Your children may learn that Muslims discovered America

The American Thinker ^ | 4-16-04 | Ed Lasky

[veronica]

Your children may learn that Muslims discovered America
April 16th, 2004

A Native American tribe has forced distributors of an Arab studies guide for American teachers to remove an inaccurate and absurd passage that Muslim explorers preceded Columbus to North America, and eventually became Algonquin chiefs named Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik!
 
The Middle East Policy Council, a Washington advocacy group that promotes this curriculum to school districts in 155 U.S. cities have apparently been somewhat unresponsive and dismissive of complaints. Ridiculous as this example is, it is illustrative of a far more disturbing development: the placement of propaganda in our schools by Muslim extremist groups. As the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation pointed out in a report issued this week titled, "The Stealth Curriculum:Manipulating America's History Teachers" these efforts are intended "to use America's public school classrooms to shape the minds of tomorrow's citizens by manipulating what today's teachers introducing into the lessons of today's children"
 
The American Textbook Council  has played a leading role in resisting Arab efforts to supply propaganda to our schools, and recently published a report, "Islam and the Textbooks", by Gilbert T. Sewall, which reports this phenomenon. It can be found here.

These militants and their supporters have set their eyes on our children, and are attempting to brainwash them by supplying free textbooks which whitewash the truth regarding Muslim extremism, while promoting Arab and Palestinian political goals. These "teaching materials" also impugn and devalue America, Western nations, Israel. Judaism, and Christianity. The article, “Textbooks for Jihad,” found here is a good analysis of these developments .
 
The Council  on American-Islamic Relations, some of whose members have been "outed" as terror supporters, has an active program to supply these this type of propaganda to libraries across the nation. Naturally, like schools, the librarians are more than happy to accept inexpensive, or free, material to fill their shelves. Yet these same books and audio-visual material are filling our children's minds with lies that are tantamount to propaganda that teach hate. Efforts should be made by local activists and PTA or PTO members to scrutinize the reading lists at our "educational" institutions.

[BenLurkin]

Every day we learn the Islamicists and the leftists have more and more in common.

Brainwashing school kids has long been a priority of the democrat and leftist enemies within.

Seems they have new allies in the war against America.

[kinsman redeemer]

Not if you teach them at home.

[Piquaboy]

This is another example of how our tax money is not being wasted by our great NEA run school system. Give your tax money freely and as often as you can. It's for our chillen.

[Hodar]

Everyone knows this a false accusation; we all know that Christoper Al Ek-bar Columbus discovered the Americas with the Nina, Pinta and the Allah Akbar.... < /yes, I'm being sarcastic>

[codder too]

Be sure to see the Fordham Foundation report. It gives specific references to the Pennsylvania curriculum. A real eye opener.

Eradicating this will require STATE level action as it is so deeply intrenched at this point.

[ModelBreaker]

LOL. PC vs PC. Muslims vs American Indians.

[Gefreiter]

I highly recommend Diane Ravitch's "Language Police", which discusses this and similar topics in detail.

In a nutshell, the politics of the far left AND the far right put tremendous economic pressure, pressure that is vastly disproportionate to their true numbers, on textbook publishers to produce material satisfactory to their sensibilities.

The actual information contained therein is really secondary- tertiary, even- to the whole publishing process.

Anyway, it's a good read.

[ken5050]

It's TRUE..MUslims did discover America..about 50 years BEFORE the Vikings landed...they spent 5 years travellign up and down the east coast, but when the couldn't find ONE camel, nor one fig tree, they said the land had no promise, that no one would want to live there..

[tiamat]

You are SOoooooo funny!

;-)

[tiamat]

Everybody knows the Irish beat the Vikings....

[ken5050]

man oh man, a guy CAN'T win for trying....(g)

[socal_parrot]

Muslim explorers preceded Columbus to North America

Hey, maybe that's why pita bread resembles Indian flat bread.

[kinsman redeemer]

stop public fundind of education.

That's Grate!

[CJ Wolf]

It is true and it is also true that it is where the indians learned the practice of scalping.

[veronica]

Hey, maybe that's why pita bread resembles Indian flat bread.

If that's criteria, then Jews discovered America. ...:)

[Atomic Vomit]

Revisionist History!
Now Playing at a school near you!

The more I read about these traitors from CAIR, the more I realize they should be shipped out of here. Or sent to GITMO for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

[veronica]

BTTT...

[jolie560]

I saw a program last week broadcasted on our local "community information" cable TV channel.

The program was a panel of religious leaders in the Jacksonville FL area. One panel member was a Muslim cleric, who stated--in all seriousness--that all religions are united because Jesus Christ himself was a Muslim, as were Moses and Abraham.