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Mother fights Islamist ‘Dawa’ textbook
California mother fights Islamist “Dawa” textbook, decries pro-Muslim religious bias and “proselytism.”
PRB News special assignment reporter Debra
Ferrell reported Monday, Feb. 25, on one California mom’s fight to
turn back Marin County’s public school Islamic proselytism.
It still appears to be an exception to the general rule of
acceptance across the western states to complacently get along with
the Islamic presence in public schools.
The challenge is out: look into the textbook issue and see if our
nation’s traditional Judeo-Christian heritage is receiving even
equal, let alone favored, treatment.
Favored treatment would reflect honor to whom honor is due: our
national values of Constitutional freedoms and justice in government
and law happen to stem from Judeo-Christian culture and thought.
Our forefathers brought forth a testimony of Judeo-Christian faith.
Coming to grips with that Bible-centered faith is how history comes
alive.
Making history “come alive” is a logical goal and
desire for any teacher.
However, the History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,
seventh-grade history textbook has caught the critical eye of
parents in California this school year.
Published by Teachers Curriculum Institute, the textbook continues
to stir controversy across the western states; it is used by
approximately one-third of the school districts in California.
Parents against it characterize it as an insidious form of Islamic
proselytizing - definitely not sitting well with a Marin County
mother who spoke to PRB News.
She said, “I filed a challenge to the book as a concerned parent,
primarily because I think the public school system has no business
teaching religion.
“I don't want my son to be learning about religion -- his own, or
any other -- at school via distorted and corrupted textbooks, and I
am outraged that there is religious proselytizing in and through
public schools,” she added.
Her filing is a matter of record with Marin County schools, but she
requested her name not appear in print for safety reasons.
The textbook she and others are concerned about devotes
approximately one-fourth of its 400 pages to Islam data that
contains “way too much” overt religious content, the Marin mom said.
While other religions are cast in a negative light, Islam comes
across as benevolent and uplifting, she added.
Ask many supporters of the Christian Action Network, CAN President
Martin Mawyer said, and you would find a pro-Islamist theme across
America appearing in numerous a textbook series.
“We are hearing from many concerned parents,” Mawyer said. “This is
one of our chief concerns as we work to expose the overall Islamic
extremist threat.”
The concern over textbooks includes the Across the Centuries series,
also by TCI.
TCI founder Bert Bower insists that his company’s textbook “really
gives students multiple perspectives.”
He goes on to add that experts and the state of California have
reviewed the book and approved it for use in public schools.
The Marin mom is not wavering from her quest for a closer look at
the textbook by her school board officials.
She is undaunted in her request that the books in which she finds
pro-Islamist propaganda be discontinued, as another school district
in Scottsdale, Arizona so decided in 2005.
In a series of emails she shared with PRB News, the pattern emerged
of teachers downplaying her concerns about bias, indoctrination, and
religious stories being presented as fact.
In a statement to one teacher, she said, “I realize that some of you
may be under the impression that I do not want my own child learning
about different cultures or religions. Frankly, nothing could be
further from the truth.
“While I believe that everyone should have the right to practice (or
not) their religion freely and without persecution,” she added, “I
also believe it is unacceptable for children to be exposed to
religious proselytizing at school.”
She closed one e-mail response with, “Our children should not only
not be ‘influenced’ -- wittingly or not -- to accept Islam (or any
other religion), they should be protected from such ‘influence’ in
our public schools.”
She has recently been asked by former California assemblyman Stephen
Baldwin to write a summary of her concerns for inclusion in an
upcoming book tentatively titled What Public Schools Don’t Want You
to Know.
A personal note: I don’t believe discussion
about religious beliefs should be excluded from public schools – and
prayer in school can only be a good thing, in my opinion.
The concern is, we’ve expelled the God of the Bible from public
school, and here we are indoctrinating for an Islamic god of
fortresses, Allah – a noted god of war and conquest.
Why is this happening?
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