Texas Board of Education Attacks Non-Existent Pro-Islamic Textbooks

[The Straight Story]

Texas Board of Education Attacks Non-Existent Pro-Islamic Textbooks

In an effort to remove what’s not really there, the Texas Board of Education wants to rid “pro-Islamic bias” from school textbooks that don’t contain such material.

“There’s a lot of people that think that, and I think rightfully so, that the key to terrorism comes from this jihad philosophy,” Randy Rives, a conservative activist who ran unsuccessfully for the board, told the Texas media. “'We want to make sure there’s not something in our textbooks to influence our young people’s minds that takes them toward a path we don’t want them to go,” meaning jihad.

According to the Texas Freedom Network, the textbooks that conservatives claim contain “politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture and stigmas on Christian civilization” and “sanitized definitions of' jihad” haven’t been used in the state’s schools for seven years. Although current textbooks mention the atrocities committed by Christians during the Crusades, they also call attention to massacres carried out by Muslims led by Tamerlane.

http://www.allgov.com/Unusual_News/ViewNews/Texas_Board_of_Education_Attacks_Non_Existent_Pro_Islamic_Textbooks_100923

I am pretty familiar with the Texas Schools and their state adoptions and Mr Rives has no idea what he is talking about. Have him call TEA and ask them about the books they are using (I am sure he would be aghast that quite a few of the books are in Spanish). I have most all of the Texas books, on hand, and he hasn't got a clue as to what is in them. Maybe he should take some time to read them sometime...

[nosmokes]

1. Seems the Texas BOE is so busy attacking non-existent problems the *Real*ones

like skills degradation, dropout rates soaring and a host of other adversities facing public eduction go wanting.