A highly disturbing phenomenon is rising in our public school system today with hardly a peep of protest from parents and from our society at large: students are being force-fed a curious and bizarre narrative that presents Islam in a glowing — and historically mangled — light, while Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition are demonized and smeared. The latest example can be found in New York’s statewide high school Regents exam where students will find points deducted from their grade if they don’t obediently regurgitate the Party-Line given to them.
Some of the test’s questions are based on specific readings from A World History: A Cultural Approach by Daniel Roselle, including this troublesome lesson: “Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that of western [sic] Christendom.” Elsewhere, students learn from Roselle how, under Christian rule, “idols, temples and other material evidences of paganism [were] destroyed.” The text also marvels at how, after being conquered by Muslims, the Spanish city of Cordoba’s “streets were solidly paved,” unlike in Paris, and lamps were set up. At the same time, the author makes pains to point out, “there was not a single public lamp in London!”
The lesson for impressionable children taking this exam is clear: Islam is historically tolerant, progressive, and admirable, whereas modern extremism has more in common with Christianity. Islamic scholar Andrew Bostom described the teaching as a “grotesque distortion of historical reality,” leaving students ignorant of how “the jihad ravages…wreaked havoc—massacre, pillage, enslavement, and deportation—upon culturally more advanced civilizations.”
The exam also includes a reading from John Esposito, a Muslim Brotherhood apologist who appeared as a witness for the defense in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) in 2008. The HLF was shut down for being a Brotherhood-constructed front to finance Hamas. He’s even promoted the extremist Brotherhood theologian, Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi. He also co-authored a book with Azzam Tamimi, who has said, “Do not call them suicide bombers, call them shuhada [martyrs]…[The Israelis] have guns, we have the human bomb. We love death, they love life.”
The particular question based on Esposito’s writing asked students about Islam’s expansion into Africa. A “correct” answer did not involve anything about forced conversion or aggression. In fact, this historical fact is considered incorrect by the exam’s standards. Answers such as: “merchants were agents of Islamization; [Islam was spread] by religious leaders forcing their views on isolated societies; [and] there was conflict between traditional priests and Muslim men of religion” are all unacceptable.
It is true Islam is a Progressive religion and the book mentions only facts. Why worry?
"…mentions only the facts." Do you mean like: “[Muhammad] began to receive revelations from the angel Gabriel, who recited God’s word to him at irregular intervals.” HAHAHAHAHAHA
Facts can be proven, yes? Regardless of your faith, to present this as fact is irresponsible. Besides, the "FACTS" show he was a pedophile, murderer and bandit. The "FACTS" contained in the Quran say that Muslims are the "Best of peoples"…Fact!?! It tells them Jews are the off spring of apes and pigs. Is this too a fact? It tells them that the stones and trees will tell them 'Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come kill him.' Is this a fact you speak of? What "facts" are you talking about?
I think you need to re-load your sarcasm filter…
YOU CAN SEE FACTS THANK YOU.
wht worry well lets see islam/muslims only want one thing our heads to be cut off woman to become totally enslaved people yo be controlled and the muslims is a tool of the one world bitchs who want the USA To disappear from this earth, not a big worry to some. USA ALL THE WAY.
The Radical left needs to be crushed, they are helping our enemies win. November is two months away!
DAG: And do you really believe that elections will stop the left and its islamization of America???
Are they teaching tolerance to the American students?
Atheists believe in no god, which is even worse than believing in the wrong one (Muhammad and his successors had atheists put to death – Bukhari 84:57).
5.38. As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power.
9.5. But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war);
By the way what was it the multiculturalists objected to in fundamental Christianity?
Or even Orthodox Judism?
everytime I read "Judea-Christian tradition/Values" I don't like it. Can't you just say WESTERN? Not everyone who agrees with you is a christian or jew. It would be nice if you all just said Western tradition/values.
You again? Your typical muddling and dissembling is par for the course.
The US was grounded on Judeo-Christian values and traditions as opposed to the ME which was based on Islam. Western values and tradtions arose from our Judeo-Christian values and heritage.
Your attempt to scrub the religious aspect of our heritage is all too transparent.
Thank you…I am a Taoist, and I get a little tired of this sort of thing myself.
Here's a pillow.
Bit late to be getting tired of over 400 years of history, don't ya think? So you Daoist, good for you. But American culture was founded on Daoist principles just as much as it was on Muslim principles.
And anyway why are bothering with politics or religion anyway, haven't your leaders emptied your head and filled your belly enough to make you forget such things?
I am not any particular religion but the FACT is that our values, ethics, culture, laws, history, etc. grew out of Judea-Christianity. I am at least very thankful to them for all that I have and I am not asking them to deny themselves due to my "sensitivities."
