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An implicit admission: The truth is damaging. "Council: Mongtomery schools cave to pressue with Islam book," by Leah Fabel for The Examiner, June 7:
A new report issued by the American Textbook Council says books approved for use in local school districts for teaching middle and high school students about Islam caved in to political correctness and dumbed down the topic at a critical moment in its history.
"Textbook editors try to avoid any subject that could turn into a political grenade," wrote Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, who railed against five popular history texts for "adjust[ing] the definition of jihad or sharia or remov[ing] these words from lessons to avoid inconvenient truths."
Sewall complains the word jihad has gone through an "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation of violence. He cites Houghton Mifflin's popular middle school text, "Across the Centuries," which has been approved for use in Montgomery County Schools. It defines "jihad" as a struggle "to do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil."
"But that is, literally, the translation of jihad," said Reza Aslan, a religion scholar and acclaimed author of "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam." Aslan explained that the definition does not preclude a militant interpretation. [...]
Sewall's report blames publishing companies for allowing the influence of groups like the California-based Council on Islamic Education to serve throughout the editorial process as "screeners" for textbooks, softening or deleting potentially unflattering topics within the faith.
"Fundamentally I'm worried about dumbing down textbooks," he said, "by groups that come to state education officials saying we want this and that - and publishers need to find a happy medium."
Maryland state delegate Saqib Ali refrained from joining the fray. "The job of assigning curriculum is best left to educators and the school board, and I trust their judgment," he said.
Posted by Marisol at June 8, 2008 3:44 PM
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Written proof positive the enemy is within the gates.
Posted by: Battle_of_Tours
at June 8, 2008 4:02 PM
This is unfortunately already practiced in many Infidel countries. For example the NCERT guideline of the Ministry of Education in India say:
“Characterisation of the medieval period as a dark period or as a time of conflict between Hindus and Muslims is forbidden. Historians cannot identify Muslims as rulers and Hindus as subjects. The state cannot be described as a theocracy, without examining the actual influence of religion. No exaggeration of the role of religion in political conflicts is permitted… Nor should there be neglect and omission of trends and processes of assimilation and synthesis.”
Posted by: dee
at June 8, 2008 4:13 PM
Maryland state delegate Saqib Ali refrained from joining the fray. "The job of assigning curriculum is best left to educators and the school board, and I trust their judgment," he said.
God made the idiot for practice... then he made the school board.
-- Mark Twain
at June 8, 2008 4:24 PM
Better to teach nothing than to teach the wrong thing.- Lao Tse.
Posted by: profitsbeard
at June 8, 2008 5:31 PM
I think the school boards and textbook editors are hopeless when it comes to providing children with real education. They are totally intimidated and full of fear. This is especially so when it comes around to political issues such as Islam. Yes, we can put pressure on the editors and the boards to be less propagandists. But maybe there is a way to educate the children and the parents on those issues that come under the influence of propaganda? If the schools refuse to remove the propaganda, then there could be ways of getting real information about the issues to the children and parents, without going through the schools. With the internet available to almost everyone now, maybe a site could be set up with supplemental information about those issues in the textbooks. So if Islam is discussed in the text, the child while at home could go to that site and get additional information that give them a more rounded view of the issue. The material could be written for different age groups. The site could be made free for use by anyone. Reputable historians would write the articles or the texts that would be on the site.
I believe this is one way around the propagandists. Show them that propaganda will not work in an open society. And the beneficiaries would be the future citizens and leaders of this country.
at June 8, 2008 5:52 PM
Why should Saqib Ali join the fray when he has already gotten what he wants?
That county holds many of the future DC workers. Good to know they are learning what's real.
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at June 8, 2008 6:04 PM
The same indoctrination waits all of our children if we do nothing to stop it.
Posted by: Christian
at June 8, 2008 6:36 PM
The same indoctrination waits all of our children if we do nothing to stop it.
Posted by: Christian at June 8, 2008 6:36 PM
Which world are you living in? Indoctrination started with Slick WIlly:
http://www.blessedcause.org/proof/Clinton%20Embracing%20Islam%20selling%20out%20children.htm
Dutifully continued by Bush:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
Americans have to thank their presidents/commanders-in-chief for the destruction of America; ironically, elected by the same Americans.
Posted by: Alert
at June 8, 2008 10:06 PM
These changes in terminology are coming fast and furious in the UK and in the US -- look no further than the respective governments and specifically to the individual leaders.
Focus there like a laser, and you will find the who, what, where, and why!
