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.
They are infiltrating everywhere...and the deranged are taught procedures and techniques every Friday at the indoctrination centers called mosques. I’ve been told it will take about 50 years...
And CAIR and Grover Norquist are buddies. Was his no tax pledge part of a plot to weaken our military? If it was, it has succeeded.
You should try to find Gloria Farley’s “THey All Discovered America. For 40 years she has tracked down and photographed writing and designs on rock walls throughout the US. Some may be as old as 4,000 years, and many are at least 2,000 years old. Aside from Vikings and runes, there is Celt-Iberian, north African, phonecian(sp?) and other scripts. I don’t recall seeing any Islamic Arabic writing shown. The north African and Iberian scripts mostly predated the rise of Islam.
It’s a well known fact that muslims discovered America in 1956 AD
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