Thread: Texas Board of Education at it again Banning textbooks
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Old 10-02-2010, 09:00 AM   #399
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6893460.shtml

(CBS/AP) Texas' State Board of Education - following a long history of throwing itself into "culture war" issues - is set to vote Friday on a resolution calling on textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books.

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 beliefs and practices.

"Diverse reviewers have repeatedly documented gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social studies texts," reads a draft of the resolution, which would not be binding on future boards that will choose the state's next generation of social studies texts. .....

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more lines for islam than christianity? that is quite odd. and i'm assuming those lines are of a neutral tone. i agree with this decision.
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