An ex-Marine officer, who has a child studying in a Maryland high school, has been barred from the institution following an intense argument with the school authorities over an assignment on Islam.

Kevin Wood, a former Marine who served in Iraq, shared with MyFoxDC.com that La Plata High School banned him from its premises due to a heated argument he had with the school's vice principal regarding his daughter's assignment.

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In his statement, Wood admitted to going to the school to question the rationale behind his daughter's history homework that instructed her to provide a list of the advantages people could derive from Islam. The former Marine disclosed that his discussion with the high school's vice principal became extremely animated that he had been ordered out of the premises and banned from the school property.

"[Wood] was threatening to cause a disruption or possible disruption at the school," explained a district spokesperson regarding the decision to eject and ban the Iraq veteran from the high school.

For his part, Wood did not refute that his argument with the school authority became intense. However, the ex-Marine asserted that his decision to challenge the assignment stemmed from his desire to defend the Constitution. Wood also pointed out that teaching or preaching a specific religion at a public school is not allowed.

"I have witnesses that have said I did not threaten anybody," Wood said to the station. "I don't force my religious views on them, so don't force your religious views on me," he added.

In response to this concern, the high school decided to allow Wood's eleventh-grade daughter to go to the library during the allotted time for the disputed subject. However, La Plata High School insisted that the assignment was not given to promote a religion. School officials claimed that it was required to teach the students world history.

Melissa Wood, the wife of the ex-Marine, also questioned how teaching about Islam is considered a lesson in world history while discussing Christianity would have been perceived in a different manner.

"We cannot discuss our Ten Commandments in school but they can discuss Islam's Five Pillars?" she asked.

One of the questions included in the three-page homework was ""How did Muslim conquerors treat those they conquered?" In an information gathered by the aforementioned website, the appropriate response to that number would be "With tolerance, kindness and respect."

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