Texas Board of Education Approves Plan to Teach That 9/11 is Tied to Radical Islam
“Several Democratic State Board of Education members pushed back against the wording, but the Republican-majority board still approved that section and the other changes on Friday.”
I don’t know why this is considered controversial. Isn’t this what happened?
From FOX News and reprinted in the New York Post:
Texas Board of Education approves controversial new high school curriculum tying ‘radical Islam’ to 9/11 attacks
The Texas Board of Education gave final approval to changes to the state’s high school social studies curriculum, a controversial move that will impact how students are taught about Islam and Christianity.
The amended social studies curriculum, which covers US history, government and world geography, comes after dozens of people gave public testimony, with most expressing their opposition to the finalized version.
The board approved language asserting that “radical Islam” motivated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks rather than taking a more narrow focus on the terrorist groups involved in the attack.
The material also requires students to study early Islam through Prophet Muhammad’s “brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes,” the “normalization of slavery” and the taking of female captives as “harem slaves.”
Several Democratic State Board of Education members pushed back against the wording, but the Republican-majority board still approved that section and the other changes on Friday.
Muslim groups and students, as well as multiple curriculum experts, also spoke out against the new changes.
“I feel attacked, as if my religion doesn’t belong,” Habiiba Quresh, a 15-year-old Muslim student, told the board, according to The Texas Tribune. “I shouldn’t have to defend my religion in the middle of history class because of one sentence someone on this board wrote.”
At least three of the board-appointed curriculum experts also warned against the new language.
Andrea Hutchison, a social studies curriculum coordinator for Prosper ISD, argued the material did not “hold up to close historical scrutiny,” according to the outlet. Robert Koons, a philosophy professor at UT-Austin, said most nonreligious scholars find the source of the claims “not very reliable,” adding that he would warn against including material that is “not based on well-established secular sources.”
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“I feel attacked, as if my religion doesn’t belong,” Habiiba Quresh, a 15-year-old Muslim student, told the board, according to The Texas Tribune. “I shouldn’t have to defend my religion in the middle of history class because of one sentence someone on this board wrote.”
You mean, like the Crusades? Or the Inquisition? Or the Salem Witch Trials? Or the Boxer Rebellion?
Cope, seethe, and grow up, kid. The world ain’t all about you.
I bet this child has no awareness of the religious repression that happened to his namesake, in Waco, Texas. That is what a real religious attack looks like.
If the kid’s religion is radical islam, then what he, she, or it is saying is on point. Of course, that would also mean that he, she, or it would have just confessed to being a radical muslim, with all that entails.
But note that this person feels the need to defend…what, exactly? That fellow travelers flew planes into buildings 25 years ago? And that today’s fellow travelers are terrorists who even other arab countries now despise? Either he is proud of those actions [“some people did…something”] and doesn’t need to defend, or they loath the hateful actions, and should denounce them.
But no—he/she/it merely attacks a law requiring teaching what actually happened.
Methinks the person doth protest too much.
“Andrea Hutchison, a social studies curriculum coordinator for Prosper ISD, argued the material did not “hold up to close historical scrutiny,” according to the outlet….”
Oh, really? Which part doesn’t withstand scrutiny? According to her online CV, she received her bachelor’s degree in 2009, making her ~13 or 14 on 9/11. Did she not watch or read the news?
You want your thesis extensively autopsied?
Because this is how you get your thesis autopsied.
“Radical Islam”
Is there any other kind?