Expect more of this kind of brain-washing on a mass scale; you are only seeing the tip of the iceberg at this point!
Posted by: witness
at June 8, 2008 10:36 PM
Apologies for the bulk text dump, but the article linked above by Alert has not gotten enough exposure. Many hyperlinks in the original. Barf bags on stand-by.
From BlessedCause.org
How Clinton Sold
Our Children to Islam
Expanded 12/4/03
Allah 's apostle said, " I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' (Hadith 4:52:196*)
Islam's Intent: Force or Persuasion
Islam’s number one priority is to make all the world Islam, either by persuasion or force, and during his term, President Clinton provided both by weakening our defenses and surrendering our children in public school without a whimper. "Negotiations for peace" would be better described as laying down dead.
Each time America suffered a terrorist attack, President Clinton issued statements promising to "find the terrorists" only to: pardon 16 terrorists convicted of executing 130 bombings; refuse delivery of Osama bin Laden from the Sudan; repeatedly refuse detailed information about al-Qaeda and Osama between terrorist bombings; shut down investigations of Islamic charities; radically downsize our military and gut the CIA. (1) (Details)
Robert Baer, a 21 year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations states:
"Whether it was Osama bin Laden, Yasir Arafat, Iranian terrorism, Saddam Hussein, or any of the other evils that so threaten the world, the Clinton administration seemed determined to sweep them all under the carpet."(1)
Battleground: Public School
So just what DID President Clinton do? He "negotiated." Evidence shows Clinton cut a deal with Islamic leaders to legalize and protect Muslim indoctrination in our public schools. If Clinton could give Islam the conversion of our youth, Islam's resolve to destroy America would be appeased.
This was a tricky business with secular groups campaigning to strip all reference to the Bible and Christianity from schools. Therefore Clinton colluded with secular and religious-sounding groups and based his new Presidential Guidelines (2) on a document drafted by the American Muslim Council, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the ACLU which owns the copyright and many of the very groups attempting to censor Christianity today. This document can now be easily viewed (3) .
In the guidelines, every single "religious expression" that opens the door for Islam came equipped with a clause of escape, (2a) a backdoor for the ACLU to attack should anything Christian dare enter public schools under the same guidelines as Islam employs.
Clinton then presented these guidelines as originally drafted by "35 religious groups" and named it "Religious Expression in Public School. "Clinton failed to inform us, however, that these particular "religious groups" share a commitment to separation of church and state, as stated on the ACLU original draft. America, tired of censorship of Christian faith and noting the support of "35 religious groups", gratefully accepted these guidelines, only to wonder why Christianity is continuously outlawed while Muslim indoctrination overwhelms our schools, including children praying to Allah, memorizing the Quran and fasting for Ramadan.
Clinton included assurance that all students would be coerced to attend their Muslim lessons. He went beyond the American Muslim Council/ACLU's guidelines and added a clause stripping us of parental rights and religious freedom:
"Students generally do not have a Federal right to be excused from lessons that may be inconsistent with their religious beliefs or practices."
That explains why parents cannot opt children out of these inductive classes for Islam, a huge loss of our religious freedom. It is also why my school district superintendent showed me these guidelines and literally laughed in my face when I pointed out the incongruity.
Clinton's Steps of Betrayal
Clinton met frequently with Abdurahman Alamoudi, executive director of the American Muslim Council who participated in the original draft. Alamoudi supports Hezbollah and Hamas and was recently arrested on 9/28/03 for illegally receiving funds from Libya. Alamoudi was also friend and adviser on Islamic affairs to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Large meetings and events with Muslim leaders at the White House became commonplace, including celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast, (Eid) which Hillary claimed as "an American event." Secretary of State Madeline Albright hosted Moslem groups, where she discussed recruiting Muslims for State Department posts. (1b)
Then in 1995, President Clinton presented his Religious Expression in Public School guidelines, and through his Secretary of Education, described these guidelines as drafted by "35 religious groups" listing eight names that sound Judeo-Christian, educational or patriotic, omitting the other recognizable culprits. Some of these "religious groups" have been filing lawsuits against the Bible while demanding a proselytizing version of Islam be forced down our throats today. (5) Clinton proved full knowledge and deceptive intent by falsely presenting these guidelines as drafted by "religious organizations." (compare both documents [2] [3])
See Clinton's "Religious" Groups Scrutinized
These guidelines greatly impact public schools today. CNN’s Lou Dobbs interviewed Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU on Dec. 19, 2003. Strossen referred to Clinton's guidelines as the authority to support the ACLU’s lawsuits restricting Christmas celebrations and removing Nativity scenes from public schools. Strossen haughtily smiled as she said, "...and all these religious groups agreed to it!"
