Saturday, October 4, 2008

The Trouble with Textbooks.

According to a new book, Trouble with Textbooks, Textbooks around the world are blatantly used as tools for propaganda. It is shocking to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America’s elementary and secondary classrooms contain some of the very same inaccuracies about Christianity, Judaism, and the Middle East as those in Iran...........

The 500 problematic passages about Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Middle East uncovered in the analysis of the 28 most widely used textbooks in public schools should evoke considerable concern on the part of Americans. History and religion are being distorted in schools in every one of the 50 states.........

The authors found textbooks that stated or suggested:
Jesus was a "Palestinian," not a Jew.
The Arab nations never attacked Israel. Arab-Israeli wars “just broke out,” or Israel started them
Arabs nations want peace, but Israel does not
Israel expelled all Palestinian refugees
Israel put the Palestinians in refugee camps in Arab lands, not Arab governments
Palestinian terrorism is nonexistent or minimal
Israel is not a victim of terrorism, or terrorism against Israel is justified
U.S. support of Israel causes terrorism, including 9/11
The intifadas were children’s revolts not involving adults or terrorism
They also found that Judaism and Christianity are treated as matters of believing, while Islam is treated as a matter of fact. In the glossary of "World History: Continuity and Change," the Ten Commandments are described as, "Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai." But the same glossary states as fact the Quran is a, "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God."
The textbooks are listed here
H/T to Snappedshot

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