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February 9, 2006
US: Tax Dollars for Da'wa in California
Political issues not directly concerning Islam are usually outside the scope of this blog. Contrary to a common assumption, we are not all right-wing warmongering shills. But I want to make an exception on the issue of school choice. Something like 90% of America's children are educated in the government-run monopoly that is 'Public' 'Education'. I urge readers to educate themselves on this issue; it is more important than, for example, the 'oil issue' that the good people at Jihad Watch keep promoting. (There is no point of concentrating your efforts on an issue that has not even short-term nor medium-term solution.) But there is a solution to something like this horror, via Frontpage Magazine: California Schools Proselytize for Allah
If your child is unfortunate enough to study in California, he or she will be taught Islam is a fountain of modernity, liberty, and feminism. More importantly, he will be taught every aspect of the Islamic faith is historically accurate.The Houghton-Mifflin textbook, currently in use in many schools, lists one Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director of Council on Islamic Education, as its consultant. Mansuri is a businessman with a degree in chemical engineering, and not an academic. That did not prevent the California State Board of Education (SBE) from inviting Mansuri to a closed-door meeting, apparently to advise the board on Hindu edits, on January 6, 2006.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at February 9, 2006 1:24 PM
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