By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

According to the “Financial Times” a publication owned by Pearson,The Sovereign fund of Libya initially took a 3.27 per cent stake in Pearson. 3.27% is a significant stake in what is the largest educational publishing company in the world. Pearson is a $9 Billion giant that dominates textbooks, testing, teacher evaluation, IT platforms for schools, and may have the largest investment in lobbying of any publishing company operating in the United States. Pearson is also a major supplier to states who have adopted the Common Core Standard.  So why does it matter that Libya may have had or still has a stake in Pearson?

According to a February 2012 study by Citizens for National Security about Muslim Biased textbooks in Florida, four are published by Pearson. Act for America conducted a 2011 study of Muslim-biased textbooks in America and concluded that Pearson published 13 titles where significant Muslim Bias was uncovered. At the time of the stake, Qaddafi was leader in Libya, and promoted his radical brand of Islam. The Arab world, and the Muslim Brotherhood have shown great interest in using education in the United States to indoctrinate American students about Islam. This publication reviewed Pearson’s 2013 World History, a high school level textbook, as an example of strident Islamic Bias. According to Stanley Kurtz in the National Review the Saudis have made strong gains in penetrating American schools:

 How did they (the Saudis) do it? Very carefully…and very cleverly. It turns out that the system of federal subsidies to university programs of Middle East Studies (under Title VI of the Higher Education Act) has been serving as a kind of Trojan horse for Saudi influence over American K-12 education. Federally subsidized Middle East Studies centers are required to pursue public outreach. That entails designing lesson plans and seminars on the Middle East for America’s K-12 teachers. These university-distributed teaching aids slip into the K-12 curriculum without being subject to the normal public vetting processes. Meanwhile, the federal government, which both subsidizes and lends its stamp of approval to these special K-12 course materials on the Middle East, has effectively abandoned oversight of the program that purveys them (Title VI).

Enter the Saudis. By lavishly funding several organizations that design Saudi-friendly English-language K-12 curricula, all that remains is to convince the “outreach coordinators” at prestigious, federally subsidized universities to purvey these materials to America’s teachers. And wouldn’t you know it, outreach coordinators or teacher-trainers at a number of university Middle East Studies centers have themselves been trained by the very same Saudi-funded foundations that design K-12 course materials. These Saudi-friendly folks happily build their outreach efforts around Saudi-financed K-12 curricula.

So let’s review. The United States government gives money — and a federal seal of approval — to a university Middle East Studies center. That center offers a government-approved K-12 Middle East studies curriculum to America’s teachers. But in fact, that curriculum has been bought and paid for by the Saudis, who may even have trained the personnel who operate the university’s outreach program. Meanwhile, the American government is asleep at the wheel.”

Muslim Brotherhood documents seized by the FBI and presented at the Holy Land Foundation Trial in Texas revealed a plan by Muslim Brotherhood and their subsidiary organizations like CAIR to penetrate and indoctrinate American K-12 students.

Would it not follow that a large Libyan stake in Pearson  would tend to influence how textbooks are written? Key Pearson textbook consultants on Islam, Susan Douglass and Shabbir Mansuri have both been connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and voiced strong support of Islamic Madrassah, Islamic schools where hate for Jews and Christians is a daily lesson. The Pearson Libyan connection and others who may own Pearson bear deeper scrutiny.

Shabbir Mansure Council for Islamic Education

By Bill Korach. www.thereportcard.org

“World History,” Florida Edition Prentice Hall Pearson, 2013 is a 1054 page monster used for honors and standard high school level world history. As you would expect, it is chock full of dates and pretty pictures, but it also contains brazen pro-Islam bias. It covers history from early civilizations to modern times. The 2013 edition has removed some of  the aggressive anti-Semitic anti-Christian misinformation present in the 2007 edition because of public concern driven by reports from Citizens for National Security www.cfns.us  and Act for America, but the 2013 edition commits great sins of omission in favor of Islam. Pearson retained Shabbir Mansuri, and Susan Douglass to review and consult on the material. Both of these individuals are associated with the Council for Islamic Education, a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in America. According to Steve Emerson’s www.discoverthenetworks.com site the CIE is the:

• Leading contributor and consultant to publishers of textbooks that include Islamic-related content
• Promotes sanitized, inaccurate information about Islam in K-12 education
• Has associations with the Islamic Saudi Academy, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Islamic Circle of North America, front groups for the anti-Christian, anti American, and anti Israel Muslim Brotherhood

In the past Mansuri has also threatened scholars and public officials who do not sympathize with CIE requests, saying that they will be perceived as racists, reactionaries, and enemies of Islam as reported by journalist Jen Schroder.

