WESTMORELAND, Tenn. – Tennessee grandfather and decorated military veteran Herb Mays is taking a stand for what he believes in.

And Mays doesn’t think it’s right that students at Westmoreland Middle School study Islam as part of a World Religions class, while the Bible is shunned, WTVC reports.

Mays’ granddaughter attended Westmoreland Middle School, but the family is now moving her to another school.

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“We don’t teach the Bible. We can’t carry the Bible anymore to school, we can’t pray in school, so I’m upset that the seventh-grade social studies class is learning about the Quran,” Mays told the news site.

“It says Allah is the creator. He’s the god who created us all. I don’t believe Allah created the heavens and the earth, so I have a problem with this being taught to children in the school,” he said.

Mays is the recipient of a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for his brave service during the Vietnam War, according to ABC News 4.

Curriculum available through the state website online includes segments for sixth-graders on the Old and New testaments, as well as other Christian texts. A state spokesman told ABC News 4 world religion studies are required for seventh-grade students, but individual districts craft the details of the curriculum.

Mays’ 13-year-old granddaughter said the curriculum in Sumner County’s Westmoreland Middle School made them uncomfortable.

“We had to learn the five pillars of Islam and their beliefs and practices and what they have to do an all what they believe in,” the straight-A student, whose name was withheld, told ABC News 4. “It didn’t feel right doing this. It just made me feel it wasn’t right doing all this stuff and learning what they believe in because it’s not what I know and it just didn’t feel right.”

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Mays, who is also a preacher, told WZTV he doesn’t think school officials should require students to learn about the Quran without also learning about the Bible.

“Yes, I think it’s a radical stand, I really do. But I stand up for what I believe,” Mays said. “I think what’s wrong with the world today is that good people don’t stand up and evil prevails. And so I’m just making a stand.”

Many commenters online agreed with Mays.

“If you can’t teach the Bible and God, then it is not right to teach any religion,” Nancy James posted.

“They have no business teaching the history of any religion at all. If parents want their children to know about other religions, it is their job to teach them, not our school system where the KJV Bible is not allowed,” Wanda Adams added.

Other folks thought Mays was a nut.

“The preacher is either being untruthful or he misunderstands the rules. You can carry your western Bible to school. You can also pray at school if you want. What you can’t do is force your beliefs on others,” Zephen Wshngtn wrote.

“Teaching religion in a literary context or as a part of history is not the same as preaching it and trying to force those beliefs on others. Teaching about the various world religions is not the same as ‘preaching’ and ‘praying,’” Wshngtn added.