Opinion: Texas Textbooks Biased Against Christianity
The Texas State Board of Education will vote Friday on a resolution aimed at restraining publishers from printing social studies textbooks with a clear bias for Islam and against Christianity.
The action comes after some Texas conservatives claimed that several textbooks lessons on the Crusades conveyed the message that Christians are “violent attackers” and Muslims are “empire builders.”
“Diverse reviewers have repeatedly documented gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social studies texts,” reads a preliminary draft of the resolution, which would not be binding on future boards that will choose the state’s next generation of textbooks.
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