It's The Winter Solstice, Charlie Brown!: "Between issuing laws prohibiting discrimination against transgendered individuals and running up a $38 billion deficit, the California Legislature mandated a three-week immersion course in Islam for all seventh-graders. A 'crash course' in Islam, you might call it, if that weren't so ironic. Students are required to adopt Muslim names, plan a trip to Mecca, play a jihad game, pray to 'Allah, the Compassionate' and to chant 'Praise to Allah! Lord of Creation!' They are encouraged to dress in Muslim garb. Students are discouraged, however, from stoning girls at the school dances, abusing their 'Jew' math teachers or blowing up their classmates. "