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June 13, 2008
Islam in America's Public Schools: Education or Indoctrination?
With fatal terrorist attacks on the decline worldwide and al Qaeda apparently in disarray, it would seem a time for optimism in the global war on terrorism. But the war has simply shifted to a different arena. Islamists, or those who believe that Islam is a political and religious system that must dominate all others, are focusing less on the military and more on the ideological. It turns out that Western liberal democracies can be subverted without firing a shot.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft Jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Whether it is textbooks, curriculum, classroom exercises, film screenings, speakers or teacher training, public education in America is under assault.
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Cinnamon Stillwell is a columnist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle. She is also the Northern California Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. E-mail Cinnamon at cinnamon@cinnamonstillwell.com.
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