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

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9. The AP World History text

should be an academic exercise like you said detailing world history without an agenda. Based on what I can find on the publisher's website, this does not appear to be the case. Islam and other religions (along with states and cultures) should all be held to with a critical eye.

Let me give you another example. My daughter's English class required her to study the formation of the Bible and other religious texts. Virtually all especially modern criticisms in her university library critically decide that many of the books of the Bible were attributed to the wrong individuals (and actually many of the individuals did not exist). I happen to mostly agree with that assessment, but many literature sources argue that the authors are as stated (for example the Gospels). I actually had to purchase books for her critical analysis to be complete.

When you consider Islam the situation is reversed. Very few books use critical techniques to examine the Qur'an. I know very few books of this nature exist (I have looked for them) and the library did not have any of them except Ibn Warraq which is limited because of his unwillingness to abandon his pseudonym and open up his credentials to examination. He also has a key essay in one of the books he edited which also uses a psueudonym. That is it for the library. Several books including Mattson's virtual love letter to Islam are what is available.