A dead mouse on the sawdust trail

Washington Times ^ | 8/20/02 | Wesley Pruden

[kattracks]

Americans are instinctively nervous about talking about religious faith in secular settings, and we're particularly squeamish about listening to criticism of the faith of others (unless we're talking about evangelical Christianity, and then anything goes).

The editors of the New York Times, a citadel of tolerance for everyone who agrees with its editorial page, are angry not only at George W. Bush for trying to rid the world of Saddam Hussein, but at North Carolinians who are upset at having to pay for what they suspect is the attempted religious indoctrination of their children at the University of North Carolina. The university wants to explain the religion with a bowdlerized version of Islam on the eve of September 11.

[livius]

Probably no one would complain about an objective study of comparative religions, but devoting a whole course to Islam and using a text written and promoted by an Islamic advocacy group is a whole different matter. That was what the UNC was doing.

The Muslim pressure groups have been very successful at getting their "texts" into American classrooms. They were using one in the California public school system for a while that not only was virtually a proseltysing manual for Islam, but contained really awful comments about Jews. It was recently dropped, but only after an outcry from parents. These groups have big bankrolls and spend lots of money getting school systems and universities to accept their materials.

[Elsie]

These groups have big bankrolls and spend lots of money getting school systems and universities to accept their materials.

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Hey! You can't talk about the NEA and the US Gov't like this!!!!!!