Saudi in the Classroom -Stanley Kurtz
It turns out that federal subsidies to university programs of Middle East Studies has been serving as a kind of Trojan horse for Saudi influence over American [kindergarten through 12th grade] education.
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies' outreach program delivers seminars [for US teachers] that virtually promoted Islam as a religion, while sharply criticizing alleged American prejudice against the Muslim world - all at American taxpayer expense.
(National Review)
It turns out that federal subsidies to university programs of Middle East Studies has been serving as a kind of Trojan horse for Saudi influence over American [kindergarten through 12th grade] education.
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies' outreach program delivers seminars [for US teachers] that virtually promoted Islam as a religion, while sharply criticizing alleged American prejudice against the Muslim world - all at American taxpayer expense.
(National Review)
1 comment:
I never realized that paranoia was primarily an illness of conservatives. If you read the article, you will see that it is not primarily a complaint about content, but the possibility of content, and the fact that info about Fundamentalists and Terrorists was left out. It decries the Saudi influence without actually pointing out the objectionable material, except to say they left out stuff that, I presume, they would like to show that 'most Muslims are terrorists' or something to that effect. While trying to teach diversity and tolerance to young children, it is probably prudent, unless you want them to grow up like President W. Bush (I assume having a daddy that runs the CIA can cause issues), to leave out the polarizing and harder to understand concepts until they are a little older. Understanding fundamentalism and terrorism does not belong in initial cultural education about Muslims and I am quite sure Muslims could point out a few things from their perspective on other religions as well. There are a lot of Muslims, and even by Republican figures, only a small percent are active terrorists, although I know W. feels they all have the capability. Maybe he should see that poll you included in Mideast Soundbites that shows those numbers that support terrorism have been going down (except amongst Palestinians).
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