Texas Board of Education Attacks Non-Existent Pro-Islamic Textbooks
Thursday, September 23, 2010
In an effort to remove what’s not really there, the Texas Board of Education wants to rid “pro-Islamic bias” from school textbooks that don’t contain such material.
“There’s a lot of people that think that, and I think rightfully so, that the key to terrorism comes from this jihad philosophy,” Randy Rives, a conservative activist who ran unsuccessfully for the board, told the Texas media. “'We want to make sure there’s not something in our textbooks to influence our young people’s minds that takes them toward a path we don’t want them to go,” meaning jihad.
According to the Texas Freedom Network, the textbooks that conservatives claim contain “politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture and stigmas on Christian civilization” and “sanitized definitions of' jihad” haven’t been used in the state’s schools for seven years. Although current textbooks mention the atrocities committed by Christians during the Crusades, they also call attention to massacres carried out by Muslims led by Tamerlane
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Texas Board Looks to Ban ‘Pro-Islamic Bias’ from School Books (by Stephen Webster, Raw Story)
The Texas State Board of Education: Now Promoting Islamophobia? (by Michael Zimmerman, Huffington Post)
A Claim of Pro-Islam Bias in Textbook (by James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times)
What Are the Facts about the State Board of Education’s Anti-Islam Resolution? (Texas Freedom Network) (pdf)
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