Islamic Issues - 伊斯蘭问题

San Francisco Chronicle reported that "Texas textbook board curtails mentions of Islam".

The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks.

The board approved the one-page nonbinding resolution, which urges textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books, by a 7-5 vote.

The board in recent years has become a battleground for social conservatives and liberal watchdogs, each accusing the other of imposing ideological agendas on what about 4.8 million public school students learn in Texas classrooms.

This treatment of one of the main religions and important cultures in the world is very disturbing.  It is not only short-sighted and stupid, it is also the very mechanism of fostering religious fanaticism.

I remembered that a while ago, I mentioned the ill-treatment of Islam in China.  So soon, it's time to report that behavior in the US.


舊金山紀事報报道了“得克薩斯州教科書董事會限制提到伊斯蘭”。

德克薩斯州教育委員會週五通過一項決議，旨在減少在德克薩斯州的教科書中引用伊斯蘭教。

董事會7-5表決批准了1頁的不具約束力的決議，敦促教科書出版商，以限制他們在世界歷史的書籍印有有關伊斯蘭教的文字。

該委員會在最近幾年已成為一個社會保守派和自由派監督者的戰場，他们互相指責对方強加其意識形態議程于德州公立學校的約 480萬學生。

這種对待世界上的一個主要宗教和重要文化的方式是非常令人不安的。它不僅是短視和愚蠢的，也恰是促進宗教狂熱的機制。

我記得前一陣子，我提到在中國伊斯蘭教的遭遇。這麼快，已是時候向大家報告，类似的在美國的行為。

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