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By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer April Castro, Associated Press Writer – Fri Sep 24, 7:02 pm ET
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as social conservative board members warned of what they describe as a creeping Middle Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry.
The board approved the one-page nonbinding resolution, which urges textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books, by a 7-5 vote.
Critics say it's another example of the ideological board trying to politicize public education in the Lone Star State. Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, which advocates for religious freedom, questioned why the resolution came at a time when "anti-Muslim rhetoric in this country has reached fever pitch."
"It's hard not to conclude that the misleading claims in this resolution are either based on ignorance of what's in the textbooks or, on the other hand, are an example of fear-mongering and playing politics," Miller said.
Future boards that will choose the state's next generation of social studies texts will not be bound by the resolution.
"This is an expression of the board's opinion, so it does not have an effect on any particular textbook," said David Anderson, the general counsel for the Texas Education Agency, when asked by a board member what legal weight the resolution would carry.
"So this is a cosmetic exercise?" asked board member Mavis Knight, a Democrat from Dallas.
The resolution cites world history books no longer used in Texas schools that it says devoted more lines of text to Islamic beliefs and practices than Christian ones. Chairwoman Gail Lowe said the resolution cites old books because board rules prohibit them from discussing current books more than 90 days after their adoption.
"I believe that it's happening in the current (social studies books) even though we can't cover that in the resolution," said board member Terri Leo, a Republican from Spring. The resolution sends a "clear message to publishers that it should not happen in the future."
The resolution also claims "more such discriminatory treatment of religion may occur as Middle Easterners buy into the U.S. public school textbook oligopoly, as they are doing now."
Two Republicans broke from their party to vote with the Democrats. Two Democrats — Mary Helen Berlanga of Corpus Christi and Rene Nunez of El Paso — were absent for the vote. The initial vote on the resolution was 7-6, but the board later reconsidered the measure. The second vote was 7-5 after a Democratic board member left the meeting.
The measure was suggested to the board this summer by Odessa businessman Randy Rives, who lost his Republican primary bid for a seat on the panel earlier this year. Members of a social conservative bloc of the board then asked Lowe to put the resolution on this week's agenda.
During public testimony, which included comments from activists as well as a handful of parents, Jonathan Saenz, a lobbyist for the conservative Liberty Institute, argued that the board was "doing the right thing ... to prevent any type of religious discrimination or treat any religion in a way that's incomplete."
Several times during the testimony, Lowe intervened, attempting to calm flaring tempers.
"The Board's mission, and Texas' future, is ill-served when the board chooses to use its limited meeting time to discuss and vote on discriminatory and politically motivated measures, such as this proposed resolution," said Frank Knaack, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.
The resolution concludes by warning publishers the "State Board of Education will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world's major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage space-wise and by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others."
Social conservatives control the 15-member board for now, although the landscape is set to change after one member of the bloc lost his primary election bid and another chose not to seek re-election. The board in recent years has become a battleground for social conservatives and liberal watchdogs, each accusing the other of imposing ideological agendas into what about 4.8 million public school students learn in Texas classrooms.
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This is a reply to # 1,696,810Personally, I'd llike to see Gov. Perry go through with the secession of Texas from the US. We could save alot of federal dollars. And we could ship all the right wing nuts down to live there. It would probably work well for all involved.- Re: Texas ed board adopts resolution... InCharge
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This is a reply to # 1,697,028Personally, I'd llike to see Gov. Perry go through with the secession of Texas from the US. We could save alot of federal dollars.
Twiki, your Chicago MBA is showing again. You have a habit of running with the first brain fart that dribbles into that pea brain of your without thinking it through to a logical conclusion.
To begin with, the federal tax monies given to Texas is just a fraction of what it collects from the citizens, and businesses in Texas.
If that isn't enough, think of the extra burden this would be to that idiotic obummer healthcare. All those Texans not having to buy insurance, or all the Insurance companies that would do business in Texas and create competition that would bring down the cost making insurance cheaper in the state.
The state could focus on preventative health through education, and higher taxes on the junk food, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries. Allowing, and even promoting alternative health modalities, and herbal supplaments.
And we could ship all the right wing nuts down to live there.
You wouldn't have to. People would move down there in droves further weakening the federal tax, and obummer would finally have to fold his healthcare fiasco.
Texas would ship all the illegals to other states, lock the borders, and arm all the citizens. This would eliminate 90% of the crime. Texas would be what the US used to be.
