To pray or not top pray, that is the question. For many of us, prayer is the centermost part of our everyday lives. We pray at home, we pray at church, we even pray when things don't go our way. In our minds, it's alright to pray. After all, we've been around prayer all our lives, but what happens when something so defensive becomes offensive, when differences between religions come to light and the school system becomes the target of the controversy? What do we do when everyone is at each other's throats? We stick to what we know right? Wrong. When we invade our public school system, it has singled out the lone Jewish student, the class Unitarian, and the children in the minority. We make one religion dominate over the others and it shouldn't be that way. No one should have to be singled out when the issue of prayer arises in schools, but until this reality has surfaced, prayer should not be in schools.
             I understand some say that since prayer was forced out of the school system, public schools and moral values have fallen to regretful levels. Obviously, those that are in the some never went to history class. Prayer in schools in the nineteenth century was so divided that is sparked civil strife in some communtiies. During the Protestant-Catholic riots around Philadelphia in 1843, thirteen people were killed after Catholics asked for their children to be excused from mandatory religious practices. That happened then, whose to say what coukld happen now. That incident just goes to show that no one has ever been on the same page when it comes to religion.
             For the most part, many of us think with the same mind frame. We grew up in the church, believeing that God is the one true spiritual figure and that other gods were idol. Well, think about it from a Muslim's point of view. They grew up believing that Allah is the one true god. What if a Muslim said that we had to pray as he did? What would we think or better yet, what wo...