According to an earlier report from the American Textbook Council, history textbooks throughout the U.S. schooling system promote Islam.

Elected officials at every level should investigate how these offensive passages are creeping into our textbooks.  Via WND:

Dr. Gary Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research and a co-author of the study teamed with insititute research associate Dennis Ybarra for the study, titled, “The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion.” The five-year effort, which looked at 28 prominent history, geography and social studies textbooks, reveals American public school students are being loaded up with indoctrination about Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Middle East, to the cost of Christianity and Judaism and the benefit of Islam.

An excerpt from “World Civilizations,” by Thomas Wadsworth, for example, said, “Excepting the Old Testament’s poetry, the Jews produced very little of note in any of the art forms … There is no record of any important [early] Jewish contributions to the sciences.”

The level of outrageousness grew: “Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus,” claims “The World,” by Scott Foresman.

The institute analyzes issues such as racial and religious identity, philanthropy and higher education. Its full report is available at TroubleWithTextbooks.org, where all 28 books that came under its review are listed.

The organization said its study revealed textbooks include routinely negative stereotypes of Jews, Judaism and Israel. For example, Israel is blamed for starting wars in the Middle East and Jews are charged with deicide, and the problems are rife through the three mega-publishers that have deep enough pockets to get approval and publish a textbook in the major states of Texas and California.

“The ‘Trouble with Textbooks’ is a very important book not only for Jews but for the entire Christian community,” said Rev. John J. Keane, ecumenical officer for the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. “This volume is an excellent tool for anyone who is interested in balanced information that is fair and reliable concerning Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”

The authors found textbooks that stated or suggested:

* Jesus was a “Palestinian,” not a Jew.

* The Arab nations never attacked Israel. Arab-Israeli wars “just broke out,” or Israel started them

* Arabs nations want peace, but Israel does not

* Israel expelled all Palestinian refugees

* Israel put the Palestinians in refugee camps in Arab lands, not Arab governments

* Palestinian terrorism is nonexistent or minimal

* Israel is not a victim of terrorism, or terrorism against Israel is justified

* U.S. support of Israel causes terrorism, including 9/11

* The intifadas were children’s revolts not involving adults or terrorism

They also found that Judaism and Christianity are treated as matters of believing, while Islam is treated as a matter of fact. In the glossary of “World History: Continuity and Change,” the Ten Commandments are described as, “Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai.” But the same glossary states as fact the Quran is a, “Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God.”

One Response to “American school textbooks promote Islam, dilute Judaism and Christianity”

1. Snapped Shot · Always Watching the All-Seeing Eye Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 am

   [...] are learning about history in America’s public school system will probably surprise you. (h/t SmoothStone) The authors found textbooks that stated or suggested: Jesus was a “Palestinian,” not a [...]

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