Textbook on Arabs removes blunder

Washington Times ^ | 4/16/04 | George Archibald

[kattracks]

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.

[rogue yam]

"Blunder"?

[lonevoice]

Unbelievable!

[JOAT]

Makes one wonder how many more "inaccuracies" are out there in print being fed to the little mush heads in government schools.

[First_Salute]

Kwanzalquin Tribe - happy holidays.

[NewHampshireDuo]

This Arab studies notebook must be competing with the Portland Baseline Essays for ethnic PC studies.

[Chad Fairbanks]

What a crock of poop. If I were Algonkian, I'd be ticked. Glad I'm Iroquois - and thus superior ;0)

[dts32041]

Ensign Chekhov, has become a muslim.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Where are da nuclear wessels?

[Psycho_Bunny]

4.  To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

-Marcus Aurelius, "To Himself" (Meditations)

[BfloGuy]

What a John F'in Kerry hoot!

"How could we expect them to handle complicated and emotionally charged subjects like the Holocaust and figure out what lessons to learn about it? ..."

Umm, we used to expect that the teacher's education would have taken care of that.

[me_newswire]

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[tessalu]

I doubt that lying will hurt their reputation any.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

If the lefties spoon feeding multi-clutterist nonsense to America's children have the gall to float something this egregious past our noses, Heaven knows what else is in that book. May they be done in by their own lies!

[weegee]

If I were Algonkian, I'd be ticked. Glad I'm Iroquois - and thus superior

You're Iraqi???

[RussianConservative]

Wait till they find that methane on Mars is from Arab Martian pile of bs.

[weegee]

The "revived" public Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans lists:

Hysterical/Historical Revisionism PING

[Bazooka]

That's not the first time they try to make us believe their lies.
Remember the "Grand Mufti of Australia", named Sheikh Taj Aldin Alhilali, with his claim that the Australian Aboriginals were actually a lost Afghan tribe, so therefore Australia is actually an islamic country that should be under muslim rule?

Yeah, right.

[Ruth A.]

I was thinking along those lines: 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!

[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!

I haven't seen an Imam come outright and say that Muslims came here "first" but I have seen an Imam claim that the riches and bounty of America belong to "muslims" because God put it all here for them.