Grow up. No one is asking you to convert, only to give credit where credit is due. Maybe you don't like where what you have came from but in your personal queasiness about religion you assert your right to deny their contribution. Wrong!
It might be because they aren't Western, they are Biblical.
Or have you missed that historical curiosity wherein the Greco-Roman world obliterated the bloodthirsty deities of Africa and Gaul, and then converted to worshiping the King of the Jews?
The West was born out of Jewish religion; you're trying to put the cart before the horse.
today western countries are getting the taste of their own laziness, their enslavement of people, their colonial agenda and their absolute anarchy cross the world. the west wasnt unable to wipe its own poo so it brought in muslims from poor countries to be servile to them for their odd jobs. today the very same slaves have reared their heads like a goliath looking in the eyes of its erstwhile masters. time for a little payback americans and europeans! lolz
I'm a social conservative. If Islam takes over (as you gleefully hope) I'll simply pick up a couple of extra wives and live under the radar. It's the "progressives" who will be first in line at the head chopping blocks and the stoning pits. Be careful what you wish for.
indian – are you one of them moon god worshippers? The one and true moon god invented by the pedophilic rapist mohamad (aka mad mo)? The pedophilic rapist that shat the contents of the terror guide the koran following a yummy meal of camel semen and pig intestines? The terror guide that calls for the murder of everything non-muslim?
Is that you?
What an imagination. Have we been destroying to many brain cells?
Yes you figured it out, America has enslaved muslims that have come here willingly, by the droves. I know you are an idiot but I have to say this one thing because you cant think good. Why is it that everyone in the world kills themselves trying to come to America if it is such a bad place to live.
What… are you on— drugs? This is a free country. By being free, it lets in people who have evil intentions in. People who think ,their ways are the only ways, even if they are against america core values. It's time for us to stand up to the bullys (muslim terrorist) and tell them, WE AMERICANS ARE FREE AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM. Get out of America !!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA ! ! ! !
What a jerk
Tell ya what, brother, when you ditch the Western Marxism, then we can talk; if you're from the proper caste.
And by the way, how do you write lolz in Hindi?
When you walk upright and stop dragging your knuckles on the floor then you have a right to join the human race.
Obviously you are another peace loving Muslim nut job
I went o the 'print' format for this article and when it came up, Google had included an ad for Muslim women's swimming suits! I found that rather at cross purposes with this article!!!!
It is interesting that this ad does not show up in the web view just the print view.
John Esposito, Saudi Arabia’s Man-on-Campus PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPS LOCK…WHEN SHARIA LAW CREEPS UP TO YOUR DOOR KNOCKS AND YOU OPEN YOUR HOME TO IT …MUSLIMS WILL ENTER AND MURDER YOU AFTER THEY RAPE YOUR CHILDREN IN FRONT OF YOU AND THEIR MOTHER AND THEN THEY'LL RAPE BOTH OF YOU …ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ? IF THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE TIME IT'LL DEFINATELY HAPPEN TO YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN AND LINEAGE WISE IT'LL BE HAPPENING TO YOU BECAUSE YOU John Esposito HAVE BETRAYED YOUR LINEAGE BY GOING OVER TO THE DARK SIDE. YOU STUPID IDIOT John Esposito ..YOUR GRAND CHILDREN WILL BE HOWLING ALLAH O AKBAR AND WASTING THEIR LIVES AND GENETICS BECAUSE OF YOU . ISLAM IS JUST VERY BAD LUCK. LOOK AROUND. LOOK AROUND. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BESLAN/M ? LOOK IT UP EVERYBODY. PURE EVIL. PURE EVIL. PURE SHARIYA.
Time for a little bit more book burning methinks – textbooks, perhaps we could invite Guy Fawkes to light the pire.
It will be a sad day in American history if Rev, Jones is hailed as an American hero. A poorly thought out act of protest that will accomplish no good in the reality of the evil we are fighting and only serves to make our cause seem more closely aligned with our enemies is foolish. So much good could be done by fifty people, (the congregation?), tirelessly seeking to promote the election of solid conservative candidates in this coming election. Violence may come as we seek to restore our America , we should all be aware but not like this and not from the clergy.
Instead of arguing about the evils of Islam…a fact…what do we have to do to CHANGE how these books get into the hands of our children? EG…WHO decides? I don't know, do you? How come we don't know? As parents and people who care about America's future, let's truly research this issue. Screw the Islam issue…how did this happen in the first place, and how can we stop it ??
