[Unknowing]

All too often it seems that public school curricula are comprised of lessons in multiculturalism, with a focus on simplicity and "acceptance."

It seems as if many various demographic groups are isolating themselves away from meaningful common commitments, which have in the past generated American culture. The idea that we are all Americans, doing things the "American way" has been discarded by so many 'new ille-grants.'

If the new illegrants really did love America, and by their conduct really did assimilate our history, law, and traditions, then America and a lot of other nations would enjoy a great benefit.

[Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS]

Islam and the Textbooks surveys content in seven widely adopted world history textbooks used across the country in grades seven through twelve. It reviews coverage of jihad, sharia, slavery, status of women, and terrorism, comparing lesson content to prominent histories and recognized sources. It focuses on the high school textbooks adopted in Texas in 2002.

This review faults world history textbooks on one of the most complicated and important subjects teachers face in classrooms today. What may seem on the surface to be a minor curriculum controversy has far-reaching implications for civic education and the promotion of American constitutional values. Its main conclusions include: (1) world history textbooks hold Islam and other non-Western civilizations to different standards than those that apply to the West, (2) domestic educational activists, Muslim and non-Muslim, insist at once on harsh perspectives for the West while gilding the record of non-Western civilizations, (3) Islamic pressure groups and their allies seek to suppress critical analysis of Islam inside and outside classrooms, and distorted textbook content is one symptom of this phenomenon, and (4) publishers respond to pressure groups on account of political expediency and sales. As a result, they are giving American children and their teachers a misshapen view of the past and a false view of the future. The American Textbook Council - Islam and the Textbooks

"Think Like a Muslim" Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American 12-year-olds to convert to Islam?

"'Become a Muslim Warrior.'"Militant Islamic lobbying groups want Islam taught as the true religion, not as an academic subject. They take advantage of this indulgence, exerting pressure on school systems and on textbook writers. Not surprisingly, Interaction Publishers thanks two militant Islamic organizations by name (the Islamic Education and Information Center and the Council on Islamic Education) for their "many suggestions."