What are US students learning about Islam?

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 4-22-09 | Gary Bauer

[Wolf13]

Washington - "History is not history unless it is the truth." – Abraham Lincoln

Most Americans understand history as an objective accounting of past events. In recent years, however, textbook publishers have come under increasing criticism for rewriting history. Claims are presented as facts while controversial material is whitewashed or omitted.

Today these trends are quite apparent in the way public school history books address Islam. In his 2008 study "Islam in the Classroom: what the textbooks tell us," Gilbert Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council (ATC), reviewed 10 of the nation's most widely used junior and senior high school history textbooks. The results should disturb anyone interested in conveying to our children a truthful history of the religion whose extreme adherents drive so many of today's tragic headlines.

At a time when America is locked in a battle of ideas with Islamic extremists and other enemies of freedom, accurate knowledge is indispensable. Yet, Sewall's findings underscore how political correctness is distorting the next generation's understanding of this battle.

[Slapshot68]

Far more than they’re learning about Christianity...you know, other than the Inquisition, et al.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

What is needed is daily showings in classrooms of American beheadings by terrorists!

[combat_boots]

Some disticts have students ‘pretend’ to be moslems for an entire week.

[jazminerose]

How do they handle the genital mutilations & beheadings?

[rom]

What they learn:

Islam is a religion of peace.
Christianity is a religion of sexist homophobes.

[edcoil]

They don’t, they bring in a local muslim women and she tells them the wonderful world of being muslim.

My 7th grade son spent a week on it and zero on anything else.

[FreepShop1]

Click the link and contact the publishers and schools that use them. Get involved. The content being taught is disastrous.

[combat_boots]

No idea. I just remember seeing a teacher who was making copies.

[pandoraou812]

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[BarbM]

In college, my Lebanese Christan professor taught this story: One day the king got drunk and had sex with a pig in the public square. this is why to this day mooslems don't drink nor eat pork.

Truth.

[dfwgator]

Everything we needed to learn we learned on 9/11.

[jazminerose]

Oh, it’s true.

Parents have got to get involved and find out what their kids are being indoctrinated with. Brigitte Gabriel’s organization can help with that. She grew up in Lebanon during the 1980s & managed to escape the Religion of Peace.

http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/profile.asp

[subterfuge]

Are the schools teaching that there are no gays in the muslim world?

[puppypusher]

Nothing I hope.All of the problems that have occurred in the world in the last 35 years have been caused by Islamic countries or Islamic actors.Thats Not going to change.

[metmom]

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[cyclotic]

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