Shabbir Mansuri, also founded soundvision.com, whose website www.soundvision.com gives several examples on how to incrementally introduce Islam and adherence to Sharia in America’s education system.

Soundvision.com’s site currently features two prominent Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on Islamic American relations (CAIR) interviewed by soundvision’s own show (www.radioislam.com), as well as an article featured on their site by Jamal Badawi, on how to interact with non-Muslims.

Susan L. Douglass, an American convert to Islam and the principle researcher and writer for the CIE for many years is a key player in Islamic outreach in American education.

Susan Douglas, has taught social studies at the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), an academy which has been cited for using textbooks that condemn Jews and Christians as infidels and enemies of Islam. She has publicly praised Pakistan’s schools that are known to fuel the Taliban and al-Qaida as “proud symbols of learning” among other accolades.

Douglass and Mansuri have minimized the enormous contributions Judaism and Christianity. The section entitled “The Roots of Judaism” is only three paragraphs in length. The introduction of Christianity entitled “The Rise of Christianity” is four paragraphs in length.

On the other hand, the section entitled “The Rise of Islam” is 32 PAGES with many of those pages devoted to rhapsodic praise of Islam. For example, Mansuri described the prophet Muhammed’s early days saying: “Muhammad became known for his honesty in business and was a devoted husband and father.” In fact, Muhammad lead a roving band of thieves to rob caravans and murder their owners to further his ends. Neither is there any mention of Muhammad’s massacre of the Jews of Medina in 627. Both are discussed by Montgomery Watt, in his book. Muhammad: prophet and statesman. Oxford University Press, 1974.

The 32 page section goes on to discuss the Five Pillars of Islam and the Koran. However in the introductions to Judaism and Christianity contain no mention of the Torah or the Bible. Later, the Bible merits a sentence when Martin Luther is discussed. On page 120, the authors state: “Muslims, Christians and Jews worship the same God.” However, many distinguished Jewish and Christian theologians would disagree with this statement. The authors, as if to contradict their own remarks, say that Muslims believe that like Abraham, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad is a prophet. But they say that Muhammad is greater than Abraham, Moses and Jesus.

“World History” contains many other flaws and misstatement, but the comparison between Islam, Judaism and Christianity is the most egregious. “World History” is not suitable for the classroom. You may download a free study “Islam-Biased Content in Florida’s K-12 Textbooks ” at www.cfns.us

Brigitte Gabriel

by Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

Brigitte Gabriel, President of ACT for America, will speak in St. Augustine on September 10 about the threat of radical Islam in America and against America’s schools. In Florida, a study by Citizens for National Security show that there are 25 textbooks in the State of Florida containing pro-Islam, anti-Christian, anti-Israel bias. The Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is speaking in schools in Tampa and other Florida locations. CAIR is the American face of HAMAS, a recognized terrorist organization. Admiral James Lyons, retired Commander the of United States Pacific Fleet, Lt. General William Boykin, retired, Department of Defense Director of Intelligence and James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence , have also specifically warned against the threat of Islamic subversion and penetration of organizations like CAIR. Ms. Gabriel has experienced Radical Islamic Jihad first hand in her native Lebanon, and she provides clear proof that it is happening here.

The events over the past eighteen months have been a sobering wake-up call to America. Without question, the threats radical Islam poses to America have increased.

Brigitte will discuss these threats to our security and our freedoms, such as…

The attached link allows Report Card readers to preview a segment of Ms. Gabriel.

http://www.tennessean.com/VideoNetwork/1271237687001/ACT-for-America-founder-speaks-at-anti-Shariah-conference-in-Nashville

But even more important than this, Brigitte will spell out the strategies and tactics ACT! for America is employing to effectively fight back against these threats.

You will hear first-hand how ACT! for America is successfully rolling back the tide of radical Islam…how we are winning legislative victories…how we don’t have to live in fear or resign ourselves to the inevitability of the threats arrayed against us…and how we will prevail.

