Posted on 03/07/2006 3:40:46 PM PST by Fair Go
Geee...only a thousand years of civilization between the two.
I guess in a thousand years, the terrorists of the day can say they were no worse than the Islamofascists of the 21st century???
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There's a difference between an army fighting in a war and a terrorist committing mass murder against civilians. Anyone writing a history book should be forced to know this.
The muslim armies they confronted were a long way from home.
I'm not going to criticize the inquisition. I'm just curious as to what "working with divided families" means in the context it's presented.
I don't see any equivalence between the two at all. Anyone who does, I think, has a distorted and dangerous view of history.
I wonder how the book would compare the sacking of Rome and St Peters Cathedral by the Muslims? Or would it even mention that event at all, and pretend that the Crusades were the first time that Muslims and Christians came into conflict.
General manager of the schools division at John Wiley, Peter van Noorden, denied the textbook makes a connection between the Crusades and September 11.
He said the section was intended to encourage discussion and prompt students to think more broadly about history. "It's very specifically put at the end of the section as a challenge for students to consider ... to analyse things from different perspectives,"
Amazing how it's all now about "challenging students" they
must get all the same talking points...
It is highly unethical for a teacher to idoctrinate students. The best way to get them to think is to present them with the facts as objectively as possible. If the students must be given a point of view, they are entitled to all points of view.
He probably doesn't remember that the muslims were in southern France 300 years before the French were in Jerusalem.
Tell that to the NEA, FTU, and the DNC.
Tell that to the NEA, FTU, and the DNC.
The author[s] got past the long term Islamic invasion and occupation of Christian lands, did they?
Every time the left open their mouths with some misrepresentation of history, the truth needs to be hammered home. The left are misusing history to make outrageous allegations and in the process are aiding terrorism.
It's an old, old trick to disguise your argument in the form of a "question." Anyone who doubts this need only listen to any White House press conference and hear the liberal polemics that aren't really questions even though they end with a question mark.
Probably when asked the importance of Martel, the response would be "champagne".
"Those who destroyed the World Trade Center (sic) are regarded as terrorists. Might it be fair to say that Crusaders who attacked the Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem were also terrorists?"
No. It might not 'be fair'.
(What sort of language is that?)
Teachers, Ask your class: Would it 'be fair' if a bunch of islamonuts set explosives in your schoolroom now, raped children at gunpoint, killed and wounded many, gave them no water, let them dehydrate...and left over 300 dead?
Because allah created the world for islam and everyone else deserves to be dead?
Well at least we know one thing. There are 100 schools in Victoria where the teachers are idiots.
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