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Your children may learn that Muslims discovered America
The American Thinker ^
| 4-16-04
| Ed Lasky
Posted on 04/16/2004 7:29:42 AM PDT by 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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:29:44 AM PDT
by
veronica
To: veronica
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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:32:28 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: veronica
Not if you teach them at home.
To: veronica
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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:33:51 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
To: veronica
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>
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:37:09 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: veronica
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.
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: veronica
LOL. PC vs PC. Muslims vs American Indians.
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:41:24 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
To: veronica
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..
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:41:33 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
To: Hodar
You are SOoooooo funny!
;-)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:41:34 AM PDT
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: ken5050
Everybody knows the Irish beat the Vikings....
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:42:37 AM PDT
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: tiamat
man oh man, a guy CAN'T win for trying....(g)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:43:24 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
To: veronica
Muslim explorers preceded Columbus to North AmericaHey, maybe that's why pita bread resembles Indian flat bread.
To: sanatanDharmi
stop public fundind of education.That's Grate!
To: ken5050
It is true and it is also true that it is where the indians learned the practice of scalping.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:54:28 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: socal_parrot
Hey, maybe that's why pita bread resembles Indian flat bread.If that's criteria, then Jews discovered America. ...:)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:55:46 AM PDT
by
veronica
("Kicking butt is mandatory - taking names is optional." - US Navy)
To: veronica
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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:57:18 AM PDT
by
Atomic Vomit
(The Bering Sea - where men still rule and always will. Go to http://www.volcanicfishermen.com)
To: Atomic Vomit
BTTT...
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:57:55 AM PDT
by
veronica
("Kicking butt is mandatory - taking names is optional." - US Navy)
To: veronica
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.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:58:00 AM PDT
by
jolie560
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