I am ready to move as soon as secession happens.
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This is a reply to # 1,697,098I'll give you a big going away party when you leave - Champagne will be on me!!!!
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This is a reply to # 1,697,116I'll give you a big going away party when you leave - Champagne will be on me!!!!
That's a laugh. With obummer, reid, and pelosi getting their pink slips either in November, or 2012, and ACORN losing their federal funding, you probably won't have a pot to p-ss in, or a window to throw it out of. You better save your money. Besides you already are on the hook for my move to Texas.
And we could ship all the right wing nuts down to live there.
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This is a reply to # 1,697,028Tiki what would all the liberal leach balls like you do if all those tax paying right wingers left you slackers to fend for yourself beside dumpster diving for dinner !- Re: Texas ed board adopts resolution... gaving
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This is a reply to # 1,697,220If Tiki has an MBA from University of Chicago, as In Charge says, I doubt that she is dumpster diving. She is probably paying a lot more in taxes than you are (Ryan) since it seems that you have so much time on your hands that you could not possibly have a job. So I would keep the Tax Issue to a minimum.- Re: Texas ed board adopts resolution... RyanD
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This is a reply to # 1,697,305Typical Liberal ASSumpton! Twiki is a liberal and an atheist her word means zilch! Beside m*o*o*n I was speaking in general terms,, does that elude you ? How ever I'm happy to see I'm tweaking all you liberal twits! - Re: Texas ed board adopts resolution... InCharge
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If Tiki has an MBA from University of Chicago, as In Charge says, I doubt that she is dumpster diving.
I never said that. I said her Chicago MBA, which if she has one was gotten by dumpster diving, probably with the help of ACORN.
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This is a reply to # 1,697,220"Tiki what would all the liberal leach balls like you do if all those tax paying right wingers left you slackers to fend for yourself beside dumpster diving for dinner !"
In the post below, found at //www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1696821,
RyanD states that:
"Isn't it Liberals who constantly use name calling and labels to coerce consensus,,like calling patriotic americans red necks and clansmen, is it not liberal fascist who label constitutionalists terrorists, is it not the liberal fascist who label Global warming skeptics as deniers ala holocaust deniers."
Isn't it knuckle dragging Bible thumping creationist adulterers that call Democrat voters names to coerce consensus like "dumpster divers", "liberals", "slackers"?
Is that what you mean?
You're so deep in hypocrisy you can barely breathe. You love running your mouth off without any input from your brain. And that's why nothing you have to say is worth anything.- Re: RyanD fumbles the ball again! RyanD
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This is a reply to # 1,698,108It's the only language you liberal fascist understand! The term common sense is not in your mental makeup and anti intellectualism rules your agenda! Like a dog, sometimes you have no choice but to kick it in its ass!
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This is a reply to # 1,698,304I have never kicked a dog in the ass. But then I am not a self proclaimed christian like yourself. Apparently we have different operating systems.
BTW the liberal fascist term you came up with to label anything that is contrary to your misguided beliefs means absolutely nothing. Is simply shows a lack of understanding on important issues of our day. This left/right thing that you and a few others have fallen for on this site keeps you bound.
Enjoy the magic show that the elite parades in front of you. Just don;t expect others to fall for it like you have.
Label away.... but that labeling defines you more than it does your intended target. ;-)
The grunting and jumbling and combining of buzzwords to get attention with no meaning behind is just for bonus points.
So then if everyone that doesn't fit your dysfunctional mold of christianity (guy in the sky syndrome) is a "liberal fascist:" as you label them, then perhaps a working label for you is "useful idiot." It is a term used that identifies a person that is conditioned to parrot sensibilities that drive an agenda. In this case the agenda is furthering the cause of separation and allowing the PTB to keep their place.
Now try not to just react to this but actually put some thought into your comeback. Try not to cut and paste articles to speak for you either. Explain why you think I am a fascist (first look up the term) and according to you what does "left" actually mean.
If you just want to pass this off with your usual grunting and insults because you need to take the superficial route, I will understand. Or maybe you want to explore and actually expand your mind a bit. Let's hope so because our world needs to move beyond the knuckle dragging stone age.- Re: RyanD fumbles the ball again! RyanD
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This is a reply to # 1,698,923lol Pathetic! You call me a Christian as if that's an insult! To me that just exposes how the boob tube and the mainstream media has your brain in their back pocket! A pop culture willfully ignorant trained seal!
