Only In California
This is a great link to “Textbooks Proselytize for Allah“ in Front Page Magazine. The author goes into great detail, in describing what I consider to be, revision of history.
Muslim organizations have not only used California schools and textbooks to proselytize for Allah, but they now seek to portray other religions through an Islamic prism, claim the modern Jews do not have an historical connection to the nation of Israel, and reintroduce the charge of deicide to American textbooks. At least three major publishers whose textbooks are under consideration for adoption by the State of California – Ballard & Tighe, Houghton-Mifflin, and McDougal Littell – have enlisted Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director of Council on Islamic Education (CIE), as content consultant. Publishers shared their pre-print edition of textbooks with CIE, thereby facilitating the sanitizing of Islam before the textbooks made it to the public domain. But that was apparently not enough for CIE; they have submitted an additional set of edits that would help seventh grade Californians understand their respective religions from an Islamic perspective.
The author points out 3 troubling issues of this; Just Call Allah “God”, Israel-phobia, And finally Bring Back Deicide. The later, in my opinion was the root of the problem.
The ridiculous charge that the Jews were guilty of Christ-killing has no historical basis, but it resulted in their persecution for 2, 000 years, culminating in the horror of the Holocaust. Many distinguished and responsible Christian theologians such as the former Catholic clergyman Rev. James Carroll [Constantine's Sword: the Church and the Jews, a History] and the Lutheran theologian Professor Norman Beck [Removing Anti-Jewish Polemic from Our Christian Lectionaries - a Proposal] have confronted this tenacious anti-Semitism, and have strived to eliminate it.
But, a CIE edit attempts to reverse such noble initiatives. It cautions:
The suggested passive construction “Jesus was arrested” occludes the particular historical actors in the situation. Despite the understandable sensitivity of the subject for Christian-Jewish relations, it is important to present a historical narrative that is careful, accurate and keeping with the criteria to provide a story well told. The sentence could read: “Jesus was detained by some Jewish leaders and turned over to Roman authorities for judgment.” [:] Making the Romans the prime or only actors in the situation is simply uncalled for. [CIEAP – 10; HM – Item 32-33, PE 470-471]
What motivates CIE to propose such an edit which could unleash anti-Semitism in the classroom?
If historical accuracy is a concern, CIE could start with Islam. Henri Lammens demonstrates that the sira, or life sketch of Muhammad, as derived from the hadiths, is unreliable, self-contradictory, and was put together well over a century after the death of Muhammad [Ibn Warraq (ed.): The Quest for the Historical Muhammad]. Yet, textbooks present Islamic hagiographic accounts as history.
But presenting such facts might dampen the efforts to proselytize Californians.
February 17, 2006 - 01:55 PM on February 17th, 2006
Peejz I love you! the fact is the Muslim are using our school is because most of the kids inside the system are now Mexicans, and from all over the world, and that is great for evil to come down on us all. ask why are our government rats helping? in the mass dismantling of the USA:?: as a nation and our political rats are helping in this coming mass Holocaust, Israel wants one thing, our nation in the fight for Israel but since most of the Jews are now mixed into the Muslim population its going to become a real race war here in the the general world with many dead and it will become a third world war soon.
If A people can’t see the facts and that people do not care for each other that people will be killed by others ask what is the real reasons? to help millions of people to come here and dismantling this nation state.
A nation is made by its people and a nation dies by its people and that is what is happening to this great idea called the USA.
February 17, 2006 - 02:54 PM on February 17th, 2006
The muslim proselytizing in schools is a fact. In Kalifornia (Northern), in a city named Byron the local school district was going to put into the curriculum for grade school teachings about islam and muslimd. They were going to require kids to come to school dressed like muslims for one day and memorize and recite from the Koran. This all under the guise of mutliculturalism and “understanding”. There was a big fight over this.
Now you’d think that given their demonstrated opposition to anything religious, the ACLU would have been in the forefront, leading this fight. Nope. They were nowhere to be found. And when asked why, their mouthpiece gave the mealy-mouthed, weasel lying answer that they could not get involved in the case, or any case, until someone contacts them and requests their assistance. And nobody had, so they just couldn’t do anything! Yeah, right. They never did get involved even after some parents contacted them, proving once again that the Anti-American Communist Liberals United are interested only in destroying traditional American culture and mores any way they can.
