Is there any hope of turning this blue state red before my kids are in high school? Good grief, what next?
Pajamas Media: A New York Post report from August 24 by Yoav Gonen highlighted the selective Islamophilia readily apparent in reading extracts from the New York State High School “Global History and Geography” Regents examinations. Subsequently, my colleague Gilbert Sewall of the American Textbook Council kindly provided me with the teachers Rating Guide for these Regents exam sections.
The egregious bias in this exam, and its structured, requisite evaluation by teachers, is transparent and disturbing. Two examples of complementary “Official Historical Documents” which students are required to read and discuss — one pertaining to Islamic Spain, the other Reconquista Christian Spain — along with very specific teacher evaluation guidelines they must satisfy for the best grade, epitomize the naked indoctrination being promoted.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
I really didn’t see that big of a deal. I read over the article and didn’t see anything false in the quotes from the textbook, and I’m a Christian. They treated both religions gentler than they have acted. I don’t understand why people want to make this nation more “Christian,” because a religious state would look like Saudi Arabia. So what if there is bias, there has been in our favor for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. We didn’t complain about it then even though it was unfair to others.
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To the commenter above me: you’re not a Christian but a confused hypocrite. No Christian would get involved in eastern meditation and/or “Namo Amituofo” chants.
Furthermore, the pro-Islamic and anti-Christian agenda exists not only in NY but in most American public schools. Here at a school library, there is an entire display dedicated to the “peace-loving” Islamic religion. They would never do that for Christians – would they?
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