- A Los Angeles public schools textbook
on the Muslim religion was yanked this week after it was discovered that
the book's forward describes Jews as "illiterates who reject knowledge."
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- "Nearly 300 copies of the book,
'The Meaning of the Holy Quran,' donated by the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation,
were removed on Tuesday for further review," the Associated Press
reported Thursday.
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- Despite the anti-Semitic slur, Los Angeles
school district official Jim Konantz suggested the book's removal may not
be permanent. "We're going to talk to the foundation members and
determine exactly why the commentary's there and whether there is research
to support it," he told the AP.
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- News of the offensive Muslim public school
book follows complaints last month that a school district in Contra Costa,
Calif., was indoctrinating students in Muslim extremism.
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- A lesson plan for Byron's Excelsior Middle
School suggested that students adopt Muslim names, wear Muslim clothes
and play their own "jihad" dice games. (See: http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/1/10/171525
California Pupils Indoctrinated in Islam)
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