JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Tennessee parents continue to voice concerns about lessons on Islam in public schools, most recently during a Johnson City Parent-Teacher Association meeting with state lawmakers.

The meeting Tuesday featured Tennessee state Reps. Matthew Hill and Micah Van Huss, who attended the Educational Forum to receive feedback from parents on education issues and discuss potential legislation for the upcoming legislative session, WYCB reports.

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Parents raised issues with state mandated lessons on Islam many feel go far beyond informing students about world history.

Hill acknowledged serious concerns about the curriculum highlighted by parents across the state, and pointed out that the Tennessee Department of Education is set to review the standards earlier than planned as a result, according to the news site.

“Normally social studies standards are reviewed every 6 years, but because of the concerns voiced by parents and teachers across the state, they’re in the second year, and they’re already review the standards four years early,” he said.

Hill said lawmakers are expected to soon vote on legislation introduced by Rep. Sheila Butt that would outlaw lessons with “religious doctrine” until at least 10th grade.

“Hill said right now, he will not support this specific bill because in it, the definition of ‘religious doctrine’ is not well defined,” according to WCYB.

That likely did not sit well with parents and members of the local religious community who have rallied for over a year against the middle school lessons on Islam, the Johnson City Press reports.

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“The Common Core curriculum is destroying America from within,” youth pastor Scott Parker told attendees at a massive gathering at Fountain of Life Bible Church last year. “They’re attempting to stunt the spiritual growth of our youth (and) they’re destroying the principles and values that the country was built on.”

According to the Press, “most of the concerns voiced were toward a section of the 7th-grade social studies curriculum that was adopted by the state board of education in June of 2013 which dealt with the Islamic World.”

Parent Craig Honeycutt said his daughter spent a month studying Islam, and it wasn’t just about the “geographic, political, economic, social and religious structures” of Muslim civilizations as called for by Tennessee education standards.

“Why do we need to give Islam four weeks?” he questioned. “If you want to teach a few days of Islam in a historic aspect, I’m fine with that. What you’re going to find … is anything but historic. It’s indoctrination, it’s religion, it’s theology, it’s philosophy, (and) it’s how to convert.”

Honeycutt’s daughter learned about the five pillars of Islam, studied the Koran, and delved into the details of the Muslim religion, he said.

“This makes me mad,” he said, according to the Press. “The first pillar of Islam is call Shahada; it is a brief prayer proclaiming the oneness of God and faith in Islam. Children … memorize the Shahada as an action which introduces them to the Islamic community. … Would you want your children doing that?”

“The Bible says this, Romans 10:9, ‘If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, ‘the lord Jesus’ and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’ Try teaching that verse and a Christian perspective in a public school and see how far you get.”