‘Diversity’ Perversity: NY Schools Teaching Whitewashed Islamic History
Adding grave insult to irony, while New York State public secondary school students are being indoctrinated to “appreciate” the moral and cultural superiority of Islamic civilization, Muslim students within the New York City area are being taught the opposite regarding Jews and Christians at Islamic educational centers. Raw Islamic Jew-hatred and anti-Christian statements are featured in these Islamic school curricula openly and unapologetically.
A three-month long Daily News investigation of textbooks widely used in New York city area Islamic schools by Larry Cohler-Esses, published March 30, 2003, demonstrated that foundational Islamic Anti-Semitic archetypes — based on central motifs in the Koran, hadith (traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad), and sira (earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad) — are being taught to American Muslim students. The report provided these examples of the blatant Anti-Semitism and Christianophobia being taught:
In Long Island City, Queens, for example, fifth- and sixth-graders at the Ideal Islamic School on 12th St. learn that Allah has revealed [pace Koran 2:61/3:112] that “the Jews killed their own prophets and disobeyed Allah.” … Yet a third book, in use at the Ideal school, describes the hostile relations between Jews and the [Muslim prophet] Muhammad in Medina in the 7th century. “The reasons for Jewish hostility lies in their general characteristics,” the book says. Numerous Koranic citations follow with negative references to Jews — for example, “You will ever find them deceitful, except for a few of them.” [3:71; 4:46]
AdvertisementOn Jewish hostility to Islam: “The reasons for Jewish hostility toward the Muslims of 7th century Medina lies in their general characteristics described in the Koran.” Example: “You will find the most implacable of men in their enmity to the faithful are the Jews and the pagans.” [Koran 5:82; from a textbook The Messenger of Allah, p. 34; targeting Grades 6-9]
The book What Islam Is All About states that: “The Christians also worship statues. Many Jews and Christians,” the book says, “lead such decadent and immoral lives that lying, alcohol, nudity, pornography, racism, foul language, premarital sex, homosexuality and everything else are accepted in their society, churches and synagogues.”
When questioned for Cohler-Esses’ Daily News story on New York-area Islamic school textbooks, Yahiya Emerick, head of a Queens-based nonprofit curriculum development project for the Islamic Foundation of North America, defended the language in these books — denying they were inflammatory. Emerick opined:
Islam, like any belief system, believes its program is better than others. I don’t feel embarrassed to say that … [The books] are directed to kids in a Muslim educational environment. They must learn and appreciate there are differences between what they have and what other religions teach. It’s telling kids that we have our own tradition.
As a 1973 Regents Scholarship award winner in high school — an award which set me on a career trajectory through the New York State school system that included physical therapy and ultimately medical degrees, both at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn — I am outraged at the destructive hijacking of a great public system of education for the purpose of dangerous cultural relativist indoctrination.
The New York State Regents exams themselves now reflect the corrosive “success” of a sustained campaign of Islamophilic historical negationism. Cultural jihadism has achieved an ominous, and let us hope temporary victory, to the great detriment of New York City’s secondary school children, their parents, and society at large.
Fine. Let’s play their game. Wherever they went, the Conquistadors brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning. From about the fifteenth century down to the present, their early cultural transformation of middle-America was superior in many ways to that of the Aztecs and Mayans.
Agreed. For instance, despite its occasional lapses, Spanish Christianity banished human sacrifice in Central and South America. Islam is still practicing human sacrifice in the form of beheadings and stonings.
And the Conquistador’s transformation of middle America was made possible by the trail blazing Columbus. And Columbus was only possible because of the Spanish Crown’s re-conquest of Spain from the more advanced Muslims. And had not the advanced Muslims shut down the Eastern Med route to the far east there would have been no need for the Spanish Crown to fund the Columbus expedition to the east by going west! See, the Western “rape” of the New World was an accidental byproduct of the Islamic conquest of Spain. (That should be worth two credits) Meanwhile, having lost Spain to the barbarians, advanced Islam continued on with the sub-saharan slave trade and costal piracy to get by, and even though dominating the fertile crescent, the cross roads of major civilizations, superior Islam opted to do without the printing press revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and forgo the wheel for basic land transportation up until the nineteenth century, relying on the donkey, horse, and camel out of advanced ecological concerns for nature.