State boards of education make the lists of acceptable books and your school district chooses. Pick your battles and make them very, very public. the only way you change a school district is make what they do public and embarress them. And don't quit and don't back down. The M.O. of schools is to listen to you carefully, sympathize, empathize and DO NOTHING. because you will go away at the end of the school year either out of the district or to a different grade or school. Get Grandparents involved. They won't be worried about retaliation against their student…they don't have a student in school, and they are NOT going away at the end of the school year.
Nobody pays any attention to the local school board elections, they always have them at a separate time so more people will not vote. The local school boards are writing their own curriculum for each grade, each subject. They have dumbed down what our kids learn and they have anti American "digs" in every class. They are trying to tear down our society by teaching depravity. Get together with others or join a 912 or Tea Party group. Help members monitor the School board meetings, put pressure on them. Next election time, support conservative candidates. We can win.
Sacrifice your successful careers and other aceivements, and commit yourselves to Home Schooling your children the way you want them to be…..?
Islamic activists who want as rosy a picture of Islam painted in textbooks as possible. Sewall has written extensively on this subject, and an important series of articles can be found here at FSM. Publishers, Sewall writes, hire Islamic propagandists as ‘academic consultants’ and allow them to screen lessons. Islamists and multiculturalists on and off campus are eager to restrict what is said about Islam in public schools. Middle East centers and associations can be ideological machines, promoting Islam with a caustic anti-Western spin. Left-wing anti-American historians are most prominent in textbook authorship and indoctrination in history textbooks.
Although Islamic advocacy groups are the principle pushers of this kind of historical revisionism, our Left-wing cultural gate-keepers are active and unapologetic abettors. This is why those proponents of the anti-Jihad who feel we should take a non-partisan approach in order to attract leftists……are so sadly mistaken. As is evident on issue after issue, leftists have embraced the enemy's narrative and are – wittingly or not – enablers of the enemy's agenda.
Liberal/lefties need to be energetically fought against, associated with our enemies, discredited, and invalidated. Ours should be an ideological 'scorched-earth' policy….indispensable if we are to ever triumph against the Jihadis and their Leftist enablers.
The Progressives have already been doing it! Sharia Law Has been getting into our University Colleges and The Teaching of the Schools for quite sometime. It Is now Just being brought out into the light, For Americans today are Vulnerable and afraid to speak up due to job Loss and Positions taken Away! It is all about the Buck today! And Schools and colleges can not get Government Assistance If They do not teach Sharia Law! Well It comes down to choices and We all need to ask ourselves is it worth selling our freedom?
“multiculturalist ethos, which in theory posits that all cultures are equal”
But some are more equal than others.
For an in-depth report, see the American Textbook Council’s report, “Islam in the Classroom: What the Textbooks Tell Us”. http://www.historytextbooks.org/islam.htm
eVEry book is about America the hateful how we robbed and how all other cultures, sans white Europeans, actually were more advanced than white Europeans, but live better without all the advantages we have now
The flogging by the Left Wing Stream Media (LWSM) & PC self flagellation will continue until the closet Muslim behind it all is removed from office.
Look up "The principle of Al-Takeyya"…it is working here….
ATTENCION!BUENO DIAS;ALL religion of this world is based upon rules ;laws and regulations ;many of which are purportedly bestowed upon MAN from DEITY(THATS God for all you folks who wonder;(deity)).Jesus tried to explain that people like the RELIGIOUS Jews of his time and the Temple Police force;likened to the Temple Police force in SAUDI;SUBSTITUTE MAN-MADE LAWS FOR THE teaching of MOSES;long beleived by many to be the mediator between man and God;his simple but hated TEN COMMANDENTS SOLVING ALL PROBLEMS,IF ONLY MAN could OBEY THEM.The powers of this world do not care who brings rder;whether it is christian or moslem ;as long as they have the top power;thats all that really matters here;nothing has really changed in thousands of years;You have ;the priestshood -teachers;above them are the elite royals;the offspring of god;the greater than thou crowd;at the majority level are the untouchables;those dirty blue collar workers and trash of the world…thats all thier is……
john is right
Shame on New Yorkers. They should form a human chain to prevent the construction of the mosque at Ground Zero.
We need to have somebody other than the Saudi department of Education to write our textbooks for our children. How aboutproud Americans?
This has been going along for a long time. I remember in 1980 reading a textbook for high school students (Ihad graduated from college years before with a degree in history) It had long passages about the tolerant moslems of Spain and those nice west african leaders who went on a pilgrimage to mecca. Since my degree was in history, I knew this was wrong or unimportant. The average american does not know this, so he except this as facts. When 9/11 came everyone, including the president, thought that peaceful Islam was hyjacked by a few terrorists. They do not know that islam is violent to begin with.