You talk about life's infinite potential as if its sacred yet you consider human life trash ! And that's what you are inner creep, white trash, a ghetto headed piece of hypocritical street trash!
Better get back to the eugenics support forum you have to discuss the advantage of the modern world in the acceptance of ripping infants from their mothers womb for your convenience and the subject of coerced sterilization programs you sock puppets promote for the elitists goals of reducing the population of you useless eaters!
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This is a reply to # 1,698,951Hate to interrupt but just wanted to let you know, that no one inherits Christianity from their parents. Even if you are baptized as a baby. A person is not a Christian until they make a personal commitment to believe and confesses that belief with their mouth that Jesus is Lord.
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This is a reply to # 1,699,118Once under the influence of the kabalistic zionist love is thrown out the window, the murder of infants is proof of that. The vanity of believing that one is beyond god and can make life or death decisions over others with impunity leaves room only for the love of oneself! A sick narcissistic disease of the soul!
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This is a reply to # 1,699,149Looks like you never answered the question "How come a jew hater like you (see your post above) quotes Jonah Goldberg?
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This is a reply to # 1,699,152Ah the ignorance of the liberal dolt! I said Zionist ,,not a jew,, but a corruption of the jew! I really don't care what peoples religions are ,it's their politics that dictate their true intentions!
You know so little twiki why do you even bother wasting peoples time having to correct you constantly! That is the problem with liberals they have tunnel vision and see only what strokes their sick and needy ego..
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This is a reply to # 1,696,810BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Progressives pooh-pooh allegations of Christian-bashing in texts
Posted: September 23, 2010
12:15 am Eastern
By Brian Fitzpatrick
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Prompting squawks of derision from liberal commentators and reporters, the Texas State Board of Education is about to debate a resolution submitted by social conservative members calling for the rejection of social studies textbooks that favor Islam over Christianity.
The resolution cites examples of bias in textbooks currently in use across the nation and also texts used in Texas schools as recently as 2003. It demands that the Texas "SBOE will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world's major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage space-wise and/or by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others."
The resolution, scheduled for consideration at the SBOE meeting Friday, was proposed by Texas businessman Randy Rives, a conservative and a former candidate for a seat on the elected education board. The resolution includes four single-spaced pages of appendices presenting evidence of its allegations.
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"We're just trying to protect the school children of Texas," Rives told WND. "We have documented that in the past there was some pro-Islamic and anti-Christian literature in some of our textbooks. We want to put textbook companies on notice that if this happens again, it can cause your textbooks to be rejected."
Rives also noted the prominent national role Texas plays in textbook disputes.
"We are the largest buyer of textbooks in the United States, and publishers like to try to get others states to accept the same version [we use]. What we do in Texas influences the rest of the nation and we need to take that seriously, and make sure an agenda isn't pushed through the textbooks."
Rives conducted a study of texts approved by the SBOE for use in Texas in 2002 and 2003, and found numerous instances of bias. For example:
* Two texts devoting twice or nearly twice as much space to Muslim "beliefs, practices and holy writings" as to Christian beliefs.
* A text "dwelling on" a Christian massacre of Muslims, but "censoring" Muslim massacres of Christians during the Crusades.
* A text "claiming Islam 'brought untold wealth to thousands and a better life to millions,' while 'because of [Christian] religious zeal … many peoples died and many civilizations were destroyed."
The resolution also cites texts currently in use in American classrooms and finds the same problems:
* "Patterns of pejoratives toward Christians and superlatives toward Muslims, calling Crusaders aggressors, 'violent attackers' or 'invaders' while euphemizing Muslim conquest of Christian lands as 'migrations' by 'empire builders.'"
* "Politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture … and indicting Christianity for the same practices they … minimize, sugarcoat or censor in Islam."
* "Sanitized definitions of 'jihad' that exclude religious intolerance or military aggression against non-Muslims."
Rives told Alana Goodman of the Alexandria, Va.-based Culture and Media Institute, "In the social studies books we need to make sure that our democratic values are depicted and that's not just my opinion, that's what the Texas education code says."
Much to the dismay of the Dallas Morning News, the resolution also warns that "more such discriminatory treatment of religion may occur as Middle Easterners buy into the U.S. public school textbook oligopoly, as they are now doing."
