The Islam Project and the Retraction of “Alms for Jihad”

Blogger Foehammer has an interesting post about The Islam Project.  Excerpt from “American Institutional Jihad: ‘The Islam Project’”: 

Take a deep breath. Breathe out. Inhale. Breathe out.

Nice and relaxed? Good.

I want you to be ready for what you’re about to look at. First here’s a description from Pamela Hall of Stop the Madrassa (via a story over @ Michelle Malkin) that ties into a previous couple of reports here on the ‘Arabic’ school being built in New York City, “Khalil Gibran International Academy.” As you will see, the problem runs much deeper than just that academy. The ramifications are, well, nothing short of alarming:

This is a project run by people like the convert Susan Douglass of the Council on Islamic Education and the Islamic Society of North America. They are very well organized and have been orchestrating this comprehensive educational plan for many years with great success. Douglass has been very active and effective in Islamicizing the curriculum and textbooks used in the California public schools, the largest textbook market in the country and a bellwether for the U.S. This is how programs like the required three week course on Islam for all California 7th graders get implemented.

Check out the extensive list of Islamist organizations working on this project under “Community Engagement.” It all looks very innocent and legitimate on the surface. They started in CA in the California public schools, the largest textbook market in the country — next comes TX; then NY. This must be monitored and stopped.

Deep breath. Exhale.

Now here’s the website I’d like you to examine:…

Read the rest here.

 Also this week, blogger Always On Watch has posted three times on Cambridge University Press’s recall and “pulping” of Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. 

Read those three postings here, here, and here.  In the first of those postings, Always On Watch has compared the fate of Alms of Jihad to a twenty-first century book burning.  Indeed, the book is becoming scarcer and scarcer because of the publisher’s recall in the face of the threat of law suit.  Makes one wonder exactly what’s in that book, doesn’t it?  Furthermore, haven’t we gone past the days of book burnings?  Maybe not, if certain rich individuals feel threatened.

The above are but two examples of the Islamifying of curricula and educational materials.  And, to date, none of mainstream media are addressing the Islam project and what has happened to Alms for Jihad.  Why is that?

Video: “Islam: Cult or Religion?”

About 10 minutes in length: 

Have students take notes as they view the film–at home or in the classroom.  Then discuss each of the points in the film with your classes. 

1.  Do students view the points as valid?  Why or why not? 

2.  Do all religions contain elements of cultism?

3.  At what point does a cult or a religion present a general danger to a society or to the world?

4.  If the class concludes that cults are dangerous and that Islam is a cult, what do the students feel needs to be done to curb the influence?

Video: “Byzantine 2006 – Putting Quotes Back In Context”

This video is less than five minutes in length and worth your time:

Excerpt from some additional information by the creators of the above video:

…[T]he “Byzantine entity” lasted for only 62 more years, falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, thus ending the 1100-year-old controversy about its right to exist next to Muslim lands. Its capital Constantinople was renamed into Istanbul, its churches were converted to mosques, the country changed its name to Turkey, and its residents lost their language, cultural identity, and religion to Muslim Turks….

Begin Your Understanding

 Teachers can begin to understand the threat of Islamofascism by watching the award-winning film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West. The film is also suitable for high-school students.