Citizens for National Security Announces New Teachers Guide to Muslim Propaganda in K-12 Textbooks
We asked Dr. Saxton for some examples of misleading or untruthful quotes: Dr. Saxton said: “When you see the corrected information juxtaposed against the false quote it really demonstrates just how egregious some of these statements can be. Here is a good example of what I am speaking about from Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction:
Page 587
“a widespread campaign of civil disobedience called the Intifada, or ‘uprising.’ The Intifada took the form of boycotts, demonstrations, attacks on Israeli soldiers, and rock throwing by unarmed teenagers…. However, the civil disobedience affected world opinion, which, in turn, put pressure on Israel to seek negotiations with the Palestinians.”
The discussion of the 1987 Intifada on page 587 speaks of civil disobedience but fails to mention the extreme violence of the Palestinians who murdered 1100 of their own people and 164 Israelis8. The PLO, responsible for much of the Intifada violence, accused 1100 Palestinians of Israeli collaboration, although accusations were unproven.
It was far more than “unarmed teenagers” who conducted the Intifada. They were singled out to invoke sympathies from teenagers worldwide.
“2000 Visit by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to holy Arab site launches second Intifada and years of violence.”
The phrase completely leaves out a key fact: The holy site visited by Ariel Sharon was the Temple Mount, the holiest of holy sites to the Jewish people, the Temple of Solomon. The Muslims built the Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, on the ruins on the Temple Mount built 1650 years after the Temple of Solomon. The reason that the Dome of the Rock was built on the Jewish holy site in 691 AD was to assert domination over the Jewish people. Sharon was merely asserting the right of the Jewish people to visit the Temple Mount, a right that had been previously denied them by the Jordanians. The Second Intifada cost the lives of nearly 5000 Palestinians and 1400 Israelis including 160 children.9
Summary
• The first and second Intifadas were started by the Palestinians against Israelis and resulted in the deaths of 6600 Palestinians and1400 Israelis.
• The second intifada was pre-planned by PLO leader Yasser Arafat upon the pretext that Ariel Sharon violated a Muslim holy site when he merely visited the holiest of holy sites in all of Judaism.
• Teenagers were far from the only constituents of the Intifadas
World History contains serious misleading remarks about Sharia law:
Page 308
“Similar to Jewish law, the Sharia [law] regulates moral conduct, family life, business practices, government, and other aspects of individual and community life.”
This statement seeks to incorrectly portray a similarity between Jewish and Islamic (Shariah) law. Mosaic law is summarized in the Ten Commandments, but is fully discussed in the Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Bible. There are fundamental differences between Mosaic law and Shariah law. Mosaic law is to be observed by practicing Jews, and not required or expected of non-Jews. Furthermore, there is no country including Israel where Mosaic law is also the law of the land.
Shariah law is required of all those under Islamic rule and is the law of the land in many Islamic countries. For example, Iran, Turkey and Syria are under Shariah law; and now, Egypt and Libya are embracing it. Currently Muslims in Great Britain, France, and even the United States are asserting rights under Shariah law. In Great Britain, non-Muslim 113 female police are required to wear “hijabs” or head dress in Islamic sections of Bristol. There have been a number of “honor” murders in America where Islamic fathers slay their daughters who have “dishonored” the family114. An Islamic father in Garret, Texas shot dead both of his daughters for “dishonor.” These actions place Muslims at odds with the laws of the country in which they live. On the other hand, Christians and Jews are expected to live under the laws of the country in which they live.
Summary
• Jewish law is for observant Jews to follow, but Jews are required to live under the secular laws of their country. Israel is nominally a Jewish state but the Government of Israel does not require Jews to live under Mosaic law.
• Shariah law is government imposed on Muslim and non-Muslim alike in a number of Middle Eastern countries.
• Muslims citizens of non-Muslim countries often insist on living under Shariah in conflict with the laws of those countries. Honor killings committed in America are examples of Shariah law in conflict with American laws forbidding murder.
• Shariah law is in conflict with U.S. Constitutional law.
Dr. Saxton says: “I would encourage readers of The Report Card to take these three steps: 1. Download the Teachers Guide 2. Study It and share it 3. Check the textbook list against what textbooks are being used in your schools. If they are in use, take a 4th step and write your school board. Tell them that their books flunk, but you can help them pass.”