President Clinton and these "religious" partnerships opened wide the doors to our children's forced "education" of a fairytale Islam, while the ACLU continues to convince the courts to censor the Bible and anything Christian.(4) (4a) Shamefully, the ACLU simultaneously fights for such causes as mandating freshmen to read selected quotes from the Koran. (5) The ACLU and the like issued the rules to go to court with, and President Clinton knowingly presented them as his own "Presidential Guidelines" as he made surreptitious speeches with much aplomb about God. America swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Cheers at the Gate:
President Clinton’s religious guidelines are applauded by Islamic organizations such as SoundVision, which reminds Muslims it is their RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION (Dawa) to promulgate Islam and methodically explains how in public school today, thanks to Clinton:
"In the U.S. one of the strongest arguments in favor of seeking religious accommodation for your child is President Bill Clinton's 1995 statement of principles addressing the extent to which religious expression and activity are permitted in public school. This was given to every school district in the United States."(6)
"School students are routinely exposed in their classroom to new information and opinions, hence they tend to be more receptive to new beliefs and ideas. Schools are therefore fertile grounds where the seeds of Islam can be sowed inside the hearts of non-Muslim students. Muslim students should take ample advantage of this opportunity and expose their school mates to the beautiful beliefs of Islam."
"It has been proven that one to one contact with non-Muslim students in the classroom is the most effective way to share Islam...It is advised that brother work on the non-Muslim boys and likewise sister work on girls."(6a)
America does not comprehend how determined Muslims are to make America Islam. Suicide bombers and fundamentalists have already demonstrated their willingness to kill and die for it. To be granted rights to perform Dawa in America's public schools was a huge victory for Islam. Clinton gave them Dawa, our schools, our very children with his religious guidelines and cloaked it with a false inclusion of Christianity.
The guidelines state:
"Students may also speak to, and attempt to persuade, their peers about religious topics just as they do with regard to political topics."
"Students have a right to distribute religious literature to their schoolmates"
"Public schools may not provide religious instruction, but they may teach about religion, including the Bible or other scripture: the history of religion, comparative religion, the Bible (or other scripture)-as-literature."
That was a quick but explosive line: "or other scripture-as-literature." Pro-Islam materials and books began pouring in from Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations. Under Clinton's protection, completely ignoring set limitations which are never enforced for Islam, a small sample of what our textbooks contain includes:
"The Quran is the final revelation, just as Muhammad is the final prophet."
(new paragraph) "The Arabic word Quran can be loosely translated as 'recitation." In fact, the very first word the angel Gabriel spoke to Muhammad was "Recite." [...in FACT???]
"Ramadan is a holy time, because in this month Muhammad received his first message from Allah." (13 for more)
Clinton's guidelines were readily accepted by America as a sugarcoated pill promising our right to express our faith. America did not know the double standard installed or the original drafters' confidence and resolve that the Bible would be excluded as played out in the courts today.
note: Soundvision states it is "Waqf fi sabellillah" which few Americans know means "devoting a plot of land [i.e. America] for Muslim religious purposes in the name of Allah."
Islam Sends in Educational Troops
President Clinton clearly adopted Muslim religious beliefs into our public schools and proclaimed his success in his Ramadan message to Muslims.
President Clinton: "As America's six-million-member Muslim community grows in numbers and prominence, Americans of every religious tradition are learning more about the origins and meaning of Islam. That on "the Night of Power," the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Prophet Muhammad and revealed to him the first verses of the Koran. That the Koran declares that Ramadan was the month Allah's words were sent down, and so should be spent in fasting." (21)
America's children certainly are learning these Muslim beliefs as fact, overseen by another Islamic educational organization that flourished under Clinton's regime. The Council on Islamic Education (7) (CIE) contributed to our public school textbooks, funded by domestic Islamic donors perhaps aided by foreign support. Founder and director Shabbir Mansuri boasted that he is waging a "bloodless" revolution, promoting world cultures and faiths in America's classrooms. (8) CIE has warned scholars and public officials who do not sympathize with its requests that they will be perceived as racists, reactionaries, and enemies of Islam."(9)
Houghton Mifflin textbooks became saturated with Muslim beliefs as the Council of Islamic Education (CIE) helped write the textbook (originally denied until the publisher's Editorial Director was caught bragging about it in print). After public outcry to the pro-Islamic bias of the textbook, "Across the Centuries"(10), the publisher Houghton Mifflin (HM) responded by stating that:
"…the Council on Islamic Education (CIE) did not contribute in writing the textbook. The scope of their involvement was limited to reviewing the textbook material."
