A school district in Massachusetts has been forced to apologize after video revealed students participating in Muslim prayers during a field trip to a local mosque.

The incident occurred in May when a social studies class from Wellesley Middle School toured the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, one of the largest mosques in the Northeast.

Parents were told their children would be learning about the architecture of a mosque and they would be allowed to observe a prayer service. But the students wound up being given a lecture on the Prophet Muhammad, and some boys participated in a midday prayer service.

The field trip was videotaped by a parent whose child was on the trip. At one point, the video shows a spokeswoman for the mosque telling students, “You have to believe in Allah, and Allah is the one God, the only one worthy of worship, all forgiving, all merciful.“

In other words, the students were sent the mosque where they were to be indoctrinated. In the meantime, their parents were lied to and their rights violated. But the outrage goes further. See, the mosque’s leadership decided to continue the propaganda:

The sixth graders were also reportedly told that jihad is a personal spiritual struggle that has nothing to do with holy war, and girls on the field trip were told that Islam is pro-women.

“Islam was actually very advanced in terms of recognizing women’s rights,” an unidentified mosque spokeswoman says in the video. “At the time of the Prophet Muhammad, women were allowed to express their opinions and vote. In this country, women didn’t gain that right until less than a hundred years ago.”

Islam good, America bad. Because when you think of women’s rights, you think of the Koran and Muslim nations it has inspired.

And there’s more:

He said mosque officials separated the group by gender and invited male students to join traditional Muslim prayers. The video shows young boys bowing and prostrating themselves – with their heads touching the floor. At no point during the event did any school teacher or school official intervene.

It took the Wellesley School District four months to apologize for the incident.

“I extend my sincere apologies for the error that occurred and regret the offense it may have caused,” Superintendent Bella Wong wrote in a statement provided to FOX News Radio. “In the future, teachers will provide more clear guidance to students to better define what is allowed to fulfill the purpose of observation.”

Wong explained the field trip was part of a course titled, “Enduring Beliefs and the World Today.” It included a visit to a synagogue and a mosque – along with a gospel music concert and a meeting with representatives of the Hindu religion.

Can you imagine the outrage if a Christian or Jewish leader told students that their God was the only true God, and that the students must believe in him? Or worse yet, if the same leaders had asked students to participate in prayers or had presented communion? All without parental notification? The ACLU would be all over this.

But instead we have a situation where a school district teamed up with a mosque to indoctrinate children. And therefore it takes four months for the district to issue an apology, and only after controversy arose from a video recording of the event.