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2005-02-28 Fifth Column

Scottsdale, AZ: sneaking Islam past parents

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-28 10:11:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I almost wish I was back in high school, or married and with kids in the public school system, so I could get in there and mix it up with the idiots who want to teach this crap in taxpayer-funded educational institutions.

Posted by The Doctor 2005-02-28 10:20:39 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:20:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 s'okay. Just let 'em teach Islam with the same skill that they teach Math, English, and Science and maybe the kids will grow to hate Islam too.

Posted by BH 2005-02-28 10:31:38 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:31:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I lived in Moracco for six months and wish evey Christian knew as much about Islam as I do - which is not much, BTW. I do not object to teaching a bit about other religions. It will be more useful and horizon-broadening than "Creation Science", for example. As usual, tho, everyone puts their own spin on it.

Posted by Bobby 2005-02-28 10:44:02 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:44:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 And a bit of perspective about schools - Billy Gates says they're a one on a five-point scale. My sister, the teacher, complains parents don't care at all, and a recent Time magazine article features parents who interfer WAY too much, to make sure little Johnnie's self esteem isn't damged. A little bit of truth in all of it!

Posted by Bobby 2005-02-28 10:48:38 AM|| 2005-02-28 10:48:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's the contents of the program:
http://www.teachtci.com/curriculum/mwh/mwh_toc.asp

Muhammad does get early and intensive coverage [a whole "lesson" (chapter) on him alone], while Jesus disappears somewhere into the fall of the Roman empire.

Lesson 8 covers "expansion of Muslim rule" while Lesson 32 tackles "the spread of Protestantism". Protestantism is made to sound like a disease and is far enough in the program that in may not get covered at all.

Islam basically gets Lessons 7 through 15. Christianity is not directly mentioned by name in the Table of Contents, but must be covered in Lessons 3, 31, and 32.

I don't even want to think about the bullshit in Lesson 10:
"...students read and learn about the contributions of Muslims to world civilization in such areas as science, geography, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, art, and literature..."

Posted by Tom 2005-02-28 11:15:33 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:15:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Doc, be glad you aren't. It might be fun for you, but your kids pay the price. And the union stewards make sure they do.

But, you're still paying taxes and don't have kids they can hold hostage. I'm sure some of your neighbors with kids would be happy to tell you what to sound off about. Sic 'em.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-28 11:18:10 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:18:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "I don't even want to think about the bullshit in Lesson 10..."

This is the kind of crap we get when we put idiots in charge of educating our children-- idiots who view life as an extension of Sesame Street. Idiots who believe "if only we try harder to understand these nice, gentle Muslims and be tolerant of them, then they won't hate us so much and keep trying to kill us".

They don't want us to be more understanding and tolerant: THEY WANT US TO BOW DOWN TO THEIR HATEFUL GOD, OR DIE.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-02-28 11:27:03 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:27:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Nambi-pambi multicultural BS of the first order. Do you suppose they have chapters on women's rights under Islam, jihad for the modern Muslim, beheading technigues, suicide martyrs and the 72 virgins, and bombs for children and the retarded? Do those chapters go before or after the half page chapter on "Contributions of Muslims to World Civilization?"

Posted by Hank 2005-02-28 11:36:25 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:36:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 students read and learn about the contributions of Muslims to world civilization in such areas as science, geography, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, art, and literature

Must be a very thin book, unless, as someone mentioned, its full of bullshit.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-02-28 11:36:57 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:36:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 http://www.historytextbooks.org/islam.htm
Islamic organizations act as domestic textbook "censors." Strictly speaking, since only governments censor books, the Islamists are merely agents of suppression, using educational publishers to do their bidding. But for years, publishers have ignored -- "stonewalled" -- those who have pressed them about motives, funding, legal status, and strong-arm tactics on the part of their Muslim "consultants."
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Anyone who is interested in world history or how Islam is covered in social studies classes should pay attention to a new seventh grade history textbook, History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond. The textbook and its instructional materials are now being piloted in Scottsdale, Arizona. The program is almost certainly to be submitted in the important California adoption this spring.

The publisher is Teachers' Curriculum Institute, a privately held company trying to break into the lucrative California textbook market. Based in Palo Alto and Sacramento, TCI's greatest advantage is being local. The student edition is an ill-written product printed on the cheap. Accompanying instructional materials are simply amateurish. By comparison, the Council on Islamic Education-inspired and often criticized Houghton Mifflin textbook for seventh graders, Across the Centuries, is an elegant tome with superior content, lessons, and instructional activities, on Islam and other subjects in medieval and world history.

According to the History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond front matter, the chief author-advisor on Islam is Ayad Al-Qazzaz, professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento. Al Quazzaz is a Muslim apologist, a frequent speaker in Northern California school districts promoting Islam and Arab causes. Al-Qazzaz also co-wrote AWAIR's Arab World Notebook. AWAIR stands for Arab World and Islamic Resources, an opaque, proselytizing "non-profit organization" that conducts teacher workshops and sells supplementary materials to schools. AWAIR is just as hermetic as the Orange County-California based Council on Islamic Education.

An aggressive, organized effort to whitewash Islam permeates social studies textbooks. The passages below are instructive examples of misinformation directed at twelve-year-olds and their teachers. This classroom initiative is part of what Jon D. Levenson, a professor of Jewish studies at Harvard University, identifies as "a cottage industry [that] has sprung up to define jihad exclusively as an internal struggle to gain self-mastery in order to act morally." With History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond, TCI will try later this year to sell a textbook to California schools that takes dictation from Islamist sources and advancing classroom fabrications of Islam. The proximate question is whether the state's department of education and state school board will let this happen.

more at link.

Posted by ed 2005-02-28 11:45:01 AM|| 2005-02-28 11:45:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 If the children are not allowed to bring that book home, what other books are they not allowed to bring home?

Time to run for the school board.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-02-28 12:41:17 PM|| 2005-02-28 12:41:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 After History, the children have Music class where they're taught the invaluable achievements of gangsta rap.

Posted by shellback 2005-02-28 1:28:01 PM|| 2005-02-28 1:28:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Crazy Fool - lol!

not allowed to bring the books home? Where's the tar and feathers.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 1:33:40 PM|| 2005-02-28 1:33:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Not to worry folks. The ACLU will be all over the school reminding them, through a law suit, of the "separation of religion and state" clause found in their copy of the Constitution. YEAH! RIGHT!

Posted by GK 2005-02-28 1:37:31 PM|| 2005-02-28 1:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I bet the excuse is that they only have one classroom set, blah...blah....blah.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-02-28 2:30:21 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-02-28 2:30:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Parents are not involved enough yet the school doesn't allow the kids to take the book home? Contradiction? Fear of being caught?

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-02-28 2:40:35 PM|| [http://rjschwarz] 2005-02-28 2:40:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 How about ...

Recall election "snuck past" the members of the school board who voted for the Islamic cirriculum. No one on the board thought anything was wrong until they showed up for work one day, and thier personal belongings were carelessly tossed into a box, and set in the hallway. The security guard came up and told them the former board members had two minutes to leave the building ...

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-28 4:05:24 PM|| 2005-02-28 4:05:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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