NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROMOTED TEACHING SYMPATHIES WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD SUICIDE BOMBERS
“DYING TO BE A MARTYR” BRAINWASHING STUDENTS WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD SYMPATHIES
NY State Education Department promoted lesson plan teaching students to sympathize with Islamic jihad suicide bombers
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/ny-state-education-department-promoted-lesson-plan-teaching-students-to-sympathize-with-islamic-jihad-suicide-bombers;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
No one particularly cared about this. But imagine what the outcry would
have been if the New York State Education Department had promoted a
lesson plan teaching students to oppose jihad terror and discussing its
ideological roots in Islamic texts and teachings.
“N.Y. promoted, covered up lesson plan teaching students to sympathize with Islamic suicide bombers,” by Justin Haskins, The Blaze, May 7, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
On April 12, The Blaze reported the Public Broadcasting Service has been for more than decade featuring a lesson plan
that instructs students to be more sympathetic to the plight of Islamic
terrorists in Palestine. The plan, titled “Dying to be a Martyr,”
features, among other things, video interviews with Islamic terrorists
who tell viewers why their attacks on Israelis are justified. There are
no instructions in the lesson plan for teachers to denounce these views
and no videos are featured showing the Israeli response.Among the other biased aspects of the lesson plan are instructions
for teachers to “Check for understanding by asking students to respond
to the focus question. (Mohanned, feels he would rather die and by a
martyr than live his life, sees his life as hollow—in contrast he sees
Israelis as happy, going out, having fun, traveling.) Ask your students
why Mohanned may feel that way (Answers may include: Palestinians have
less land, fewer privileges, cannot come and go as they please.)”A new investigation into the lesson plan and its origins show the
plan was developed in New York state and was, until just a couple of
weeks ago, promoted by the New York State Education Department.
Following a request for comment from state officials, NYSED abruptly
altered its website without a comment, essentially covering up the fact
the website ever contained the “Dying to be a Martyr” material.On a taxpayer-funded NYSED website for public school history and
geography teachers, NYSED lists numerous videos and books in a section
titled “Resources for Teachers.”
Among those items listed is a video titled “Story of Islam: A History
of the World’s Most Misunderstood Faith.” The “Dying to be a Martyr”
lesson plan was also listed, and it appears it was the only full lesson
plan listed in that section, which contains 40 items.The lesson plan is also featured by Thirteen.org,
a website belonging to the WNET-TV network, the PBS affiliate for New
York City and the areas immediately surrounding the city. It appears the
New York PBS affiliate is the producer of the lesson plan. The author
of the plan is a long-time public school teacher in upstate New York.An investigation by The Blaze reveals the teacher who authored “Dying to be a Martyr” is still teaching at Ballston Spa High School,
a public school in Ballston Spa, New York, located in Saratoga County.
At Ballston Spa, the teacher leads courses covering world history for
9th and 10th graders. A review of classroom notes posted to the
teacher’s website shows she covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in
great deal in her course. Among the many questions students are asked to
answer are “What is Hammas’ [sic] view ?” and “How were Palestinian
refugees treated?”…
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SEE ALSO: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/07/n-y-promoted-covered-up-lesson-plan-teaching-students-to-sympathize-with-islamic-suicide-bombers/
SEE ALSO:
https://counterjihadreport.com/2017/04/13/pbs-lesson-plan-encourages-students-teachers-to-sympathize-with-islamic-suicide-bombers/
EXCERPTS:
At the end of March, the Christian Action Network sent a “Letter of Demand”
to officials at the U.S. Department of Education, mandating the PBS
LearningMedia website cease its “so-called educational material”
covering topics related to Islam, which CAN said are “nothing more than
indoctrinating students into Islamic religious beliefs, duties and
actions.”
A review of the LearningMedia website by The Blaze
found at least six lengthy lesson plans focused on teaching students
about various aspects of Islam, including “The Five Pillars of Islam,”
“The Haj: Journey to Mecca” and “Salat: Prayer in Muslim Life.” However,
no similar lesson plans covering other religious groups—including
Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism or Hinduism—were discovered on
the website.
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