Texas education board: Textbooks favor Islam over Christianity
The Texas Board of Education adopted a controversial resolution today that accuses textbook publishers of favoring Islam over Christianity and tells them to stop it. Never mind that the books the board has cited as examples of bias were phased out of the Texas public school system a long time ago, according to the Texas Education Agency. The board isn’t letting facts get in the way, because this whole exercise really isn’t about balance in textbooks, something that not even a halfwit would argue against. The one-page resolution, approved 7-6, was put on the board's agenda not long after the panel finalized new social studies standards and right at the time when a charged national debate erupted over a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York, and about a Florida pastor who was threatening to burn the Koran.
