[UPDATE: Turns out this was going on last year too. See this 2007 blog. It also suggests either the organization's leaders are liars, or the organization's volunteers are actually violating their own standards in addition to the law and common decency.]

[UPDATE II: Given that the 2007 article suggests that this is all against the organization's stated policies, in addition to reporting problems to the Park Administration as outlined below...

Turns out the CEF is denying any connection with this practice...see their statement at the bottom.]

Would like to pass along something from the Park Slope Parents List. Seems a fundamentalist Christian group is proselytizing kids in playgrounds without parent's permission:

In 2005 there was much sound a fury about a series of Danish Cartoons portraying the prophet Mohammed. The bottom line was that several Danish cartoonists drew cartoons including the prophet as part of a newspaper's publicity stunt. Two of the cartoons were making fun of the newspaper's publicity stunt itself. Two were, arguably, based on racial stereotypes. At least one specifically addressed Western stereotypes of Muslims. In other words, the cartoons were a mixed bag of attitudes towards Islam and the West's attitudes towards Islam.

The overwhelming reaction in the Muslim world was of outrage, often with no real knowledge of the actual cartoons.

This controversy has come back. One of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard, was targeted for death by Muslim terrorists. This plot was stopped by the Danish police. In response to the terrorist threat 11 Danish newspapers reprinted Kurt Westergaard's original cartoon...further pissing off Muslim nations.

Again...much sound and fury, signifying nothing.