From ACT! for America:

One of the projects one group of our chapters has undertaken is collecting public school textbooks and reviewing their treatment of Islam with the ultimate objective of taking their findings to the State Board of Education and demanding changes be made.

A new report by the American Textbook Council reveals why such a project is so necessary. This is an excellent illustration of how research is necessary to expose the facts, but follow-up action is necessary to ensure that the research leads to changes.

The fawning, distorted version of the history of Islam in these textbooks can be summed up from this question and answer found in one book:

“Q: How did the caliphs who expanded the Muslim Empire treat those they conquered? A: They treated them with tolerance.”

What utter nonsense! This would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic and dangerous. To completely re-write history so as to ignore the 270 million who have died at the hands of Islamic subjugation is unconscienable.

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
WorldNetDaily Exclusive

History textbooks promoting Islam
New report says Muslim activists ‘succeeding’ in expunging criticism

By Bob Unruh

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=63872

WorldNetDaily

History textbooks being used by hundreds of thousands of public school students across the U.S. are blatantly promoting Islam, according to a new report by an independent organization that researches and reviews textbooks.

WND has reported several times on issues involving the promotion of Islam in public school texts, including a recent situation in which California parents complained their children were being taught that “jihad” to Muslims means “doing good works.”

The new report is from the American Textbook Council, which was established in 1989 as an independent national research organization to review social studies textbooks and advance the quality of instructional materials in history.

In the two-year project, whose report was authored by Gilbert T. Sewall, the ATC reviewed five junior and five high school world and American history texts, concluding:

“Many political and religious groups try to use the textbook process to their advantage, but the deficiencies in Islam-related lessons are uniquely disturbing. History textbooks present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.”

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