Admiral William Lyons, retired Commander of America’s Pacific Fleet, wrote this expert that appeared in the  Washington Times last month about  the threat of radical Islam in America:

“Concerns raised by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and four of her     colleagues on the proper vetting of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff     to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, provoke larger questions about     Muslim Brotherhood penetration and influence in our government agencies,     particularly the Department of Defense (DOD). Recently, we witnessed     Pentagon Islamic adviser Louay Safi’s reappearance as the political head of     the Syrian National Council, a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated group. Among his     many other activities, he is also the director of leadership development for     the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which is the largest Muslim     Brotherhood group in the United States.

The president of ISNA, Imam Mohamed Magid serves as a member of the     Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Violent Extremism Working     Group. He is a close adviser to the National Security Council as well as to     President Obama. He continues to have access to not only the State and     Treasury departments but has been used frequently by DOD to formulate     responses to incidents that Islamists consider offensive. How comforting.     Let’s not forget that the ISNA is an unindicated co-conspirator in the Holy     Land Foundation trial in 2008 for providing funding to the terrorist group     Hamas.

An open question is what role Imam Magid played in influencing DHS to     cancel a conference on homegrown radical extremism at CIA headquarters in     August 2011. We know that the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR)   demanded that the training conference featuring a presentation by Stephen     Coughlin, among others, be canceled. It should be recalled that CAIR is     also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. CAIR     was also successful in getting West Point’s chaplain to cancel a prayer     breakfast in early February by Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, a West Point     graduate and former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence,     because of his views on Islam. So much for the First Amendment.

Mr. Safi has cast a wide net in DOD. He was also responsible for     teaching Islam to U.S. Army military personnel at various bases, including     Fort Hood, so that they would be more sensitive to Islamic customs and     traditions. This sensitivity training is all done under the guise of our     counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy to win the hearts and minds of Muslims     first in Iraq and now in Afghanistan.

On Oct. 19, 2011, a letter signed by an array of Muslim groups,     including CAIR and ISNA, both Muslim Brotherhood organizations, was sent to     Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan complaining about the     government’s use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials     about Muslims and Islam. Much of the material utilized by U.S. trainers that     the groups complained about was extracted from the Koran and Shariah     law.

 

 

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August 1, 2012

Hillsborough County School Board

Tampa, FL

Melvin Bledsoe Father of Jihad Killer

By Bill Korach

Community Leaders, parents, and special guest Melvin Bledsoe spoke out against The Council on Islamic American Relations, a terrorist-linked front group lecturing students in Tampa Schools. Mr. Bledsoe, the father of a radicalized student serving life imprisonment for the cold-blooded murder of Army Private William Long, warned of the danger of radical Islamists like CAIR/Hamas in American schools:

 “They befriend you, get to know you, learn your weaknesses and fears, then they recruit you. My son was recruited by a Mosque near his school, and was sent to Yemen for terrorist training. I do not want to have what happened to our family and the Long family every happen again.”

Terry Kemple, Hillsborough County School Board candidate and event organizer is clearly frustrated by the Board’s unwillingness to act and bar CAIR’s Hasan Shibly from the classroom:

“We have been to 14 school board meetings over the past 12 months, and the Board has yet to adopt a policy to keep CAIR, a terrorist linked front group from out schools. The Board says that our kids are mature enough to decide things for themselves, but Mr. Bledsoe’s experience says otherwise.”

Mr. Kemple was joined by leaders of other organizations who spoke at the School Board meeting: Dr. Richard Sweir, Community Business Leader and host of the Dr. Rich radio show, Usama Dakdok, a Coptic Christian from Egypt, and head of The Straight Way Ministry; Nick Martin, Citizens for National Security, Randall McDaniels, of Act for America.

Mr. Kemple vowed: “We will not rest until CAIR and terrorist linked groups like them are barred spreading their poisonous message in our schools.”

by Bill Korach.

In this exclusive three part video taped at the First Conservative Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America speaks about the influence of Islamic Jihadist organizations in America. You will learn three critical, must-know things about Islamic Jihad in America:

1. Sharia Law as a replacement for Constitutional Law is the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest islamic terrorist organaiztion in the world. She says they destroyed the land of her birth, Lebanon and its Christian community. She says that on 9/11, should could still remember the oder of gunpowder in Lebanon. Gabriel saw that the Islamic Jihadist were here in America.