On the other hand, had the Jews conquered Spain. All males would have been forced to circumcision and forced to study. The result would have be the proliferation of accountants, lawyers and doctors. The women on the other hand would have been given crash courses on how to be a Jewish princess. All mother-in-laws would have been made intolerable. The Americas would have been conquered and converted into one huge Indian Casino and hotel chain. Thank G-d for all his wisdom in letting a superior civilization take charge instead.
This is just one of the possibilities of history. Go figure the odds. Place your bets gentlemen, place your bets.
The SPLC’s newsletter, “Teaching Tolerance”, has this article in its current issue:
Commemorate 9/11 by Addressing Islamophobia
This week, we are urging educators to teach about Islam and to talk about Islamophobia. It’s time to stand up for our Muslim students and for tolerance.
TeachingTolerance@newsletter.tolerance.org
Modern liberals are just sooooo into suicide.
They seek to financially, morally and culturally destroy their own nation by any means necessary, as quickly as possible.
One would think that professional educators would be our last line of defense against intentionally lieing to children about historical events. But since American educators are now overwhelmingly liberals, all factors, including the truth, are subborned to their overall goal of national and cultural suicide.
Oh, that destructive, psychotic assho– Soros is probably so very proud of these teachers.
The same thing seems to be happening throughout most of the western world:
a href=http://1389blog.com/2010/08/24/aussie-muslims-and-curriculum-corruption/ rel=nofollowAussie Muslims and Curriculum Corruption/a
Oh, it’s OK. Next week, we are urging educators to teach about the Spanish Empire and to talk about the widespread myths about the Conquistadors. It’s time to stand up for our Spanish students and for tolerance.
“Award 1 credit (up to a maximum of 2 credits) for each different way the Conquistadors improved the lives of the Aztecs according to Daniel Roselle.”
This article is very important and I am personally grateful to Andrew Bostom for it. The historical revisionism along rigid PC lines that Bostom outlines here is not limited to New York, nor is it limited to Islam; it is all pervasive. Teachers are hired and fired, textbooks and courses are selected and made mandatory, students are passed, funded, and mentored, based on adherence to PC guidelines. Children are not so much educated as indoctrinated, and few students have the gifts to struggle out of those strictures. America’s young peoples’ minds are being imprisoned. What is anyone, besides heroes like Andrew Bostom, doing about it?
If Islamic rule in Spain was so great, why did the Spanish throw them out?
Very good question, Joe. I have some history I may try to type in tomorrow on the wonderful tolerance of the Muslim in Spain at the time mentioned in history.
As for south of the Rio Grand how come they remained in Poverty while the United States prospered?
as I mentioned in the above post I wanted to copy some specific history but it took me longer than I expected. Here is the excerpt and enough information for an interested party to follow up on it. Since the Cordoba house is in current news and is spelled Cordova here we are taking about the Muslim reign in Spain.
Thielman J. van Braght compiled his Martyr’s Mirror around 1660 in the Dutch language and is currently available from Mennonite Publishing in Moundridge, Kansas, This account is found on pages 255-57 This seems to be the fifth English edition.
A lamentable persection of the Christians in the region of Cordova, by the Arabians, instituted by their king habdarrhaghman, A, D, 923
A, D, 923. a terrible persecution was raised by th rabians against the Christian believers, in the region of Cordova, This occoured mainly through the wockedness of the Arabian King Habdarrhman IV, who allowed himself to be called ;protector of the law of God, and king of the believers; but, being filled with bitter hatred against the true law of Jesus Chist, and, consequently, also against the true /christian believrs, he considered and declared all Christians unbelievers and despisers of the law of God. But he did not stop at this, but raged against them in an awful manner, yea, and persecuted them with fire and sword. One thing, however, in connection with this grieves us to the very heart, namely, that the records of the pious witnesses of Jesus Christ who were killed by him, Have all been lost, except if two, namely, Egenia and a youth of thirteen years of whom we we shall give an account pesently. Touching said persecution compare A. Mell., 2d book, fol. 312, col. 2, withy Ruderic., Archiep.Tolet., and Alii.Rev, Hisp. Script.