That denial was pure fabrication. In an earlier article at SoundVision, Abigail Jungreis, HM’s Editorial Director, credited CIE for providing textbook content:
"It is also with the help of the CIE that Houghton Mifflin's textbooks have been able to show what Crusades were like for the Muslims. We've been able to give several perspectives on an event like that," she says. "We see our reviewers as playing a crucial role in enabling us to present accurate and complete information" (11)
The textbook gives no indication that the Crusades section is based on the Muslim point of view, it is presented as fact and critical of Christians.
Founded in 1994, another Islamic organization during Clinton's regime and dedicated to the re-education of America is the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Currently heavily scrutinized for its ties with terrorists, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper states: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic... but I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." (12)
Textbooks: AK-47s of Islam & the Liberal Left
Corruption in our textbooks is undeniable as children are taught Muslim beliefs as fact (13) (13a) (13b) and teachers' assignments require children to repeat them as such. (14) There are documented cases of children being asked to fast for Ramadan(15) and get on their hands and knees and pray to Allah.(16) Clinton's nominee, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, recently approved this prayer as a lesson for children to learn:
"In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation,
The Compassionate, the Merciful,
King of Judgment-day!
You alone we worship, and to You alone we pray for help,
Guide us to the straight path."
The Christian section in "A Message of Ancient Days" presents the Muslim version of Jesus, reduced to a "popular teacher with ideas."(17) Pro-Islam bias in the textbooks have been substantiated by Daniel Pipes, PhD of the Middle East Forum, Dr. Robert Simonds, the American Textbook Council, and the Textbook League, all with whistleblowing conclusions. (18)
Children in the Trenches
Islam is determined to advance, entering by persuasion within our public schools and by sword at our borders. President Clinton has clearly provided both doorways as we are swarmed by Islam, courting our children while bombing our buildings.
Enter President Bush, met head-on by the onslaught of Islam fundamentalists, he took the bull by the horns at the brink of disaster and is courageously fighting to regain our nation. ...But if President Bush has taken any action to clean up our schools from Muslim indoctrination, it is behind the scenes and I pray it is so...but with every day that passes, with every unanswered judgment by a treasonous court, hope for revival led by a godly president fades.
For as we are consumed with the war against terror, we cannot afford to neglect the battle raging over our children. We MUST restore sanity to our schools. Our Islam-inductive textbooks cost over $60 each for millions of children. States like California simply cannot afford to replace them. Our precious children are shouldering the burden as their religious freedoms have been stripped and they are being enticed to Islam, with their progress carefully watched by Muslim nations. For what other reason would a United Nations nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, refer its international members to the textbook reviews at BlessedCause, exposing Islamic propaganda and sounding a public alarm? (19) Why is Saudi Arabia consistently one of the highest foreign visitors to our website of over 70 countries a month? (20) Because Islam’s resolve for the destruction of America depends on America's willingness to swallow conversion of our youth to Islam. As the Quran, Islam’s holy book dictates, we will become Islam or we are to be destroyed. (20a) It is clearly evident that Clinton made promises behind closed doors prior to his Ramadan message to Muslims. (21)
Casualty of Weak Leadership: Freedom
So as terrorists executed attacks on America, President Clinton slashed our defenses, gutted our intelligence, pardoned terrorists, halted investigations of Islamic charities and negotiated for peace, evidently with a powerful bargaining chip, our children through our public education system. Our children, our American heritage and our religious freedoms have been forfeit without a fight as our children are forced to learn "comparative religion" i.e., Islam propaganda, while criticizing both Judaism and Christianity in public school.
Is it hard to believe Clinton, professing to be Christian, could betray Christ and America like this? Examine the fruit. Lying under oath, dubious activities with staff, expediting RU-486, an abortion cocktail currently killing teenagers (22a), slipping in an ACLU document as written by "religious groups" is compounded when one remembers how Hillary demanded public funding for (brace yourself) a dung covered depiction of the Virgin Mary, with breasts of elephant dung, surrounded by genital pornography at the Brooklyn Museum in October 1999. (22) (23) Included in the exhibit was a depiction the Last Supper with a topless woman in the place of Jesus. Together the Clintons met with Muslim groups in the White House so often it became commonplace. In speeches against President Bush he has condemned America by blaming us with the Crusades. With this kind of history, it is not hard to believe Clinton betrayed America's Christian heritage and used our children as bargaining chips in negotiations with Islamic leaders.
