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What Do American Schools Teach about Islam? PC or Nothing
Jenny McKeigue's youngest child enters seventh grade this fall, and
she plans to excuse him from a world history class requirement to recite
a Muslim conversion prayer called the shahada. McKeigue spent
four years attempting to convince her school board in Olmsted Falls,
Ohio, to alter some lessons and replace history textbooks after her
oldest son in 2012 showed her a reality TV episode his teacher had
played in class.In "30 Days: Muslims and America," an imam tells a Christian man attempting to live as a Muslim for 30 days that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. The Christian struggles with that idea but ultimately accepts it.
Independent reviewers McKeigue requested also found errors in the district's textbooks such as listing eleven biblical commandments and stating Muslims historically "practiced religious tolerance" by requiring Christians and Jews to pay extra taxes—not mentioning the alternative was often death. McKeigue said comparative class time and materials were not devoted to other major world religions such as Judaism and Christianity.
The district recently did buy new textbooks—a newer version of the one McKeigue had objected to, which contains many of the same errors.
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