Then follows the account of the beheading of Euginia and the boy having his arms and legs cut off then finally beheaded,. The full account is longer than i wish to copy here but does raise some disturbing questions about the religion of the Arabian king. This information is currently available in print but as far as I know is not available on line.
Hmmm…..let’s see
1. Helped the people of Spain in their weight reduction program by removing their heads for being infidels.
2. Aided urban renewal by demolishing older Catholic churches and replacing them with newer mosques, thereby increasing property values.
Medieval Christian Spain was brutally conquered by waves of jihad wars (pp. 56-60) beginning in the early 8th century, involving massacre, pillage, deportation, and mass enslavement
Oh please. Medieval Europe in general was one never-ending wave of wars, massacres, pillage, deportation, etc …
I am of Spanish background. It is acknowledged by most Spaniards that the Islamic period was indeed one of high art, learning, and knowledge (the rest of Spain was in the dark ages). Spain during that period, as elsewhere in the medieval world, was one of constantly warring kingdoms – Christians against Christians, Muslims against Muslims, Christians and Muslims against each other, Christians and Muslims against other Muslim kingdoms, etc …Spanish Christians also practiced slavery.
Wonder if the traitors would be giving islam so much love if they didn’t have OIL ???
Don’t see where oil has anything to do with this. The Muslim is spirit driven while the Marxist are material driven. They would be the ones that would have more concern about the oil. But they are also the ones that push our environmentalism that is intent of pushing us all back to the stone age. And that, I also think, is spirit driven. This driving spirit has no place for reason or justice and, above all is virulently belligerent and violent. There is no way we can ever make peace with this spirit.
The political left use academia to brainwash our youth using pro-marxist’s tripe thus it’s no surprise they’d give Islam Supremacy status over other faiths historically Islam and fascism are the opposite sides of the same coin.
The political left have used Islamophobia to hyjack September 11 events, instead of that day being dedicated to the innocent lives slaughtered by Muslim extremists the day is now being used to promote Islam in our schools via stopping Islamophiba. Muslims are now the victims of 9/11 not the innocents who were murdered by their faith.
Maybe these people need to judge themselves unworthy of the mercy of God.** Jas 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. ** The destruction of the twin towers and the planes were a wanton act of violence with no more justification than Cain killing his brother, Abel. Yet this religion rejoiced in that slaughter. I believe that would activate this verse. ** Mt 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ** This judgment may seem slow to us but it is swift in the eyes of God while he waits on those who will to be converted.
Teach this:
Here are the 4 stages of Islamic Conquest of a host Nation: America………..wake up!
http://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/4-stages-of-islamic-conquest/
Muslims “Mark their Conquests” just like dogs do with urine:
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/muslims-are-like-dogs/#comment-50592
It is now in America…………Sharia Law. Will YOU allow this to happen where you live?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BVyKPYM2cw&feature=related
Here is what is going to happen to the United States very soon as it is already happening in France, Germany, Sweeden, Finland and many more countries.
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/09/02/cbn-islamization-of-paris-a-warning-to-the-west/#idc-container
This is now happening in Europe and will repeat itself in America: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/muslims-will-become-majority-in-europe-senior-vatican-official-warns/
The Muslims loved learning so much that they burned every book in the Great Library of Alexandria.
They loved art so much that they effaced artwork that depicted humans.
BTW, didn’t anyone tell these PC people that “Beauty” is culturally defined?
Hey, Harry, the Great Library of Alexandria was burnt way before the 8th century AD. Just saying.
Like The Tao said, Medieval Europe was one endless wave of wars. Islam back in those days was far more just and progressive than it is these days; Cordoba in Al-Andalus was a hub of learning and science.
And by the way, anyone even bothering to compare Conquistadors to muslim conquerors.. just don’t. It shows how terribly ignorant you are of the situation in the Americas.
