Classroom Jihad: What our children's textbooks say about Islam

NRO ^ | 2/7/2003 | John J Miller

[Utah Girl]

Ping

[Captainpaintball]

America's Epitaph: "They Were A TOLERANT People"

[Paul Atreides]

Can you imagine the howling by the publishers if Christians put as much pressure on them as have the Muslims?

[KarlInOhio]

Did they have any kind words to say about the misunderstood Austrian painter who was a survivor of a poison gas attack and worked on improving German national self-esteem?

[vikingchick]

I know a friend's kid (a 10-year-old) who was assigned an extra credit project to build a miniature mosque. We're all waiting for the follow-up assignment to build a miniature cathedral....NOT.

The school is in the Bay Area, of course.

[demnomo]

Another reason to homeschool. A year and a half before 9/11, my homeschooled son and I studied Islam. We read the Koran, Hadiths and looked at Islamic history from many sources. What we learned scared us somewhat, but never did we believe that Muslims were a real danger to the West or to anyone who refused to believe that Islam is "a religion of peace," and "abhors" violence. 9/11, with it's ghoulish pictures of Muslims gleefully celebrating and dancing in the streets over the event changed my way of thinking forever. Islam spawned the terrorists and their millions of groupie admirers.

The concept of Islamic jihad and world-wide subjugation of citizens via barbaric, 7th Century sharia law is the ultimate goal of every "devout" Muslim. This baloney about jihad being a "personal struggle" is a damn LIE. Islamic rhetoric and LIES no longer fool me. I find it difficult to trust any practitioner of Islam. Not when their Koran exhorts the believers to DECEIVE, cheat, loot from, extort, rape, enslave and/or murder anyone who refuses to kow tow or convert to Islam...

[Paul Atreides]

For the NEA, Islam has the ABC appeal: Anything But Christianity. They love to go back centuries into the past and squawk about The Crusades, yet cannot criticize what Muslims do in the present.

[KC_Conspirator]

Make sure that little boy does his project with the utmost detail and includes a room for making explosives and miniature chemical suits.

[demnomo]

LOL! So true.

[Paul Atreides]

Fox News is about to show a segment on this subject.

[savedbygrace]

Homeschool.

[Kuksool]

Liberals will put a stop to the "Classroom Jihad" if kids should start uttering anti-gay verses from the Quran.

[valkyrieanne]

This isn't just a public school phenomenon. Calvert, a home school program based in Baltimore, MD, that's widely regarded among homeschoolers, uses Across the Centuries as its seventh grade history textbook. (click on "curriculum by grade," go to seventh grade, scroll down & look on the sidebar.)

[valkyrieanne]

See reply #14. Calvert Home Study program also uses this textbook (I think they use it in their day school as well.) Of course homeschoolers don't have to use Calvert, but caveat emptor.

[B Knotts]

It boggles my mind that any homeschooler would choose to use the same distorted curriculum as the public schools they are purportedly trying to avoid.

[Stavka2]

Oh, don't panic, the US will soon learn what it's like to have their own Chechnya or Intafada....since they like so much to criticize other nations' responses to Islam....will be fun to watch the PC US reactions.

[Stavka2]

the West or to anyone who refused to believe that Islam is "a religion of peace," and "abhors" violence. 9/11, with it's ghoulish pictures of Muslims gleefully celebrating and dancing in the streets over the event changed my way of thinking forever. Islam spawned the terrorists and their millions of groupie admirers

Only underscores what I said earlier. When the Chechins and Al Quids bombed 3 Russian apartment buildings and a parade, the US self righteously stepped forward and condemned the barbarians in Moscow for daring to make noises of bombing the loveable Tailban. I feel great pain for the people that died during 911 but no sympathy for the US government which was stupid and near sighted enough to ignore everythiing in it's self righteousness while killing Orthodox Christians and arming and training Islamocists the world over.

[Arpege92]

These schools are teaching religion.....isn't that against the law?

[Utah Girl]

Only if its Christian religion.