Exposing the CIE
Summer 2003:
"The Council on Islamic
Education...presents itself as a mainstream Muslim organization,
linking itself to established educational associations, and it claims
to act as Islam's liaison to the nation's public schools. The
Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service roster of
recognized tax-exempt organizations (501c3) does not list the Council
on Islamic Education. No form 990 is on record. The Council on
Islamic Education is funded by domestic Islamic donors perhaps aided
by foreign support. The self-declared "resource center" is in fact
a political advocacy organization."
Council on Islamic Education
founder and director Shabbir Mansuri declared in a 2001 interview that
he took calls for improved American history and civic education after
9/11 to be a personal attack. He boasted that he is waging a
"bloodless" revolution, promoting world cultures and faiths in
America's classrooms.
The Council on Islamic Education has staged displays of Muslim prayer
for television cameras at California textbook hearings. It has
warned scholars and public officials who do not sympathize with its
requests that they will be perceived as racists, reactionaries, and
enemies of Islam."
"The Council on Islamic Education is part of the textbook terrain
today, a content gatekeeper with virtually unchecked power over
publishers. It advises activists in schools to generate grassroots
teacher support, to leave a paper trail, to affect cordiality, and to
insist on meeting with educational officials. The Council similarly
"works with" publishers to ensure they meet a certain standard of
sensitivity—the Council on Islamic Education standard."
"The Council on Islamic Education is an agent of contemporary
censorship. It
demands "ground rules upon which interaction with publishers can take
place." It warns that it may "decline requests for reviewing published
materials, unless a substantial and substantive revision is planned by
the publisher." For
more than a decade, history textbook editors have done the Council's
bidding, and as a result, history textbooks accommodate Islam on terms
that Islamists demand. This is all the more disturbing since the
Council has a curious view of the nation and world whose history it
wants to rewrite."
"According to one Prentice Hall editor who objected to policies on
Islam-related content, opposition is "silenced" and Islam is given a
"free pass." Publishers fear that the label of xenophobia, racism,
nativism, or ethnocentricity may affix to their products and
reputations. Almost without thinking, or thinking solely in venal
terms of political expediency, sales and adoptions, social studies
editors are giving American children and their teachers a misshapen
view of the past and a false view of the future."
Source:
MiddleEast Forum
Related Post: Textbook Reviews
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