Marine banned from daughter’s school over Islam homework

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Wow, that's a very generous interpretation of events. But there is in fact bias in the questions e.g. why no questions about Muhammad's gruesome deeds? Because it's Disneyland.

There were questions about his upbringing, the changes in his life, the Hijrah and the treatment of conquered people. Any neutral party can answer these questions by pointing out the good and the bad. The questions provide ample opportunity to list his gruesome deeds. Asking specific questions about atrocities would be as biased as asking specific questions about "How Mohammad benefited the world".

And a few of the answers (Mohammed's forgiveness of the Meccans, jihad means struggle, and the treatment of minorities) are only partially true and whitewash the whole gruesome truth.

Then the whitewash is being done by the one answering the questions.

This shows they have in fact been brainwashed by the teachers.

No, it doesn't - not unless you give evidence that those are the only things the teachers taught.

The questions generally lean towards (a) Mohammed was a kind and forgiving man and (b) Islam means peace and tolerance. It's obvious.

No, they don't. The questions themselves have no such leanings.

And common sense tells you that virtually no school in the Western world would countenance frank views about Islam. They would run a millions miles from that topic.

Do you mean to say that Western schools misrepresent historical facts pertaining to Islam?

He was allegedly acting in a "threatening" manner. But who cares, the point is about Islam, not the parent.

No, the point is whether the school is promoting a religion by misrepresenting facts and if so, what remedy can the parents pursue.

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The test does not address the ugliness in Islam or its history, so it is clearly a biased, dumbed-down version of history.

The test itself addresses neither the ugliness nor its beauty. That is the purpose of what is actually being taught in the class. Do we know anything about that?

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To the extent the assignment whitewashes the ferocity of the Muslim conquests and the violence in the Koran, I have some sympathy for the outraged father.

The problem is, I'm not certain it does. The answers depict a clear white-washing - on that I agree - and if that is all that is being taught in the school, then there is a very good reason for criticism. But then, this is Fox News we are listening to here.

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Here's a similar story, from a Massachusetts school. The bias is so thick that Mohammed sounds like an angel.

Yup - this one had real bias. BTW, which textbook is it from? And how did it get approved and assigned to the curriculum?