Posted on 08/20/2008 1:03:54 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Islam is one of the most important issues of our time, but you wouldn't know it from reading a high school textbook. What students learn makes it almost impossible to understand Islam in history or the world today, much less what fuels Islam's challenge to peace and international security.
A review of leading textbooks used in New York City and nationwide reveals they deliberately misrepresent Islamic history, jihad, Islamic law (sharia), global terrorism, and more.
Thinking that jihad is "holy war" is wrong, students are told. Instead textbooks insist it is merely an effort to improve oneself and society.
"Muslims should fulfill jihad with the heart, tongue, and hand. Muslims use the heart in their struggle to resist evil. The tongue may convince others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research. Hands may perform good works and correct wrongs," chimes one popular California textbook called "History Alive!"
A widely used Houghton Mifflin textbook titled "Across the Centuries" defines jihad as an "inner struggle" to "do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil."
In spite of centuries of Islamic conquest and bloodshed, there's never any hint of aggression toward the "infidel." Illiberality and oppression are willfully ignored. "Traditionally, in Islamic countries women are not expected to read or write. Today, Muslim women are pursuing educations and new career opportunities. While Islamists call for a return to tradition, many Muslims embrace a mixture of traditional and modern ways," asserts Prentice Hall's "World History," a high school textbook popular in New York City and suburban schools.
The tinny phrase "career opportunities" aside, the word tradition or a variation of it is used over and over, yet students never get the slightest idea of what these "traditions" are or what "return to tradition" means.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
(Thinking that jihad is “holy war” is wrong, students are told. Instead textbooks insist it is merely an effort to improve oneself and society.)
Well the problem here is that the Islamofacist idea of improving society is to slaughter all infidels - read - the poor stupid kids that are recieving this less then honest education......
Im homeschooling, and yes, Im going to teach intolerance towards Islam.
According to the non-apostate Muslim, you have three choices:
Convert to Islam,
Submit to slavery,
Die.
ji·had [ji-hahd] noun 1. a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.
ji·had also je·had n. 1. Islam An individual's striving for spiritual self-perfection. or 2. Islam A Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels.
jihad noun 1. a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
jihad [(ji-hahd, ji-had)] In Islam, a holy war; a war ordained by God. The Koran teaches that soldiers who die in jihad go to heaven immediately.
Jihad Ji*had"\, Jehad \Je*had"\, n. [Ar. jih[=a]d.] (Moham.) A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.
There are a lot of dictionary writers who need to read the new improved history books. Without exception, EVERY dictionary I checked, paper or online, had the wrong definition for "jihad". Not only that, but the Islamic users of the word also seem to use the wrong definition of the word all too often. Even Osama bin Laden, who should know better, uses the word incorrectly when he praises the 9/11 attacks and calls for continued jihad against western crusaders.
Fortunately, I have a simple solution to the problem. We need to send all these authors to meet with bin Laden and his people. I imagine they could come to a clear understanding on which definition matches the real world ... and do so quickly enough to make the authors' heads spin.
While I don’t go into Muslim texts which are there to support my treatis.Whoever is interested in this subject is welcome to read http://www.theusmat.com/islamandfreewill.htm which explains the problem
“Across the Centuries” defines jihad as an “inner struggle” to “do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil.”
Sounds like the word ‘diet’ would work equally well.
The authors of these new textbooks could be joined by Obama who will talk to Iran and come to a mutual understanding with them as well!
The PC/diversity crowd for some reason think it makes them “intellectual” or “ethical” when they spew such nonsense.
A required reading of Ali Sina’s Understanding Muhhamad: A Psychobiography would more than negate anything taught in any pc textbook.
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Posted on 08/20/2008 6:53:30 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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Okay, I get it now.
"Islamic Jihad" isn't a terrorist organization, it's a social services agency.
GK Chesterton, 1917
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