Sunday, March 4, 2012

Textbook biases for Islam are answered

Textbooks published in the United States have come up with some famously biased stunners on occasion. For example, what’s being taught from some of those books now includes:

  • The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem contained “symbolically, the throne of their invisible God.”
  • Jesus was a “Palestinian Jew” who grew up in Galilee amidst “militant Zealots.”
  • It was “a few followers” of Jesus who “spread the story” about his resurrection.
  • While Islamic Arab warriors “rarely imposed their religion by force,” Christian monks “by contrast,” were busy converting “peoples of Central and Eastern Europe.”
  • Israel is to blame for terrorist attacks by Palestinians because they were “angered over the loss of their territory.”
  • When the Jewish state of Israel was born in 1948, the nation and its neighbors “went to war.”
  • It was because of the “loss of their territory to Israel” that “militant Palestinians responded with a policy of terrorist attacks.”
  • “The Quran permitted fair, defensive warfare as jihad, or ‘struggle in the way of God’” and this was how Muhammad and his successors expanded their territory.
  • And while Jesus is “believed” by followers to be the messiah, it’s a fact that “Gabriel continued to send revelations to Muhammad over 22 years.”

Now there’s an easy way to alert students – and teachers – to those mistakes and make sure the truth is included in a discussion on the subject.

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