Textbooks May Be Too Pro-Islam, Anti-Christian, Texas State Education Board Says

[depakid]

Source: ABC

Students in Texas may be getting a glorified view of Islam, according to some state education leaders who are pushing for a resolution that would denounce social studies textbooks as biased against Christianity.

Though the president of conservative-leaning Texas State Board of Education supports the measure as promoting religious equality in schools, faith leaders and activists have condemned the board's proposal as intolerant and anti-Muslim.

"It's clearly just an attempt to propagandize the state's student population against the faith of Islam," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington D.C.-based Council on Islamic-American Relations. "Somehow they were getting too rosy a picture of Islam."

The board of education is set to vote Friday on the resolution, which was proposed by a one-time board candidate who failed to get elected earlier this year. It charges that "pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias has tainted some past Texas social studies textbooks." It also refers to the board of education as the "principal democratic check and balance" against "otherwise often-unresponsive editors and unaccountable authors."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/textbooks-pro-islam-anti-christian-texas-state-education/story?id=11697738

[WillParkinson]

1. A rosy picture of Islam...

Let me guess, the books don't say they're all heathen bastards bent on ruling the earth and crushing all who stand in their way.

Yep, that's way too rosy.

[marmar]

2. The Texas Board of MisEducation strikes again.

nt

[realisticphish]

3. I'm trying very hard

to not say anything about Texas, because I know it would start a shitstorm with DU posters from Texas getting offended, etc.

But goddamn. There may be a point where we have to attempt a coup of the Texas BOE just to make sure the members get the psychological help they need

[azurnoir]

4. Let me guess they mention the crusades,

the time period between 500 ce and 1400 ce, and gasp the ARABIC numeral system

[Bragi]

5. Molly Norris can do the cartoons for the new text

Oh wait, she just went into hiding because there's a fatwa against her.

Sorry to mention that here. I forgot that free speech is an issue for the right, not for us.

- O

[nyc 4 Biden]

6. join the fight.

http://www.actblue.com/page/savehistory

The Texas State Board of Education puts political ideology ahead of children. Time and time again they play politics with the Texas curriculum. This is not only important for Texas but because Texas is such a big purchaser of textbooks, it is important for the entire country.

Parents and educators alike are appalled that the board often overrides recommendations by experts and teachers, in favor of extremist political ideology.

Electing Dr. Judy Jennings and Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau to the SBOE in November is the only way to put an end to extremists using the board to promote an ideological agenda.

It's time to bring the focus of education back to our kids, our schools and our future.

more...
http://www.americanindependent.com/while-texas-school-board-tackles-pro-islam-bias-progressive-blog-helps-raise-1000s-for-democratic-sboe-candidates/

[ananda]

7. My candidate is Judy Jennings.

She's got my vote.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Example: "Islam is a religion of peace."

Objection: 9-11 contradicts that statement, The Crusades, Taliban, etc.

[HillWilliam]

9. The right-wing god must be a mighty weak and defenseless one

because the right-wing must constantly take up for it, shutting out all discussion of anything else but it; posting its pronouncements on every wall, making sure its flags and monuments are everywhere to the exclusion of everything else. For goodness sakes, it's so scared, weak, and defenseless that the sight of a Veda or Quran makes its holy spirit spread its wings and flit away. Any mention of any other religion than the right-wing teahadist cult gives the average teahadist the heebadee-jeebadies and makes them pee their pants.

They're scared of gay people, they're scared of black people, they're scared of brown people, they're scared of people who don't speak English, they're scared of people who speak (and spell) English correctly, they're scared of people who have full use of their brains... hell, they're scared of their own shadows, these "rugged individuals".

If their god and their positions were as strong as they claim they are, the teahadists wouldn't have to censor everything and fill every space with their own slogans, flags, and monuments to shore up their weak beliefs and weak positions.

A plague on all their houses.

[paparush]

10. History of the last 1400 years in four panels...

[h9socialist]

11. Don't wait for secession! Kick Texas out of the Union now!

It's a state run by hopeless morons! My home state is run by morons too, but every once in a while we replace them with benign idiots -- which makes things marginally more tolerable.

[COLGATE4]

12. Should read "Bored of edyoucayshun" . Idiots. n/t

[unblock]

13. "in the first place, god made idiots. that was for practice. then he made school boards."

[Jokerman]

14. "anti-Christian bias" is a catch-all phrase that covers anything a xian doesn't want to hear. n/t

[democracy1st]

15. freakin idiots

[alp227]

16. And...there's gotta be a good reason why the author of this resolution lost his one election. n/t