Widely used U.S. textbook biased against Christianity; favors Islam
A
group of outraged Floridian parents contacted Todd Starnes of Fox News
Radio when they found out what’s in a school textbook of their teenage
children.
The textbook, World History, is published by Prentice Hall,
which is owned by the company Pearson Education, and is used in 9th
grades, not just in Florida, but in public school districts across the
United States.
World History not only slights Christianity, although Western civilization is
a Judeo-Christian civilization, the textbook clearly favors Islam both
in the quantity of pages given to Islam, as well as its characterization
of Islam and its founder.
In an interview on Fox News, which you can see
here, Starnes enumerates just what’s wrong with the textbook:
- There is a 36-page chapter devoted to Islam, but there is no chapter on Christianity or Judaism.
- In that 36-page chapter on Islam, in reference to Mohammed spreading
Islam with the sword, no mention is made of the tens of thousands of
people who were massacred. Instead, the book says “people happily
accepted Islam as their way of life.”
- Prentice Hall reportedly hired a Muslim cleric to write the chapter on Islam. On Amazon.com, a reviewer of the textbook, brian sanborn, identified the cleric to be Shabbir Mansouri, who wants sharia law for America.
- The book says Jesus “proclaimed” himself to be the Messiah, but states as fact that Mohammed was a prophet.
- Christian battles are called “massacres,” whereas Muslim battles are called “takeovers.”
- When someone contacted Pearson Education
about the textbook, their spokeswoman Susan Aspey insisted that the
textbook is not biased against Christianity and in favor of Islam. On
the contrary, “a review of the book shows there is balanced attention to
the beliefs of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.”
So if you’re a parent of a
15-year-old in 9th grade, demand to know why your kid is assigned a
textbook on world history that (1) slights Christianity,
although it was Christians who founded the United States of America on
the foundation of the Western Judeo-Christian civilization; but (2) instead favors Islam, although Islam is a minor religion in the United States today.
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