Reply #10: I agree..

[PsychoDad]

ayeshahaqqiqa said: "teach a little bit about Islam-not as religious instruction"

I think American schools could do with covering many more world cultures and their contributions to our western society. In the case of Islam, It is the world's second largest religion, found world wide, yet so little is known or understood by the majority of america. Few americans even realize the contributions made by Islamic culture on our civilization.. Banks, checques, mathimatics, hospitals, astronomy, etc. Much of the power behind the europian renaissance came from the middle east - the acadamies of Cordova and Baghdad educated many of the nobles of Europe.

But even so, Islamic culture is only one part of the greater picture of where our culture came from. Too many Americans think the Indians were eating pizza whene we arrived here to civilize them :+