OUR HISTORY Is being taken from us. all who understands what this great nation is all about can see what is happening in front of us all. this nation was made with the ideals of justice for all now just think of all the blood and the caying mother's for son that will never come home,
just think of all our fathers and our grandfathers our great grandfathers and all our heors and all the horors that our people stood up against to make this nation great and our ideals of good against evil and allow your children to sleep in peace and allow you to be free and live in a land of justice and a nation of right that can see wrong, Islam is a idea of evil that has no freedom and justice is a joke, if you can see that you can understand this government wants you dead,dead,dead and wants one thing from you your kids to be muslims monkeys and to remove our history and our hero and replace all with ideals of total muslim BS, The muslim is the one world arm of evil inside our cities and inside our heart land that is just waiting to murder and rape and kill our nation for the ideals of total control and total evil.
ISLAM IS ANATHEMA…IT HAS NEVER BEEN A RELIGION: http://www.nmatv.com/video/618/What-Islam-Is-Not
You are absolutely correct. It is not only depressing but it is a danger to America that the masses of Americans STILL think of "Islam" as "just another religion." It follows from this that people like Terry Jones are shallowly looked at as bigots. Like Geert Wilders, I do not have a problem with individual Muslims. It is Islam itself that I despise and I despise it because it is not just a religion but with Sharia Law embedded in it is a Totalitarian and Fascist ideology. Imagine for a moment a Priest, a Rabbi and a Minister. Imagine, for a moment, each one of these faiths having a LAW that if you CONVERT from any of these faiths, you can be put to death. Imagine next that if you even DECIDE to leave, you can also be put to death, branded as "an apostate." Now imagine that in the role of leader of each of these faiths, you are SANCTIONED by your religion to call for the death of "anyone who is a Threat to Catholicism, Judaism or Protestantism. In Egypt now, a man and his entire family have been sentenced to death because he converted to Christianity. He was denied permission from the Courts of Egypt to convert. Meanwhile, Obama bows to the King of Saudi Arabia: No Jews allowed, No Bibles allowed, No Churches or Synagogues allowed, no other religion but Strict Islam allowed. Periodic executions of homosexuals. And…even "Muslim Only" roads. Not long ago, Obama bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. What a message he sent in that, instead of standing up for Democracy, Freedom of Conscience. I cannot imagine Ronald Reagan bowing in a similar circumstance. Why has Obama forbid his entire staff from using the term "Islamic Terrorist?" Why is he trying to SANITIZE what is absolutely abominable???
Muslims use intimidation as one of their manipulative tactics, and soft, complacent Americans do not want to make waves. If you do not get rid of the first roaches in your home with commitment, they will take over.
Islam is a Trojan Horse filled with boa constrictors.
You are so right it is a race/political trojan horse of total evil and it is full of mass murder just look at the history of the muslim and his or her world of rape madness and total evil.
In fact most muslims live on his or her knees and death is the card that muslims alway want. The ideals of torture and agony for others who will not live under evil Is normal for any muslim to deal out with happily againsy little kids old people and any who can see evil up front.
On this day of 9-11 let us all stand side by side and say no to evil and no to the ideals of islam and the muslim enemy who are no inside the Gates of Good lands.
Life brothers and sisters
If Muslims knew the prophesies against what they are doing, they would flee Islam as if their hair is on fire. Speaking of fires, They rage over the burning of their paper book, but do not mention how they burn Churches, Bibles, flags and yes HUMANS in their lands. http://www.truthtube.tv/play.php?vid=2139&cod…
These are not the only text books. For years our Junior High in Roseville California has has similar lessons on Islam. My son brought home an outline of his hand in which the five fingers had been used to write the Five Pillars of Islalm. But, many teachers will not teach that the Pilgrims were thanking God, but the Indians on Thanksgiving; nor with they teach that they were seeking religious freedom. Our textbooks are so corrupt that they no longer teach the essential history of our people that will sustain our citizens pride and commitment to our country.
I credit such negativism in our textbooks and classrooms with completely turning my three sons off to education. When you, as a white male, are constantly being taught that your country has not stood for freedom (when it has), that white Americans did not free the slaves (when tens of thousands of white Americans humbly risked their farms to be the Underground Railroad), and that we've engaged in 'unjust' wars (fighting Nazis and Communism) than why become engaged and learn.
This MUST change. We MUST take back our educational system by dissolving the US Department of Education, state Departments of Education, and returning local control of funds, texts, and curriculum to the local community's values. America is a great nation, we must educate our young to our proud history and our economic system.
islam is:
A) destroying America
B) a rallying point for Jew haters throughout the world
C) a beacon of light for prison scum who were merely "victims of the system"
D) a malignancy not unlike Cancer
E) all of the above
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