America, Sound the Call! Rally for the love of our children!
It is time to shout "ENOUGH" of the liberal left debasement of our nation and swindling of our religious freedom. It is time to recognize this is America, a melting pot to BE AMERICAN, complete with rich heritage, morals and values to be proud of. An America to fight and die for, not one to pollute, corrupt and lay open the borders for attack. What's frightening is, so many Democrats are the embodiment of Clinton.
And so we look to God and President Bush. If President Clinton could outline Religious Expression in Public School, why couldn't President Bush delegate and enforce a similar document, this time including the preservation of our American heritage, recognizing the Judeo-Christian foundation, tradition and culture of our nation. Only God could find a way to clean up our textbooks without infringing on our God-given freedom to choose. I pray He lead President Bush in accomplishing that goal.
America, pray for President Bush, pray for our troops and pray for revival, God is our only hope.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen
at June 8, 2008 10:40 PM
Concerned,
Wow! Great minds think alike! I was just reading the same information about the traitor Clinton on another link before I read your post!
You're absolutely right - WJC has done far greater damage to this country that GWB could even imagine.
We will fix all this, in the end. Don't despair.
at June 8, 2008 11:05 PM
Good God! Why is our country bowing to barbarian Islam? WHY??
Posted by: darcy
at June 8, 2008 11:24 PM
OT, but related . . .
Why Arabian Gulf Countries Donate to US Universities
by Jamie Glazov at Frontpagemag.com.
FP: Tell us about how Arabian Gulf countries donate to US universities. What’s the significance?
Greene: I’ve done some analysis of foreign gifts to US universities in two posts on my blog that can be found here and here. First, I found that Arabian Gulf states (mostly Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates) give way out of proportion to their wealth. Gulf Arabs are the source of 16.44% of all foreign gifts and contracts to US universities but they represent only 1.95% of foreign GDP. That is, Gulf Arabs give 8 times more relative to their wealth than do other foreign donors. To put it in perspective, our top 10 trading partners (excluding Saudi Arabia) give 47% of all foreign gifts and contracts and represent 44% of foreign GDP; their giving is roughly proportionate to their wealth. Clearly, Gulf Arab countries have a particularly strong interest in US universities.
snip
FP: What are potential solutions to the problems these gifts produce?Posted by: heroyalwhynessGreene: First, we need to ensure that there continues to be full disclosure of all foreign gifts to US universities so that we can monitor any potential pernicious influence. Stanley Kurtz at National Review has expressed concerns that Congress may dilute reporting requirements.
at June 9, 2008 6:59 AM
I was listening to Michael Savage clips a few days ago. He said:
"It's time to stop hiding under your pillow. Speak out at the supermarket! Tell them what you think of islam. Tell them what you think of muslims. Tell them what you think of these things. Stop hiding what you feel. Say it to everybody you meet. Let them prove its a religion of peace. Say it in the supermarket line, and don't care what stares you get from those dumb idiots who are checking out behind you with their Crackerjacks. Say it to everybody you meet wherever you go.
"If America started to say it like it is, we could take the country back from the maniacs who are bringing them in by the tens of thousands. What sane nation that worships the Constitution, which is the greatest document of freedom ever written, would bring in people that worship a book, that tells them the exact opposite?"
Savage is right. We need to start exposing islam for what it is. Not just on blogs, but everywhere. Our children are being indoctrinate to believe islam is peaceful, and it will be successful if parents are so clueless they don't counter that indoctrination.
Get the message out, any way you can.
Posted by: DJM
at June 9, 2008 8:03 AM
*sigh* Montgomery County, Maryland public schools just gave me another reason why we homeschool our children.
Posted by: Bess
at June 9, 2008 9:45 AM
Concerned,
You're absolutely right - WJC has done far greater damage to this country that GWB could even imagine.
Posted by: boneshack at June 8, 2008 11:05 PM
Realize that any traitor (Democrat/Republican/Independent) anywhere, be it White House, State Dept, Homeland Security, is equally lethal and unacceptable.
Besides, GWB has done equal, if not more damage than WJC, but that debate would defeat the purpose of this post.
at June 9, 2008 2:33 PM
Yes, I do realize that. I was just making a generalization.
We all know who the traitors are. And there are many.
Have a great Jihad-free week!
at June 9, 2008 3:22 PM
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