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Sounds like a violation of the Church and State doctrine to me. Of
course, to the politically-correct liberal who actually believes that
racism can only be practiced by whites against blacks and never blacks
against whites, they can’t see a violation of the separation doctrine
unless the religion being “taught,” “hawked,” or worshiped is
Christianity.
Like Jennifer Shroder, who told the Pacific Justice Institute that the
new text book used in that short term course presented Islam in a
positive manner but depicted Christianity in a negative light, Lemings
saw the same thing and confessed her frustrations to Miles. References
to Christianity were centered on martyrdom during the Inquisition and
the Salem witch hunts—the text of which was printed in bold face type to
make certain Christianity was very clearly and noticeably depicted as a
vindictive, punitive religion that used fear to keep its followers in
line. No mention was made of the Muslim propensity to cut off the hands
and feet of petty thieves, and the beheading of murderers, adulteresses,
homosexuals, or those despised by the Islamic community—in particular
those attempting to convert Muslims to Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism
or Hinduism. The textbook, Across the Centuries, was printed by
Houghton-Mifflin. Showing its liberal bias, the textbook presents the
“miraculous events” Muhammad claimed led up to his writing the Koran (Qu’ram)
as fact. When miraculous events are described with respect to
Christianity, disclaimers are used in every instance to mitigate them,
thereby denying Christian miracles the credibility afforded Muslim
claims that lack physical evidence. The Houghton-Mifflin Role and the
Oil Foundations
As radio commentator Paul Harvey might say, “...and now for the rest of
the story.” It was not accidental that the book Across the Centuries
suddenly appeared on the market. Nor was it an accident that it was an
inflammatory anti-Christian text that presented Islam as the one true
faith. Nor was it by accident that the book was purchased by the
California State Board of Education for inclusion in its curriculum.
While most of those who read copies of the Austin Miles cyber article
published by Assist News Service or emails containing hyperlinks or
excerpts from the news release posted by the Pacific Justice Institute
immediately thought that the “special course” was speedily concocted by
politically-correct National Education Association bureaucrats in
California to mitigate anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States after
the 9.11 tragedy. Not true.
By Saturday, January 19, 2002 California school authorities and the news
media were attempting to justify the program as a post-September 11
initiative that was necessary due to the volume of threats against Arab
and other Islamic Americans. Reports of hate crimes and harassment
against Arab-Americans flood Islamic advocates’ offices although only
one incident of actual violence against someone thought to be an Arab
American and one threat of violence against five Islamic students in
Palmdale, California in retaliation to 9.11 was reported to, or
confirmed by, police departments anywhere in the United States in the
wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Nevertheless, based
on reports issued by Islamic groups, the media reported that hundreds of
instances of harassment, intimidation and violence had occurred.
In Portland, Oregon, parents of Islamic students at the Muslim
Educational Trust School asked city police to station officers at the
school to prevent retaliation for the September 11 attack. The police,
after carefully noting that there had been no violence against the
Portland Islamic community, nor had there been any threats to Islamics
in the Portland area, increased patrols in the school zone but declined
to post ‘sentries.” The parents filed intimidation reports with the
Council of American-Islamic Relations which immediately reported the
“incident” as another example of Islamic harassment. The school’s
administrator recruited parents to walk the school grounds throughout
the day to prevent “retaliation.”
In Palmdale, California there were threats. Angry students posted an
Islamic “hit list” that contained the names of all five Islamic students
in Palmdale High School. All five students were temporarily removed from
the school. Two of them—Indonesian Muslims—were brothers, Abdul and
Hanif Bachmid. Until the September 11 attack the Bachmid brother’s
mother, Aisha Attamimi, said the family had never experienced any form
of discrimination in the United States. It was the Palmdale incident
that brought Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige into the fray.
Paige sent a “dear colleague” letter to every educator in the United
States urging teachers to implement classroom discussions and assemblies
honoring the victims of 9.11 and educating the student bodies not to
foster hate or target Arab-American students for harassment or blame.
Inadvertently Paige, who was trying to prevent potential violence from
occurring in America’s schools, opened the floodgates that began the
spin that Islam is a religion of peace and that only extremists like
Osama bin Laden advocated violence. And, also inadvertently, Paige
caused the initial reaction expressed by most American Christians and
Jews when news of the Islamic “education” program dribbled into the
national news over a period of two weeks. They automatically believed it
was a post-September 11 “spin” program. It was not. The California
program actually began in 1990 when Muslim activist and Sacramento-area
businessman Shabbir Mansuri formed the Council on Islamic Education.
In April, 1986 Muslim advocate Uzma Unus wrote the following in Islamic
Horizons magazine: “Most history books present Islam in a very negative
way. In one case I heard a teacher compare Prophet Muhammad to Hitler.
Another one said that Muslims forced people who followed pagan religions
to convert to Islam...About 90% of what is written in the history books
is either false or twisted around to make Islam sound like a terrorist
religion.” Very clearly, since Israel gained statehood in 1948 the
Muslims have confirmed over and over again that Islam is a terrorist
religion. If there was any doubt after watching one suicide bomber after
another kill innocent Jewish men, women and children, Osama bin Laden
and his al Qaeda terrorists, Yassir Arafat and his Palestinian
Liberation Front terrorists, Hamas and the Hezbollah have more than
confirmed the terrorist nature of Islam. In 1988 Shabbir Mansuri, a
Fountain Valley, California businessman (outside Sacramento), decided to
do something about what he called “the false description of Islam” in
America. Mansuri founded the Council on Islamic Education in 1990 and
immediately began to engage in a dialogue with several textbook
manufacturers without much luck. The textbook companies in America
weren’t too interested in Mansuri’s views; nor were they prepared to
challenge the United States Supreme Court by publishing thousands of
copies of a textbook that contained a theological dialogue which which
most Americans disagreed. Using his Islamic connections in the oil rich
Mideast Arabian peninsula nations, Mansuri discovered that oil company
foundations who endow most institutions of higher learning in the United
States also profited handsomely from their 68% ownership of most of the
oil pumped from beneath the sands of the Arabian desert were very
interested in his plight.
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