Dan over at Riehl World View thinks Google will stumble due to non-existent customer service.

I agree that Google’s service is pretty bad, but their products are free. And sugesting that GMail only having 2.5% of the market share of email is a bad thing is, in my opinion, missing a key point. 2.5% of all email? In less than a year? Getting people to switch email addresses at this point in the evolution of the internet is actually a pretty big accomplishment. (Maybe that’s not what “the market” means, it may be referring to web mail). I suggest the reason is that all the junk mail is going to the old email accounts, inflating the numbers. :-)

The ninth circuit court has ruled that it is ok for public school kids to be put through a role play that recites prayers, memorizes professions of faith, and chanting praises to god at the teacher’s direction.

You might be surprised at this news, until you realize that the god they endorse is Allah.

In our brave new schools, Johnny can’t say the pledge, but he can recite the Quran. Yup, the same court that found the phrase “under God” unconstitutional now endorses Islamic catechism in public school.

In a recent federal decision that got surprisingly little press, even from conservative talk radio, California’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it’s OK to put public-school kids through Muslim role-playing exercises, including:

Reciting aloud Muslim prayers that begin with “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful . . . .”

Memorizing the Muslim profession of faith: “Allah is the only true God and Muhammad is his messenger.”

Chanting “Praise be to Allah” in response to teacher prompts.

Professing as “true” the Muslim belief that “The Holy Quran is God’s word.”

Giving up candy and TV to demonstrate Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

Designing prayer rugs, taking an Arabic name and essentially “becoming a Muslim” for two full weeks.

IBD thinks it’s a national security issue.

So what? By infiltrating our public school system, the Saudis hope to make Islam more widely accepted while converting impressionable American youth to their radical cause. Recall that John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” was a product of the California school system. What’s next, field trips to Mecca?

This case is critical not just to our culture but our national security. It should be brought before the Supreme Court, which has outlawed prayer in school. Let’s see what it says about practicing Islam in class. It will be a good test for the bench’s two new conservative justices.

Michelle adds:

Meanwhile, creeping sharia in the public schools continues apace. Seattle is preparing to consider a proposal to accomodate Muslim student prayers.

Related: Kids in Kentucky are fighting to recite the Lord’s Prayer at commencement.