Creeping Sharia in the United States
In some ways, it speaks of the goodness of America that we have had such difficulty coming to grips with the challenge of radical Islamists. It is our very commitment to religious liberty that makes us uncomfortable with defining our enemies in a way that appears linked with religious belief.
However, America’s commitment to religious liberty has given radical Islamists a potent rhetorical weapon in their pursuit of sharia supremacy. In a deliberately dishonest campaign exploiting our belief in religious liberty, radical Islamists are actively engaged in a public relations campaign to try and browbeat and guilt Americans (and other Western countries) to accept the imposition of sharia in certain communities, no matter how deeply sharia law is in conflict with the protections afforded by the civil law and the democratic values undergirding our constitutional system.
The problem of creeping sharia is most visibly on display in France and in the United Kingdom, where there are Muslim enclaves in which the police have surrendered authority and sharia reigns. However, worrisome cases are starting to emerge in the United States that show sharia is coming here. Andy McCarthy’s writings, including his new book The Grand Jihad, have been invaluable in tracking instances in which the American government and major public institutions have been unwilling to assert the protections of American law and American values over sharia’s religious code. Some examples include:
In June 2009, a New Jersey state judge rejected an allegation that a Muslim man who punished his wife with pain for hours and then raped her repeatedly was guilty of criminal sexual assault, citing his religious beliefs as proof that he did not believe he was acting in a criminal matter. “This court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.” Thankfully, this ruling was reversed in an appellate court.
In May 2008, a disabled student at a public college being assisted by a dog was threatened by Muslim members of the student body, who were reluctant to touch the animal by the prescription of sharia. The school, St. Cloud State, chose not to engage the Muslim community, but simply gave the student credit without actually fulfilling the class hours so as to avoid conflict.
In a similar instance in November 2009, a high school senior in Owatonna, Minn., was suspended in order to protect him from the threat of violence by radical Islamists when he wrote an essay about the special privileges afforded his Somali Muslim counterparts in the school environment.
In order to accommodate sharia’s prohibition of interest payments in financial transactions, the state of Minnesota buys homes from realtors and re-sells them to Muslims at an up-front price. It is simply not the function of government to use tax money to create financial transactions that correspond to a religious code. Moreover, it is a strategy to create a precedent for legal recognition of sharia within U.S. law.
Amazingly, there are strong allegations that the United States now owns the largest provider of sharia financing in the world: AIG.
Last month, police in Dearborn, Mich., which has a large Muslim population, arrested Christian missionaries for handing out copies of the Gospel of St. John on charges of “disturbing the peace.” They were doing so on a public street outside an Arab festival in a way that is completely permissible by law, but, of course, forbidden by sharia’s rules on proselytizing. This is a clear case of freedom of speech and the exercise of religious freedom being sacrificed in deference to sharia’s intolerance against the preaching of religions other than Islam.
Shockingly, sharia honor killings-in which Muslim women are murdered by their husbands, brothers or other male family members for dishonoring their family-are also on the rise in America but do not receive national attention because they are considered “domestic disturbances.” (A recent article in Marie Claire Magazine highlights recent cases and the efforts to bring national attention to this horrifying trend.)
Cases like this will become all the more common as radical Islamists grow more and more aggressive in the United States.
When we refer back to the Law of Moses as it pertained to the promised land. The stranger was not allowed to practice his pagan beliefs. Because the Israelites did not follow this teaching these pagan idols and doctrines became a snare to Israel just as Sharia is becoming a snare to us. The Bible does give sound instruction on how to deal with this but, just as with Israel of old, we choose to disregard that teaching and so fall victim of our enemies doctrines. These things ought not to be. We still have the power of choice.
Do the Liberal (Progressives) sheep of America know what “The Cordoba Initiative is? Of course they don’t.
