Provocation Alert: Revisionist History Favoring Islam In Public Schools :: Ironic Surrealism II

What have we been saying from day one?!

OPINION: January 20, 2008 — Springer Sara

The following is quoted from an article appearing in The Washington Times, January 18, 2008 by Diana West.

“And not just blasphemy laws. Jihad doctrine; Shariah (Islamic law); designs for a global caliphate through jihad (terrorism) and the spread of Shariah (Islamization): We pretend they are not factors in the free world’s experience with Islam”.

This statement hit home as just this evening my daughter was describing her global history class. She commented on the fact that Islam was studied for several weeks. A handout she received states, “We are so accustomed to regard our culture as essentially that of the West that it is difficult for us to realize that there was an age when the most civilized region of Western Europe was Islamic Spain. Western culture grew up under the shadow of the more advanced civilization of Islam, and it was from the Muslims that medieval Christendom recovered its share in the inheritance of Greek science and philosophy”. Do you understand the idea behind this statement? Our western culture has been in a few words destroyed and usurped by the civilized Islamic Spain.

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