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Textbook on Arabs removes blunder
Washington Times ^ | 4/16/04 | George Archibald

Posted on 04/15/2004 11:28:01 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

An Indian tribe has forced distributors of an Arab studies guide for U.S. teachers to remove an inaccurate passage that says Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus to North America and became Algonquin chiefs.

Peter DiGangi, director of Canada's Algonquin Nation Secretariat in Quebec, called claims in the book, the "Arab World Studies Notebook," "preposterous" and "outlandish," saying nothing in the tribe's written or oral history support them.


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To: kattracks
One just can't make this stuff up....

Well, actually, it appears that one can.

21 posted on 04/16/2004 1:01:16 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: weegee
'Muslims were here and so in their perverted minds then America must rightfully be theirs. They will have to take this country out of our cold, dead hands!'

Not just America, they're out to get the whole world.

Well...come and get it!
22 posted on 04/16/2004 1:54:14 AM PDT by Bazooka (Nice words are seldom true, and vice versa.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
No, no, it used to be Al'Khan Qinn. It was suppressed by Eurocentric white supremacist imperialists.

Mrs VS
23 posted on 04/16/2004 6:18:14 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: kattracks
And of course, it has only been deleted in the english version.
24 posted on 04/16/2004 6:22:14 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: kattracks
George and Martha Washington were muslims. There! I said it!
25 posted on 04/16/2004 6:22:17 AM PDT by whereasandsoforth (tagged for migratory purposes only)
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To: kattracks
Black Muslims in Milwaukee were teaching that blacks built the pyramids, and that at one time they could fly, before the white man stole their mojo.
26 posted on 04/16/2004 6:49:54 AM PDT by scotiamor
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To: scotiamor
The Algonquins invented suicide bombing, everyone know that.
27 posted on 04/16/2004 7:36:54 AM PDT by BadAndy (Unjustly banned from Lucianne (now posting in the big leagues))
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To: kattracks
Someone has to say it - History is bunk.
28 posted on 04/16/2004 8:30:10 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
Notice that the passage wasn't removed because it's a crock of Shiite, it was removed because it was OFFENSIVE to the Indian tribe. Is the new rule of history books that lies are ok if they support third-world cultures and don't offend another third-world culture?
29 posted on 04/16/2004 9:09:02 AM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
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To: DManA
Notice that the passage wasn't removed because it's a crock of Shiite, it was removed because it was OFFENSIVE to the Indian tribe. Is the new rule of history books that lies are ok if they support third-world cultures and don't offend another third-world culture?
30 posted on 04/16/2004 9:09:10 AM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
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To: kattracks
Google the authors names,
http://www.meccacentric.com/002.html
Sister Salwa Abdallah
provides a brief historical backdrop from the Holy Qur'an to clearly illustrate women's liberation in Islam. She makes her point by namely drawing upon the clarity of the Qur'anic Arabic grammar and the examples of the noble prophets and servants of God, men and women. The reality of liberation is truly a gift from the Creator and it, indeed, would have to be in a revealed way of life that is for the benefit of humanity. In what way was Islam the first liberation movement for women? And after the realization of liberation, what is the key to maintaining that feeling of liberation in our daily lives?

Audrey Shabbas
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/workshops/shabbas.asp

Audrey Shabbas is the Council's Teacher Workshop Leader.

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the curriculum chosen by Sidwell Friends School for their study of Islam, and a culminating event in which the president and Mrs. Clinton and daughter Chelsea participated.

31 posted on 04/16/2004 9:29:44 AM PDT by jokar (On line data base http://www.trackingthethreat.com/db/index.htm)
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To: kattracks
..intended to help teachers who had little or no background in certain areas, and because textbooks are often insufficient.

How could America's teachers be so stupid/gullible as to not immediately recognise the utter idiocy of these Muslim assertions? Why would NEA teachers be holding forth on subjects for which they are unprepared and incapable of winnowing out illogic and prevarication?

Oh, that's right... They're Democrats, and themselves products of the government school system.

32 posted on 04/16/2004 10:43:39 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: Psycho_Bunny
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education" Mark Twain

That one got me kicked out of English class once.

33 posted on 04/16/2004 10:45:47 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (C'est la guerre.)
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To: ChicagoHebrew
Just DAMN! Good point!
34 posted on 04/16/2004 10:47:00 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: kattracks
Well, there sure as hell aren't any Algonquin Mosques up here....and I live in Algonquin territory. If there were any Muslims, they were likely scalped quite quickly I would imagine. Preposterous.
35 posted on 04/16/2004 11:11:37 AM PDT by Ashamed Canadian
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To: Ashamed Canadian
Nope, ain't no Muslims here.....


36 posted on 04/16/2004 11:22:24 AM PDT by Ashamed Canadian
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To: kattracks
I believe that ancient lost Arab tribe was the Faqawi tribe, noted for their plaintive battle cry...

"We're the Faqawi!"

(Oral tradition story)
37 posted on 04/16/2004 11:29:10 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: kattracks
The Arabs are the new Soviets.
38 posted on 04/16/2004 11:33:09 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: kattracks
"The idea that English explorers met native Indian chiefs with Muslim names in the middle of the Northeast woodlands sounds almost like something a Hollywood film writer dreamed up for a spoof,"

Actually, in the Hollywood spoof the Indian chief spoke Yiddish.

Shvartzes! Loz 'um geyen! Zay zenen tunkler fun unz...

39 posted on 04/16/2004 11:34:48 AM PDT by Alouette (In every generation they rise up to destroy us, but the Holy One saves us from their hands)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Yes, but we ate our enemies.
That is sooo not cool.
40 posted on 04/16/2004 11:37:28 AM PDT by mabelkitty (John Kerry is the sad clown of life.)
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