2. The Muslim Brotherhood has spawned subgroups in America for the purpose of undermining and subverting our schools funded by Saudi Oil money. She says useful idiots like the ACLU, provide legal cover for these Islamic terrorist subgroup’s activities, and permit sloppy educational standards. Gabriel says: “We pump gas into our cars, and they pump poison into the veins of our school children.” She cites the 2007 Holy Land Foundation Trial in Texas as proof of the terrorist nature of Cultural Islamic Jihad.

3. Jihad is falsely explained by CAIR and Council for Islamic Education as “a struggle for justice and against oppression.” CIE has contributed false or misleading material to 25 textbooks in Florida and 35 nationwide. She calls upon our elected officials and the public, to “get some backbone and stand against Islamic Jihad in America.”

Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America

by Bill Korach

Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America

In this exclusive video Part 2 , Brigitte Gabrielle tells how the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest Islamic terror organization in the world, has spawned subgroups in America for the purpose of Islamic propaganda. She cites the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the largest terror trial in America, as proof of the subversive intentions of the Muslim Brotherhood and their sub groups in the U.S. The purpose of these Islamic groups like CAIR and Council on Islamic Education (CIE) is to create cultural Jihad against American schools through textbooks. Gabriel says that the Saudis have given Harvard University $22 Million to teach Islam, and millions more have been given to universities across America. She states that there are more chapters of the Islamic Student Association on college campuses than the Democrat and Republican clubs combined. CAIR and CIE are using America freedom and generosity against us to create a false image of Islam and subtle attacks against America’s Judeo Christian Heritage. Gabriel says that oil money in Saudi Arabia drives cultural Jihad. “We pump gas on our cars, and they pump poison into the veins of our school children.”

Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America

by Bill Korach.

In this exclusive video, Brigitte Gabriel tells about how the Jihadist Islamic Council on Education subverts America’s class rooms. They falsely  call Jihad a “struggle against injustice and oppression.” Gabriel says we must develop “some backbone” and educational standards so we can stand up to the corruption of America’s schools.

CIA Director vs. Tampa School Board

Intelligence vs. Arrogance…regarding CAIR and your Child’s Education

By Randy McDaniels

On Friday, the controversial Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) made headlines in Oklahoma and Tampawith quite contrasting perspectives in regard to the danger CAIR poses.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey, spoke to the High Noon Clubin Oklahoma addressing CAIR in relation to their threat to national security and the fact CAIR is working to undermine the United States, while in stark contrast the Tampa School Board held a “workshop” only after considerable pressure from a rapidly growing contingent of concerned parents and civic groups regarding guest speakers from CAIR in numerous public school classes over the past several years.

The Controversy erupted when emails between history teacher Kelly Miliziano and CAIR’s Hassan Shibly, as well asCAIR’s Facebook page posts which stated CAIR had been speaking regularly in the public school system surfaced in December 2011.

Director Woolsey, arguably one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts during an interview with Channel 9 news on Friday said “the group [CAIR] is an extremist Muslim group with ties to terrorists.” He also said ”It [CAIR] was clearly in the business of helping send funds to a terrible, totalitarian terrorist organization: Hamas.”

Hassan Shibly, Exec. Dir of CAIR Tampa has significant controversy surrounding him as well. He was kicked out of the university of Buffalo’s Student Body for his bias, has praised Hezbollah, and his family has close ties to President Assad, as well as the now deceased Grand Mufti Kuftaro of Syria who stood by Assad when he was committing atrocities and torture against his own peoples.

CAIR leaders have stated they want Sharia to be the LAW of the LAND in America and Education was vehicle through which they would accomplish that mission.

Hassan Shibly supports Sharia Law, recently lobbying Tallahassee and misinforming the community about the nature of SB 1360, which did not make it to the floor for the final vote after passing overwhelmingly in the house and passing both Senate Subcommittees.

With the exception of School Board Member Dr. Stacy White, the School Board continues to express disdain and arrogance at having to deal with this issue.