A Masque Next To Ground Zero by Hal Lindsey
The plan is to build a 13-story Muslim mosque and cultural center literally only a few hundred feet from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The leader of the project, Imam Abdul Rauf, says that the mosque is intended as a gesture to build “bridges between faiths.” Another proponent claims that the mosque, which will occupy the site of a 152-year old building that suffered damage in the 9/11 attack, is really a “celebration of America’s religious tolerance.” Why would a religion founded on fealty to one law, one leader, and one god — a religion whose modern defining characteristic is its intolerance of all other faiths and traditions — actually “celebrate” America’s religious diversity. That’s the very thing Islam HATES about us. How could a religion that reduces women and girls to mere chattel and considers all non-Muslims to be second-class citizens conceivably “celebrate” a non-Muslim society that believes all humans are created equal in God’s sight? It’s laughable. Yet our leaders and the media-types have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. Are they that stupid or have they been intimidated into acquiescence? New York City already has more than 100 mosques. We’ve already proven that we really are an open, tolerant society. To say with a straight face that this is Islam’s celebration of America’s religious tolerance would be like the Southern Baptists building a church in Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District to “celebrate” Holland’s sexual promiscuity. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t make sense.
I’ll tell you why the Muslims insist on putting a 13-story mega-mosque (which, by the way, will eerily resemble a World Trade Center tower) within earshot of Ground Zero. It will be nothing less than a traditional act of Islamic triumphalism. It’s a symbol of conquest. Although the Muslims have changed the name of the proposed structure to “Park 51 Mosque,” the campaign to build it is still called “The Cordoba Initiative.” For all of you I’m going to share with you a short history lesson about the symbolism of “Cordoba” in the Islamic mind. And trust me, the Muslims are big on symbolism.
The world should know that the ‘Cordoba Initiative,’ the New York City based organization desiring to construct a massive Islamic house of prayer at ‘Ground Zero,’ has posted on its website, a peculiar and disingenuous statement indicating the desire to bring back the atmosphere of, “interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight hundred years ago.”
I point this out because contemporary scholarship has clearly demonstrated that there was no ‘harmony’ or ‘prosperity’ for non-Muslims in Islamic Spain. The Cordoba Initiative is attempting to revisit some sort of mythical “tolerance and respect” which never existed.
What is irrefutable is that living under Islam, the non-Muslim population was always mandated to submit to Islam, accept discriminatory laws, and make payment of a mandatory Quranic tax imposed upon every non-Muslim. For a period of about 800 years, most of Spain was ruled by Muslims and this area was known as ‘Al-Andalus.’ Islamic rule ended in 1492, when the city of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Western Europe, capitulated to the Spanish Catholics.
The Cordoba Initiative is an organization whose very name makes reference to what was, 1,000 years ago, one of the world’s most advanced cities, Cordoba, Al-Andalus (Spain). This was a city that was politically and religiously dominated by Islam, and a city that was conquered by jihad (holy war). Today, there are Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda that have a dream of seeing a pan-Islamic world that would extend from old Al-Andalus (Spain). This is based upon Islam’s principle of dar-al-Islam, which means a world where Islamic sovereignty prevails over the citizenry. Dar-al-Islam is attained through jihad and the media is replete with Al- Qaeda’s calls for jihad and their claims to Al-Andalus and its major cities such as Cordoba.
Clearly, Islamic Cordoba was once a city where a number of intellectual Muslims such as Averroes (Ibn-Rushd), influenced European thought with Arab philosophy related to the scientific teachings of Aristotle. In mathematics, the Arabs built upon the foundations of Greek mathematicians. At one point there were dozens of free schools in Cordoba for the education of poor Arabs and at some point there existed some 600 mosques. However, even with all of this scholastic and societal grandeur, the route to get to such a point of magnificence was through violent warfare.
Not only were successive battles for Spanish cities bloody, but desiring more than Spain–the Arabs declared a jihad against France, then crossed the Pyrenees, and in successive swarms spread over the southern regions of the French countryside, slaughtering the Christians by thousands, and burning their churches to the ground before being halted.
We must remember that a practice associated with conquering Islamic armies was the construction of a mosque at the location where their triumphant battle was won. Thus, this modern Islamic organization is seeking to build a mosque at the site of 9/11 attack—an attack which was carried out by 19 Muslim hijackers who considered their mission holy war.
