To tie in my past few posts, I wanted to talk about something we’re trying to get changed here in the motherland of Texas – the best state in the Union! Unfortunately, even our schools have been overtaken by a predominantly liberal state education system in Austin, even though I did get props from an unnamed principal when I visited the school wearing my “Obamunism” t-shirt.

I don’t know about your child’s textbooks, but you should take a look at them and see if you have the same issues in your state as we do. What is put into textbooks is decided by each state’s board of education. If you live near your state capital, it doesn’t hurt to actually attend these board meeting to express your opinions about what will be taught in your entire state!

The problem we have in Texas is that our Social Studies books are overwhelmingly pro-Islam and anti-Christianity. In one instance, our books devote 120 student text lines to Christian beliefs, practices, and holy writings but 248 (more than twice as many) to those of Islam. Furthermore, they dwell for 27 student text lines on Crusaders’ massacre of Muslims at Jerusalem in 1099 yet say nothing at all about Muslims’ massacres of Christians there in 1244 and at Antioch in 1268, implying that Christian brutality and Muslim loss of life are significant but Islamic cruelty and Christian deaths are not.

In another instance, the books allot 82 student text lines to Christian beliefs, practices, and holy writings, but 159 (almost twice as many) to those of Islam. They also describe Crusaders’ massacres of European Jews yet ignore the Muslim Tamerlane’s massacre of perhaps 90,000 co-religionists at Baghdad in 1401, and of perhaps 100,000 Indian POWs at Delhi in 1398. Three times they charge medieval Christians with sexism. They say the Church “laid the foundations for anti-Semitism”, while ignoring Islam’s contributions to the very same issues facing the 14th and 15th centuries.

Third, our Social Studies books spend 139 student text lines on Christian beliefs, practices, and holy writings but 176 on those of Islam. They claim Islam “brought untold wealth to thousands and a better life to millions,” while “because of [Europeans' Christian] religious zeal … many peoples died and many civilizations were destroyed.” They contrast “the Muslim concern for cleanliness” with Swedes in Russia who were “the filthiest of God’s creatures”.

These pro-Islamic/anti-Christian half-truths, selective disinformation, and false editorial stereotypes still roil some Social Studies textbooks nationwide. This is evidenced by patterns of pejoratives towards Christians and superlatives toward Muslims, calling Crusaders aggressors, “violent attackers,” or “invaders” while euphemizing Muslim conquest of Christian lands as “migrations” by “empire builders”.

The politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture and stigmas on Christian civilization also indict Christianity for the same practices (e.g., sexism, slavery, persecution of out-groups) that they treat non-judgmentally, minimize, sugarcoat, or censor in Islam. Sanitized definitions of “jihad” that exclude religious intolerance or military aggression against non-Muslims – even though Islamic sources often include these among proper meanings of the term – which underwrite worldwide Muslim terrorism.

The most disturbing point in this whole diatribe is that the Texas Board of Education recently made national news when they updated their Texas history textbooks and included fewer African Americans and more individuals from others ethnicities, like Native Americans and Hispanics, as well as more conservative ideals like teaching about the founding fathers instead of European Enlightenment.

If you live in Texas, there is an amendment before the SBOE called the “Rives Resolution” that seeks to fix this. Most of what I wrote above comes directly from this resolution, which you can read HERE. You can write to the Texas State Board of Education members and encourage them to vote for this Resolution, please send an e-mail to the following address sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us. In the subject line, you will need to write, “To All Texas State Board of Education Members.” I’m not suggesting you do or don’t, but making the information available to you.

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