Analyst's note: I just received this notification from ACT for America this morning.
Dear Robert,
When CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, sent a letter to all 295 school districts in Washington state, the Pierce County chapter of ACT! for America swung into action.
What concerned Pierce County ACT is the request from CAIR that the schools invite members from the CAIR speakers bureau to come to the schools. Pierce County ACT is also concerned, as we are, about the misrepresentations of Islam that are common in public school textbooks.
In response, Pierce County ACT scheduled a Town Hall meeting in Puyallup, which was attended by dozens of people. Books used in three area school districts were shown to the attendees. For instance, one textbook devotes six pages to Christianity, four pages to Judaism, six pages to Hinduism and Buddhism—and 31 pages to Islam.
Does that seem balanced to you?
The facts about CAIR were also presented. CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in America’s history. The Justice Department has affirmed CAIR is connected to the terrorist organization Hamas, which led to the FBI severing official outreach efforts to CAIR. CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood front group. Numerous leaders of CAIR have been arrested, deported or convicted on various charges over the past several years.
We agree with Kerry Hooks, Pierce County ACT chapter leader, that an organization with this track record should not be invited into our public schools.
This is the kind of grassroots citizen action that frightens the Muslim Brotherhood, its front groups, and its enablers. When we present the facts, they don’t dispute them. All they have in response is their tired, worn-out, and false allegations about “Islamophobia”—a term invented by a Muslim Brotherhood front group to intimidate people into silence.
Later this fall our sister organization, ACT! for America Education, will mail the Executive Summary of a textbook analysis report to America’s 70,000 school board members. The full report will be available on the web.
We have spent over a year analyzing how 38 commonly used public school textbooks treat the history and doctrines of Islam. What we have found will shock you. Stay tuned.
