What are the facts about the Anti-Islam Resolution?
The resolution includes a variety of claims designed to demonstrate the alleged bias in high school world history textbooks published in 1999. Tellingly, those textbooks are not in Texas classrooms. Publishers updated those textbooks, which Texas adopted in 2002. A review of those newer textbooks, which carry a copyright of 2003, at the Texas Education Agency reveals that the Rives’ claims are superficial and grossly misleading. The Texas Freedom Network, a liberal watchdog on religion and education, produced a point-by-point rebuttal of the resolution. The TFN analysis indicates that the resolution takes a selective and incomplete survey of the textbooks in question. Click here to read the TFN rebuttal Interfaith leaders condemn anti- Islam resolution The resolution has elicited condemnation from interfaith leaders and community activists statewide, who emphasized that the ideas presented in the resolution as barriers to religious tolerance. The resolution is seen as a reflection of t
