Someone tell the student that 99% of the worlds atrocities
involve Muslims; women are less than animals in Muslim
countries and have no rights. They are lucky IF they
get "beaten" instead of murdered. Those poor women.
Looks like I was wrong about the number of muslims in the USA,
CAIR website posted there were 8,000,000 million Muslims in
the USA, and 30% are jihadists according to Muslims themselves;
you do the math, how many jihadist are there in the USofA?
http://www.wa****ngton-re****t.org/archives/May_2000/0005086.html
Zeinab Alkebsi, a seventh grade student in the Earle B. Wood Middle
School in Maryland=92s Montgomery County, was shocked at the book she
had selected from a list for optional reading for advanced-placement
students. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney, one of America=92s most
prolific writers of fiction for children and young adults, and
published by Scholastic Inc., provides an extremely misleading
****trait of Islam, concluded Zeinab, reinforcing negative
stereotyping.
In the book the 11-year-old younger brother of the heroine, an
American girl living in England, is killed by a package bomb in the
London subway. The =93terrorist=94 turns out to be a Muslim girl seeking
to avoid an arranged marriage to a man in his 50s who has two other
wives.
Zeinab complained about the book to her father, Abdulwahab Alkebsi,
international affairs director for the Islamic Institute, a
Wa****ngton, DC political think tank. Mr. Alkebsi in turn complained
to
the principal of the school, in a national capital suburb, but was
not
satisfied with the response he received. He then enlisted the help of
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is urging the
publisher to withdraw the book.
=93It contained paragraph after paragraph that was just so offensive,=94
Alkebsi said. =93Muslims are wife abusers. Muslims are polygamists.
Just
one stereotype after another throughout the book.
Commenting on the case, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said, =93The big
problem here is that this book was assigned reading in a classroom.
When you have a captive audience of impressionable young people,
whose
minds are like sponges at this age, it=92s not really fair to present
them with this kind of reading material and require them to read it.=94
Ironically, Montgomery County has a sensitivity program for which a
Muslim community activist has been given a part-time paid position to
avoid such mishaps. The county has prom ised to review the book, as
has Scholastic Inc.
Zeinab Alkebsi=92s complaint was picked up by the Associated Press and
reprinted in other parts of the country. A story on the incident in
the Dallas Morning News prompted a review of schoolbooks in Arlington
County, Texas, where the book was found in four school libraries.
=93I=92m afraid this kind of book only serves to promote hatred,=94 said
Syed Ahsani, a former Pakistani ambassador who now is an instructor
at
the University of Texas at Arlington and president of the Texas
chapter of the American Muslim Alliance. =93This book is going to
produce hatred of Muslims, and the title is very provocative and
misleading and slanderous.=94
As for Zeinab Alkebsi, she=92s still a voracious reader, and proud of
her first foray into political activism. It=92s a tradition in her
Yemeni-American family, which includes famous Yemeni officials and
writers on the family tree. The tradition has continued with some
family members equally active in Yemeni =E9migr=E9 affairs since their
arrival in the United States as political exiles.
=97Richard. H. Curtiss
Muslim Groups Monitor Trial of Imam Jamil Al-Amin
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