It took the outrage of local parents to put a stop to this outrageous scheme. I am sure that given the protections of bureaucracy and the Unions, none of the administrators who came up with this were ever disciplined at all(they should have been fired).
When I moved to the area I live in 2002, I was considering whether to put my son in public or private elementary school. Private school here is expensive and logistically difficult. Then I read in the local paper that the public elementary skool had a “cross-dressing day” on which boys were encouraged to come to school dressed as girls, so they would know what it was like to be of the opposite gender. I am not making this up!
My decision was made that moment…
February 17, 2006 - 08:00 PM on February 17th, 2006
Wow Robert:eek: I don’t blame you for sending the kids to private. Thanks for the info on the curriculum!:smile:
February 17, 2006 - 10:28 PM on February 17th, 2006
Robert is right:razz: and peejz maybe a jihad guy
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February 17, 2006 - 10:39 PM on February 17th, 2006
No Fred I am not a jihad guy. I am a woman that lives in reality. Not some hermit that sounds like they have been on an acid trip since the 60’s.:roll:
February 18, 2006 - 01:51 AM on February 18th, 2006
Fred i’m pretty sure Peejz was agreeing with me
February 18, 2006 - 11:12 AM on February 18th, 2006
Robert, now that you have chosen the private route for the kids, how happy are you with the cirriculum? Does it meet/exceed what you expected? I am just curious…And how similar/dissimilar is it to that you were raised in?
I ask that because one of my brothers sends his kids to private..he is paying to have them receive the education he received in the public schools of the 60’s/early 70’s! Granted we went to one of the top 3 public highschools in the state, but sometimes it irks him that he is paying for what his tax dollars should be offering him!
February 18, 2006 - 01:17 PM on February 18th, 2006
I think it is good and has generally met expectations. The one exception was the first year when my older son was in 2nd grade. That year they combined first and second grades into one class. They said they could do it. I was very skeptical, and as it turns out that experient failed. My son was bored; the 2nd graders got shortchanged imo.
But since then (he’s in 5th now) it has been pretty good. I have realized that parental involvement is so important. If kids are not supported and encouraged to do homework and assignments properly, the lure of computer games and tv will compete with school.
The school also doesn’t have some of the bad influences that some public schools have. They don’t tolerate any nonsense and if somebody doesn’t want to be there, and demonstrates that by their behavior, adios. There’s a waiting list to get in.
I am pleased by the curriculum in all of the schools, including public, that I think has gotten better since I was a kid. My sister in law teached public elementary schoool and I have looked at the 5th grade math books they are using. They are into pre-Algebra; I didn’t get that until 8th grade.
But it has to, because kids don’t read as much as they used to. When I was a kid I read everything I could get my hands on. When I got bored I read encylopedias.
I am also trying to make my kids politically aware.
February 18, 2006 - 01:50 PM on February 18th, 2006
Well said Robert. I concur with you on the tv/video/computer area. IMO, kids are so intune to just going to the TV or computer and we are seeing imagination slipping away. When we were growing up, we were outside playing until we had to come in…now it seems like you would be hard pressed to get the neighborhood kids to strike up a friendly game of anything!
February 18, 2006 - 04:56 PM on February 18th, 2006
It bothers me a great deal that I am paying with taxes (>40% of every dollar the State spends in kalifornia goes to education) and yet it is a product I do not feel that I can use for various reasons, at least at the elementary and high school levels. So I pay twice.
In Kalifornia the Educrats and their Unions have a death grip on State politics. They just beat the Governator in the last election. They spend millions on a blitzkrieg of radio and tv ads that were so filled with lies, distortions, and misrepresentations it was astonishing, even for State politics.
And many of the same people that voted for the Davis recall, and for Arnold to come in and clean house, didn’t bother to vote and support change.
So the sheeple of Kalifornia continue to get sheared. The best chance they have had in 30 years to make substantial change they just pissed away.
My only regret is that the rest of us, who know better, have to suffer along with them.
February 20, 2006 - 09:14 PM on February 20th, 2006
We had a little problem with overcrowding when I was in school. We had more 1st graders than we had room for so they took the top 8 2nd graders and top 16 first graders and put us together in one class.The 2nd graders were given our assignments and put to work, while the 1st graders were being given their classes and vice versa. It worked well for us, but only because we were the top 25% of our respective classes and had a teacher’s assistant to help answer questions while the teacher was working with the other grade.