A few weeks old, but still current — the stealth jihad to whitewash Islam and propagate it in the public schools still continues. “Schoolhouse Shariah,” from Investor’s Business Daily, September 24 (thanks to Allyson):
Multiculturalism: California’s educrats have put out new rules for teaching Islamic studies to seventh-graders in public schools, and they are as biased as ever. They’ll also likely spread eastward.
The lesson guidelines adopted by the bellwether state whitewash the violence and oppression of women codified in Islamic law, or Shariah. And they’re loaded with revisionist history about the faith.
For example, the suggested framework glorifies Shariah as a liberal reform movement that “rejected” the mistreatment of women that existed in Arabia before Muhammad and his successors conquered the region, according to Accuracy in Academia. The guidelines claim that Islamic law established for the first time that men and women were entitled to equal “respect.”
Sounds as if Dalia Mogahed could have written that!
Not so, says Islamic scholar and author Nonie Darwish, who grew up Muslim in Egypt.
“I am shocked that that is what they teach,” she said. “Women had more rights in Arabia before Shariah.”
In fact, “wife beating is allowed under Shariah” today, she added. “It allows a woman seen without a headdress to be flogged, punishes rape victims, and calls for beheading for adultery.”
California’s course on world religions also omits Islam’s long history of jihadist violence, while portraying Christianity as an intolerant and bloodthirsty faith….
You can’t teach the Ten Commandments in public schools. But teaching the five pillars of Islam is A-OK.