Ok, I’m not going to go soft on this next topic, to put it bluntly, the not only disturbs, but it outrages me, and almost pushes my tolerance of things of this nature to the limit. As you can see in this article from time (will post url at the end), there was just a resolution passed by the Texas Board of Education that their social studies books (in particular, world history books), teach more about Islam and it’s practices then Christian studies. I find this down right disgusting, first thing, why does it matter? I’m sure that if the students were as conservative as the majority of the board, they would know more about Christianity then they would about Islam, and it should be more important that they learn about other cultures and their practices then ones that they are already familiar with. For two, I think it ridiculous that this type of thing isn’t getting more coverage on the news, I found it on the US section of Time at the very bottom with a one sentence link and no other information about it, and it would have been easy to miss if you were just checking for daily news stories like I usually do. I think that the word about this type of ignorance should be brought to the light, and hopefully put to an end (however it most likely will not) if you agree with me that this type of thing should be going on, type to me in the comments. This has once again been Toshi.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2021277,00.html
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