Insomuch, it is this man’s opinion that a Muslim house of prayer that would be cemented in the ashes of catastrophe at the foot of New York’s lost Twin Towers would be a symbolic victory flag for Muslims who seek the destruction of America. Further, it is my honest opinion that no matter how the construction of a mosque at ‘Ground Zero’ may be perceived by well-meaning Americans, the construction of a mosque on the spot where Al-Qaeda brought jihad to the United States will unquestionably represent victory to the worldwide forces of Radical Islam.
What bothers me, though, is the double standard. Diners at a senior citizens center in Georgia can’t publicly say grace over a federally-subsidized meal. The Left says that amounts to a government endorsement of religion. But the President can make a pronouncement defining Islamic theology at a Ramadan dinner in the White House, and that ISN’T a government endorsement of religion?
We should be judging by the fruit rather than the rhetoric. The universal fruit is poverty and oppression. The United States set out on raw land and a belief in Liberty which set us free to follow any lawful pursuit that led to a great surge in prosperity. The Palestinians at, this time, are choosing violence over progress. This has been the normal fruit of this way. Greed, envy and violence never lead to prosperity so their system is corrupt before it starts. By their fruit you shall know them and this fruit is rotten to the core.
WE HAVE GOT to get the liberal, Marxist teachers OUT of our schools… and forget burning the Koran… burn the #O#$U school books and start over!!! Do the people of New York have a death wish? What are they thinking allowing this GARBAGE to be taught in the schools.
Discrimination is choice by displacement. When I make a choice among several options it does not mean I will make the same choice every time or that I have a dislike for those things not chosen. If we choose the righteousness of our God we displace the unrighteousness of this world. We need to do more displacing.
Always question Muslims when they throw a lot of BS at us. When the Muslims talk of the advancements of Muslim medicines, ask them to give the names of these so-called medicines. Ask them to give the names of the Muslim medicines that are in use today. They can’t because their “medicine” is a lot of BS.
Did you know that Islamism condemns art? There isn’t any Muslim art anywhere. Nevertheless, ask the Muslims to show some of their art. Ask the Muslims to give the names of their artists. They can’t because they didn’t have artists.
Did the Muslims invent the airplane, telephone, telegraph, computers, radio, television, cars, anything of great value that is in use today? Hell no they didn’t. Nevertheless, ask them to name some of their great “inventions.” Paste the Muslims against the wall by challenging them.
Did you know that Muslims took over 57 countries, and that all of these countries are backward Muslim Third World Countries? It’s true. Some Muslims do advance but that’s because they learn from Christian countries.
Also, be careful of Muslim lies. They can lie only in the way that Muslims can lie. Those idiots are still trying to convince the world that “Islam is the religion of peace.”
Very good thoughts. Who developed Saudi oil? What major companies are of Muslim origin? Yes, the Saudis have a lot of money but where did it come from? The Jews cast out of Gaza are again carrying their own weight and peacefully producing needed products while the Palestinians that cast them out are still depending on handouts. If they can’t carry their own weight and have a little left over what principles do they have that we should follow?
I am my college professor’s favorite pupil. He calls himself a “philosophical progressive” (whatever that means) and he tells wonderful stories about Mao Zedong and how deeply spirtual it is to become a Progressive. He told us not to pay any attention to those horrible rumors that the Conservatives preach to us about Brother Mao’s murder of 60 million. I know it’s a lie, that’s what a girl on Facebook said. After all, President Obama had a Mao ornamate hanging fron the White House Christmas tree, right on cool. After learning all of these new political ideas, I went out and got the latest Che Guevara t-shirt. It is so rad. My professor went to Harvard like Obama did so I know he loves Che too. My professor said Hollywood helped to revive another leftist martyr but my uncle (who was in the Army) said Hollywood has dutifully churned out yet another cinematic agitprop paean and that I should read to try to discern why many supposedly democratic, civil libertarian liberals still swoon over this Stalinist mass-murderer. What ever that means, later dude.