Textbook on Arabs removes blunder

Washington Times ^ | 4/16/04 | George Archibald

[kattracks]

An Indian tribe has forced distributors of an Arab studies guide for U.S. teachers to remove an inaccurate passage that says Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus to North America and became Algonquin chiefs.

Peter DiGangi, director of Canada's Algonquin Nation Secretariat in Quebec, called claims in the book, the "Arab World Studies Notebook," "preposterous" and "outlandish," saying nothing in the tribe's written or oral history support them.

[Mr. Mojo]

One just can't make this stuff up....

Well, actually, it appears that one can.

[Bazooka]

'Muslims were here and so in their perverted minds then America must rightfully be theirs. They will have to take this country out of our cold, dead hands!'

Not just America, they're out to get the whole world.

Well...come and get it!

[VeritatisSplendor]

No, no, it used to be Al'Khan Qinn. It was suppressed by Eurocentric white supremacist imperialists.

Mrs VS

[freeangel]

And of course, it has only been deleted in the english version.

[whereasandsoforth]

George and Martha Washington were muslims. There! I said it!

[scotiamor]

Black Muslims in Milwaukee were teaching that blacks built the pyramids, and that at one time they could fly, before the white man stole their mojo.

[BadAndy]

The Algonquins invented suicide bombing, everyone know that.

[DManA]

Someone has to say it - History is bunk.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Notice that the passage wasn't removed because it's a crock of Shiite, it was removed because it was OFFENSIVE to the Indian tribe. Is the new rule of history books that lies are ok if they support third-world cultures and don't offend another third-world culture?

[ChicagoHebrew]

Notice that the passage wasn't removed because it's a crock of Shiite, it was removed because it was OFFENSIVE to the Indian tribe. Is the new rule of history books that lies are ok if they support third-world cultures and don't offend another third-world culture?

[jokar]

Google the authors names,
http://www.meccacentric.com/002.html
Sister Salwa Abdallah
provides a brief historical backdrop from the Holy Qur'an to clearly illustrate women's liberation in Islam. She makes her point by namely drawing upon the clarity of the Qur'anic Arabic grammar and the examples of the noble prophets and servants of God, men and women. The reality of liberation is truly a gift from the Creator and it, indeed, would have to be in a revealed way of life that is for the benefit of humanity. In what way was Islam the first liberation movement for women? And after the realization of liberation, what is the key to maintaining that feeling of liberation in our daily lives?

Audrey Shabbas
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/workshops/shabbas.asp

Audrey Shabbas is the Council's Teacher Workshop Leader.

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the curriculum chosen by Sidwell Friends School for their study of Islam, and a culminating event in which the president and Mrs. Clinton and daughter Chelsea participated.

[Thommas]

..intended to help teachers who had little or no background in certain areas, and because textbooks are often insufficient.

How could America's teachers be so stupid/gullible as to not immediately recognise the utter idiocy of these Muslim assertions? Why would NEA teachers be holding forth on subjects for which they are unprepared and incapable of winnowing out illogic and prevarication?

Oh, that's right... They're Democrats, and themselves products of the government school system.

[Smokin' Joe]

"Never let your schooling interfere with your education" Mark Twain

That one got me kicked out of English class once.

[Thommas]

Just DAMN! Good point!

[Ashamed Canadian]

Well, there sure as hell aren't any Algonquin Mosques up here....and I live in Algonquin territory. If there were any Muslims, they were likely scalped quite quickly I would imagine. Preposterous.

[Ashamed Canadian]

Nope, ain't no Muslims here.....

[headsonpikes]

I believe that ancient lost Arab tribe was the Faqawi tribe, noted for their plaintive battle cry...

"We're the Faqawi!"

(Oral tradition story)

[js1138]

The Arabs are the new Soviets.

[Alouette]

"The idea that English explorers met native Indian chiefs with Muslim names in the middle of the Northeast woodlands sounds almost like something a Hollywood film writer dreamed up for a spoof,"

Actually, in the Hollywood spoof the Indian chief spoke Yiddish.

Shvartzes! Loz 'um geyen! Zay zenen tunkler fun unz...

[mabelkitty]

Yes, but we ate our enemies.
That is sooo not cool.