“I resent having this conversation in the first place,” School Board member April Griffin said. ”I don’t want to craft a policy based on bullying, based on people coming forward demanding we do something because they don’t like the way we do things.”

In contrast, The FBI has had a policy which formally severed all ties to CAIR since 2009 and President Obama signed a “Bill” in November, 2011 affirming the FBI Policy…formally making the policy of cutting ties to CAIR and other unindicted co-conspirators in regard to terrorism a matter of LAW.

However, The Tampa School Board is defiantly unwilling to craft a policy to protect our children and formally cut ties to CAIR, a Federally Designated HAMAS entity and a Co-Conspirator in the largest successfully prosecuted terrorism Funding Case in U.S. History. The U.S. vs. HLF trial of 2008 resulted in CAIR members being sentence up to 65 years in federal prison and all defendants being found guilty.

The additional 246 individuals and organizations were to be subsequently tried in future prosecutions to include one scheduled for April, 2010 listing defendant Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of CAIR, however Attorney General Eric Holder quashed this and future proceedings despite a mountain of evidence and guilty verdicts on all 108 counts.

The FBI was able to draft a policy barring dealings with groups like CAIR, which was the basis for subsequent U.S. Law banning dealings with CAIR, and other Co-conspirators… then one, would surely think that those enlightened individuals tasked with educating the future generation of American leaders would be capable of doing likewise.

Terry Kemple, the local leader of the Education Coalition submitted a policy draft to Tom Gonzalez, Attorney for the School Board. This draft in regard to co-conspirators is similar to the law President Obama signed in November and reads as follows:

“In determining whether a speaker has the appropriate experience and/or credentials necessary to promote a scholarly discussion of the topic being considered, the following may be considered:

    1) Academic or professional credentials of the potential speaker;

    2) Whether the potential speaker has been convicted of, indicted for, or listed in an indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator involved in, the commission of a felony under the laws of the United States, or a State thereof;

    3) Whether the potential speaker represents, is an officer or employee of, is paid by, or is publicly associated with any organization;

            A. Whether such organization is primarily an advocacy, as opposed to an educational, organization;

            B. Whether the organization has a 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS;

            C. Whether the organization has been convicted of, indicted for, or listed in an indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator involved in, the commission of a felony under the laws of the United States, or a State thereof;

            D. Whether any current or past officer of the organization has been convicted of, indicted for, or listed in an indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator involved in, the commission of a felony under the laws of the United States, or a State thereof.

Candy Olson and the majority of the Tampa School Board members staunchly defend the ability of the principals and teachers to be able to vet Islamic speakers, yet they have not even been able to detect or vet textbooks which they have used for years regarding Islamic Indoctrination and have allowed a HAMAS entity to influence our children for at least three years.

In a two year study a report recently released by ACT! for America; of the leading textbooks used in History and Social Studies Classes across America, all (38) textbooks have disparaging biases, omission, and counter factual narratives regarding Islam.

A summary of this report was sent via Certified Mail to over 70,000 Superintendents and School Board Members in the country earlier this month.

Some textbooks taught that Jesus was a Palestinian, that Muslims discovered America, and in one Florida approved English textbooknot in the report, Professor Ihsan Bagby, misleads students and promotes the CAIR narrative of Muslim victimhood despite FBI hate crime statistics which crush this false claim.

Bagby, a National Board member of CAIR is on record for stating “Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizen of this country…. Because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”(Political Activities of Muslims in America, Oxford university Press, 1991)

The fact is, many educators are barely familiar with the term Sharia Law or Islamic doctrine and do not possess any real knowledge in this regard…. Therefore how can these well meaning educators safeguard our children from something they do not understand?

“Schools are fertile grounds where the seeds of ISLAM can be sowed inside the hearts of Non-Muslim students.”www.dawanet.com

“I am waging a “bloodless” revolution, promoting world cultures and faiths in America’s classrooms”. (Shabbir Mansouri Council on Islamic Education which provides virtually all Islamic Content in Public School Textbooks).

CAIR’s National Spokesman said ”I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.” (Statement by CAIR Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993)

CIA Director James Woolsey, during his interview in regard to CAIR, told Channel 9 News in Oklahoma ”Sometimes people are friendly and they’re nice people. Sometimes people are friendly and they’re masking something else they’re doing.”

