Textbooks as Tools of Propaganda

One of the most troubling elements in the propagation of Islamism and Islamic propaganda has been taking place in the last decade through control of what is included in social studies textbooks. No important textbook is published today without vetting by professors who are sympathizers of radical Islam, or beholden to Saudi dollars given to them in grant money.

In addition, The Saudi embassy sends “educational material” to schools across the country that social studies teachers are only too happy to use. It does not require research or preparation.

Now the Foreign Policy Research Institute has produced a ten-volume series for middle schools and high schools titled the "World of Islam" and published by Mason Crest Publishers, and CAIR is up to its old tricks crying anti Islamic bias.

Richard Pipes has a great article on the topic.

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Honoring CAIR in Tampa

For the fourth consecutive year, Pam Iorio, Mayor of Tampa Bay, Florida, will issue a proclamation honoring the radical Muslim organization Council on American Islamic Reltions,CAIR, proclaiming a day in its honor. This city has had a problem with Radical Islamism for many years, and it was the home base of Sami Al-Arian and his Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Two Muslim students, residents of the Tampa area, have been arrested for possession of explosives and creating a video explaining how to detonate explosives. The website of the Muslim American Society-MASTampa, has had postings promoting hatred and jihad. All these associations are interconnected with CAIR.

CAIR is not Islam, and honoring this organization is not honoring Islam or the Islamic community, unless this community agrees with the philosophy espoused by CAIR. Either way, the sooner the proclamation is rescinded, the better.