DMN's Terrence Stutz reported that the resolution "offered no specific evidence of such investments." Stutz apparently did not bother to read Appendix III of the resolution, which cites a European press report that the Dubai royal family "was becoming 'a major shareholder' in the Education Media and Publishing Group."
EMPG, according to the resolution, "controls Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep and Harcourt Education, two of the most successful and established educational book publishers in the United States, together forming the largest player in the K-12 publishing segment."
As WND previously reported, American public school textbooks have been used to promote Islam, and publishing company executives are primarily responsible for the content of the texts.
DMN columnist Jacquielynn Floyd ranted, "Like a movie monster that won't stay dead, the crazy-eyed 'social conservative' faction of our ever-entertaining State Board of Education has caught us all off-guard once more, lurching back onto center stage amid a flurry of pitchforks and flaming torches."
Reporter Stutz failed to interview Randy Rives for his story, but he did speak with Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, which he describes as "a religious freedom group that has battled with social conservatives."
Miller accused board members of "putting politics ahead of just educating our kids," and, according to Stutz, argued that "current textbooks offer a balanced treatment of the world's religions."
On its website, Texas Freedom Network is calling the resolution "anti-Islam," dismisses the resolution as "superficial and grossly misleading" and attempts to refute it. But it is TFN’s rebuttal that appears to be misleading.
For example, TFN's first point asserts that Rives' claim of double the coverage for Islamic beliefs is incorrect, because Rives ignores lengthy discussions of the Christian church in history and Christian influence on politics, art and culture. Rives, however, specifies "beliefs, practices and holy writings" – in short, theology – not history and politics.
TFN's second point also misses the mark. The resolution criticizes a Prentice textbook for ignoring atrocities committed by the Muslim conqueror Tamerlane. TFN responds that textbooks by Glencoe and McDougal do mention Tamerlane's depredations – but the resolution wasn't addressing those texts.
Nevertheless, Lauri Lebo of the liberal site Religious Dispatches praises TFN's study as a "great critique."
Lebo concludes that, "Based on TFN's analysis, it appears board members, in putting together the resolution, simply glanced at the textbooks they're criticizing, rather than actually reading and comprehending the texts."
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Posted: February 11, 2010
12:50 am Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A state board of only 15 people will vote on whether to revise U.S. textbooks to omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
The Texas State Board of Education will also vote on a proposal to substitute the term "American" with "global citizen."
Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, is warning Americans to speak up before only eight people, with a majority vote, have a chance to literally rewrite American history.
He appeared on the "Huckabee Show" to explain why the board's vote matters to the rest of America. Staver said Texas and California are the two largest textbook purchasers in the nation.
"Whatever textbooks they select affect the rest of the country because publishers publish those kinds of books, and the rest of the country follows," he said.
But because of California's budget crisis, the state hasn't been able to purchase as many new textbooks, he explained. So the default is Texas.
"So when this 15-member board – eight people of that will make a majority – make a decision, it will affect the entire nation," Staver said.
Those eight people could decide what children will learn in various other parts of the country.
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According to Liberty Counsel, some of the suggestions that have come forward at various times include:
* Removing references to Daniel Boone, General George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.
* Including the cultural impact of hip-hop music, ACLU lawyer Clarence Darrow and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
* Replacing the term "American" with "global citizen" – stating that students need to be shaped "for responsible citizenship in a global society" without any mention of citizenship in American society.
* Replacing expansionism and free enterprise with imperialism and capitalism.
Staver said one proposal suggests the name of Nathan Hale, a patriot of the American Revolutionary War, be removed and replaced with the name of a man who invented fireman helmets. He also said one proposal suggests removal of references to Independence Day.
"Those are no good anymore," Staver told Mike Huckabee. "America is looked at, not as some country that gave liberty and freedom to others around the world, but as a global villain."
He warns, one proposal suggests take the Declaration of Independence and literally erasing God from its Preamble.
"A lot of the history – particularly religious history or patriotic history and American exceptionalism – all of that will simply be removed if people around the country don't speak up," he said.
Cynthia Dunbar, an elected member of the board and assistant professor at Liberty University School of Law, said, "James Madison warned us that when error is allowed to become steeped in precedent it leads to tyranny. If an erroneous view of our American heritage is allowed to stand, that view will be even more entrenched when we revisit this issue again in 10 years. Since the board consists of only 15 members, the decision of eight individuals may determine what goes into textbooks on a national level; it is crucial that the voices of patriotic Americans be heard."
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