Florida Rep. Ritch Workman Claims High School Textbook Has Pro-Islam Bias

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1. I have not read the textbook

but I have read the summary portions on the publisher website. In this particular case they may have a point. Christianity is barely mentioned while Islam commands several chapters. Islam is described as the "first global civilization (forgetting Rome). Given that Islam never established a foothold in all of the Americas, most of Asia, most of Europe, Australia, and most of the southern portion of the African continent, it is a ridiculous thing to say.

The European expansion into the Americas is described as an invasion (which it was). No such negative word is used for Islam (which was also an invasion). They use the phrase "spread of Islam" for three different chapters.

They don't even describe Genghis Khan or Timur as invaders. They reserve the word invasion for only the Americas.

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