Teaching Islam OK, Christianity Not In America's Schools?

That appears to be the case according to the article featured below. Seems that Islamic entities have gained control of some of the textbook publishing houses and are freely inserting Islamic propaganda into them for our children's consumption. Between the Aclu mentioned above and CAIR we need full time watchdogs (here & here)keeping an eye on how much of our country is being chiseled away from us under the cloak of fairness and political corectness.

WorldNetDaily: Why Johnny is reading Islamist propoganda: "Islam is being taught in the nation's public schools as a religion to be embraced because 'organized Islamists have gained control of textbook content,' according to an organization that analyzes textbooks.

The American Textbook Council has concluded that the situation is the consequence of 'the interplay of determined Islamic political activists, textbook editors, and multiculturally minded social studies curriculum planners.'

It has gone so far that correcting the situation now becomes a problem, because 'educational publishers and educational organizations have bought into claims propounded by Islamists – and have themselves become agents of misinformation.'"

That comes from Gilbert T. Sewall, who not only wrote the organization's report on Islam and textbooks, but also generated a response to the flood of criticism he encountered.

William J. Bennetta, author of The Textbook Letter and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, also has documented dozens of instances of advocacy for or against a belief system, and has produced a list of books where the "religion preaching" leaves them "unfit for use."

Indeed, Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes even has repeatedly expressed concern about the "privileging of Islam in the United States" and warns the stakes go well beyond 7th-grade texts. His opinion of Houghton Mifflin's "Across the Centuries? Full of "apologetics" and "distortions." read more

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