Thursday, May 3, 2012

Report: Public School Textbooks Whitewashing Islam

Here's a subset of civilization jihad: education jihad.  It's also another case of Political Correctness and multiculturalism run amok. The West is being systematically and very successufly being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherthood through it's offshoots like CAIR and MAS.

FROM CBN.COM:

Report: Public School Textbooks Whitewashing Islam

Erick Stakelbeck CBN News Terrorism Analyst

WASHINGTON -- Through the years, American public schools have taught students that Nazism, communism, and other totalitarian ideologies should be opposed.

But when it comes to the current war with Islamic jihadists, public schools are taking a much different course.

According to a new report, students are getting a white-washed version of what our enemies believe, and it could have dangerous implications for America's future.

Sugar-coating Islam

For students in America's middle and high schools, 9/11 is a distant memory. Some were still toddlers when the World Trade Center towers fell.

But if they're looking for answers in their history textbooks about who attacked the United States and why, they may be disappointed.

One 2003 world geography textbook widely used in public schools gives the following explanation for the 9/11 attacks:

"On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes, crashing two of them into New York City's World Trade Center and the third into the Pentagon. The devastation and loss of so many lives made the United States firmly resolved to rid the world of terrorism."

Guy Rodgers, a former public school teacher who is now executive director of ACT! for America Education, noted that while the text mentions terrorism or a terrorist attack, it never mentions Islam or that the attackers were Muslim.

Article continues HERE.