Texas State Board of Education Condemns Supposed Pro-Islamic Distortions In Textbooks

At its Sept. 24 meeting, the Texas State Board of Education approved, by a vote of 7-6, a resolution (full text) condemning supposed "pro-Islamic/ anti-Christian distortions in Social Studies texts." The resolution cites textbooks that devote more lines to Muslim than Christian beliefs and practices and claims "patterns of perjoratives toward Christians and superlatives toward Muslims", "politically correct whitewashes", and "sanitized definitions of 'jihad'". A release from the Texas Freedom Network says that 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted against the resolution, but the "board's far right members ... voted as a bloc to pass it." (See prior related posting.) Friday's Houston Chronicle reported on the Board's action.