Unreal: New York High School Students Being Given Exams Praising Islam as a “Religion of Peace,” Slamming Christianity as Intolerant
From Weasel Zippers.
(NY Post)- State testmakers played favorites when quizzing high-schoolers on world religions — giving Islam and Buddhism the kid-gloves treatment while socking it to Christianity, critics say.
Teachers complain that the reading selections from the Regents exam in global history and geography given last week featured glowing passages pertaining to Muslim society but much more critical essay excerpts on the subject of Christianity.
“There should have been a little balance in there,” said one Brooklyn teacher who administered the exam but did not want to be identified.
“To me, this was offensive because it’s just so inappropriate and the timing of it was piss-poor,” he added, referring to the debate over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero.
The most troubling passage came from Daniel Roselle’s “A World History: A Cultural Approach,” observers said.
The passage reads: “Wherever they went, the Moslems [sic] brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that of western Christendom.”
Meanwhile, an excerpt listing the common procedures used by Christian friars to introduce the religion in Latin America stated that “idols, temples and other material evidences of paganism [were] destroyed,” and “Christian buildings [were] often constructed on sites of destroyed native temples” — and built with free Indian labor, to boot.
“I can see why some people might see these questions as skewed,” said Mark MacWilliams, a religious-studies professor at St. Lawrence University in upstate Canton. “Why does the exam seem to have only documents that portray Islam as a religion of peace, civilization and refinement, while it includes documents about Christianity that show it was anything but peaceful in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?"
9 comments:
Pastorius,
What is it with the people in charge of our educational system. I know they've done things like this before, but its still inexcusable!
Another fine example why the kids in our house are getting unschooled and instead are home educated in a very NON cookie cutter way....more than anything I want our children to think for themselves
actions like these are clearly indicative of these folks having their head lodged in a tight dark place where things were meant to exit!
The truth is that Islam's conquests were at least as brutal. The religion was very much spread by the sword with native populations given the choice of forced conversion or death and mosques built on the victims' holy sites. Islam institutionalized the concept of merely tolerating 'infidels' as second class citizens, forcing them to pay a dhimmi tax. Why are these truths supressed?
and how many millions of $$$$ are we 'giving' to refurbish mosques in foreign lands- just heard about the hidden aspect of a recently passed bill via Walter Williams today---
Christians have been asleep and playing 'fair'-and
nice' --
I am not surprised by the info on this post...
carol-CS
The passage reads: “Wherever they went, the Moslems [sic] brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that of western Christendom.”
Meanwhile, an excerpt listing the common procedures used by Christian friars to introduce the religion in Latin America stated that “idols, temples and other material evidences of paganism [were] destroyed,” and “Christian buildings [were] often constructed on sites of destroyed native temples” — and built with free Indian labor, to boot.
I see this stuff all the time -- maybe not as bluntly stated but stated, nonetheless. I see this stuff in textbooks and on history DVD's.
FWIW, Glenn Beck is running with this story right now. If you missed it, it will probably be available here tomorrow:
WatchGlennBeck.com
He is pointedly addressing the issue of Christianity represented as building triumphalist churches over prior worship structures - specifically calling out the Hagia Sophia and it's history with Islam.
He also has David Baron, the founder of WallBuilders.com, an organization dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes with an emphasis on our moral, religous and constitutional heritage. David is author of numerous best-selling works and a national award-winning historian who brings a fresh and accurate perspective to history. Check out the documentary "American History in Black and White" online at YouTube to get a taste of what he offers, or watch this episode of Glenn Beck's Founder's Friday - Black American Founding Fathers . . .verrrrry interesting lost history to explore.
Man, oh man, you have got to watch this Glenn Beck show airing right now. In it, Beck and Barton discuss how our American school textbooks are being re-written to tell some risable tall tales of Islam's contributions. "Peter Salem", a black slave was a hero of the American Revolution. Islamic interests have co-opted this character and have the texts claiming that his name was "Saleem", as in Arabic. And somehow contrived Salem, Massachussets coming from legend as a Jewish merchant claiming it's name was derived from shalom, which in Arabic was referring to the Arabic version of peace 'salaam'. BASTARDS!
Damn glad Rauf opened this can of worms. He has no idea the hornets nest he has disturbed with his arrogance.
In mid-April of 2009 I began writing a book on the history of ideas, "A Genealogy of Left Dhimmif Fascism." It's seven chapters long, also with and introduction and conclusion. I wrote from mid-April to the end of December when my friend and business partner died, at which point I took time off till mid-July. I am now writing chapter seven, the last, and am close to finishing part one of three. I should be finished with the actual writing by the end of September at the latest, all of this done in long-hand on foolscap. I must type everything and then edit and revise till I have a coherent and possibly well-written book for a public market.
This work is about the Modern world and how ideas have brought us to assumptions we likely do not fully understand. I look into ideas such as alienation, collectivism, ecology, and democracy. No one person can do justice to a history of ideas this broad; so my survey is just one attempt to give readers a broad understanding of how we come to think we think the things we think.
Is Sarah Palin stupid? We might think this is an important question if we don't know that it arises from the eugenics movement of the mid-nineteenth century, that eugenics is originally a movement that caught on among intellectuals in New York and Michigan in the 1920s and spread through the intelligentsia till it trickles down to kids t community colleges today to the point they think they think it's important that Obama is the smartest man in the world. These same people might not know that Maragert Sanger is a eugenicist who wanted to wipe out the "feeble-minded" to make the world a better place for her friends. She, like many today, wanted to rid the world of "stupid" people like Sarah Palin. This idea was highly attractive to the German intelligentsia, many of whom were interested deeply in a "good" life for good people and a world at one with the earth.
I look, therefore at Ernst Haekel, among others, to see the rise of the ecology and it's most notable project for many today, the autobahn.
Racism? Think Arthur de Gobineau. Multi-culturalism? Think Johann von Herder. And so it goes. I cover a lot of ground and many thinkers who have contributed to our ideas as we have them without knowledge of their origins.
I have a lot of typing to do to make this project accessible to the public, and I cannot do that here in Canada. I need some long months of dedicated time off to sit and pound the keyboard to make even a first draft of this available to the general reader. From what I know of what I've written so far I see this is valuable to many of us. Thus, I'm going to move to a place where I have a chance to live cheaply and type till this is more or less complete: I'm thinking of moving to Laos.
I've saved as much money as is possible in my circumstances so I can live and type and produce what I think is a proper corrective to the nonsense we take as "educated" discourse in our time. I think this work is valuable. I don't know that I will have the finances I need to complete it, even in Laos. Thus, prepare yourself for me coming with a begging bowl.
Enough for now.
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