What do you think….. Does CAIR likely have an ulterior agenda?

Act for America, an organization dedicated to fighting Islamic Jihad in America, has released their long awaited study of pro-Isamic bias in public school textbooks “Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6th through 12th Grade American Textbooks.”

The study was released on the heels of the February release of Citizens for National Security’s “Teacher’s Guide to Islam Biased Content in Florida’s K-12 Textbooks.” Brigit Gabriel, head of Act for America said in the introduction that The 229 page report set out ask these questions:

Thus the question posed by this Report. Does the manner in which Islam is generally presented in 6th through 12th grade public school textbooks constitute proper and appropriate education – or does it amount to indoctrination?

Is Islam presented in a manner in which facts are embellished and its virtues exaggerated, while unfavorable, negative or detrimental information about the religion is omitted, glossed over, understated, or rationalized, thus amounting to “indoctrination” rather than education?

Is Islam presented in a manner that leads students to predetermined conclusions about the religion that are unsupported by historical facts and critical analysis, amounting to “teach[ing] (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically?”

This Report set out to address and answer these questions. For as the British philosopher and educator Richard Stanley Peters wrote: “What matters is not what any individual thinks, but what is true. A teacher who does not equip his pupils with the rudimentary tools to discover this is substituting indoctrination for teaching.”

The report, available from Act for America at no cost, looks at textbooks from early Islamic history to the present  time, and find serious bias and that can only be for purposes of indoctrination. Here are some examples from the study:

Who perpetrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 – a group of men merely fighting “for a cause,” or a band of radical Muslims bent on violent jihad? The study points out that the former phrase is what is presented.

According to the study of 6th-12th grade textbooks used by schools across the country, America’s children are being taught a very different answer to that question than many alive to witness 9/11 remember.

For example, the report notes the textbook “World History: Patterns of Interaction,” published by McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin in 2007, glosses over the violent birth of Islam and paints its founder, Muhammad, in a glowing light.

“In Medina, Muhammad displayed impressive leadership skills,” the textbook asserts. “He fashioned an agreement that joined his own people with the Arabs and Jews of Medina as a single community. These groups accepted Muhammad as a political leader. As a religious leader, he drew many more converts, who found his message appealing.”

But did Muhammad win converts among and build a peace accord with the Jews? The study’s founders cite several sources and recorded histories in asserting this description is a bald-faced lie.

“This language is a gross falsification of the relationship between Muhammad and the Jews of Medina,” the report states. “Muhammad … expelled two of the Jewish tribes from Medina and destroyed the third, beheading the men and selling the women and children into slavery. This important and essential historical fact of the Medinan period is commonly omitted in the textbooks reviewed, and it is impossible for students to accurately understand the rise of Islam without it.”

The report also questioned the textbooks’ descriptions of jihad.

“An Islamic term that is often misunderstood is jihad,” asserts Houghton Mifflin’s 2003 textbook “Across the Centuries.” “The term means ‘to struggle,’ to do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil. Under certain conditions, the struggle to overcome evil may require action. The Qur’an and Sunna allow self-defense and participation in military conflict, but restrict it to the right to defend against aggression and persecution.”

“The term jihad is, indeed, ‘often misunderstood,’” the report replies, “primarily because faulty definitions like this are prevalent in academia and the media.

“First, this passage redundantly and incorrectly asserts that jihad warfare is solely defensive in nature,” the report continues. “According to the Qur’an , the mandate of jihad includes aggressive warfare for the explicit purpose of making Islam supreme over the entire world. For instance, Surah 9:5 commands Muslims to ‘fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, And seize them, beleaguer them, And lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)’ (parenthetical in original). Surah 9:29 commands Muslims to make war upon ‘People of the Book [Christians and Jews], Until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, And feel themselves subdued.’”

The report’s executive summary concludes,

“It is clear that the textbooks examined throughout this report contain extensive amounts of material that is seriously historically flawed and often unmistakably biased.”

There is now an indisputable wealth of evidence from major studies from Citizens for National Security, The American Textbook Council and now the Act for America Study, that Islamic bias in textbooks is a serious problem that must be solved at the state and local school board level. Studies may be ordered at no charge by visiting these websites:

https://cfns.us/

www.actforamerica.org/