ory777 Donating Member (863 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-24-10 06:16 PM
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Texas ed board adopts resolution limiting Islam in textbooks
Source: Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution today 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.
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-24-10 06:43 PM
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7. The Texas State Board of Education is an Oxymoron
heavy on the morons. Everyday the movie Idiocracy seems more and more like a documentary.
RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-24-10 09:53 PM
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25. I hope so much they get tossed out on their big fat bigoted asses. Somehow bigots
seem to do well in the US.
rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-24-10 07:24 PM
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9. may the intelligence of the Texas School Board isn't extoled in the Koran
can't imagine why it wouldn't be.
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-24-10 09:47 PM
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21. Why does this shit happen more often in Texas than elsewhere?
Just a question
Their remarks if the headline had read, "Texas ed board adopts resolution limiting Christianity in textbooks...
"Well, H@!! yes...they finally figured out the separation clause...took them long enough."
"About time the bigots woke up and got it right for once"
"may there is some intelligence somewhere in Texas"
"Why doesn't the rest of the county follow Texas' lead??"
Now, which side is it that's supposed to be prejudiced, bigoted, hateful??
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4552327
