is this semantics? well, let s talk about the issue today, thomas. the issue is about this resolution that does not ban the teaching about islam from textbooks. it simply says that all world religion s ought to be treated equally and you can t exalt one world religion. nobody that is reasonable would reject to this unless they re more interested in indoctrination than the education of our students. you say this resolution is inaccurately portraying what is happening in texas schools. how so? well, i don t think this resolution is about fairness. no one opposes fairness and if this resolution were fair, no one would oppose it. this resolution is not about fair. the author of this revolution has said that he is afraid muslims are trying to take over america without firing a shot by gaining control of the market to take over the minds of our young people. now, this is absurd, it reflects
religion. something that is much more charitable than i would say, personally. professor chance, do you think there could be an accurate portrayal through these books? i think most people would agree that it should portray the good, the bad and the ugly including religions that goes for christianity and islam and on that we agree. where we disagree, there is a fundamental imbalance in the textbooks today. this is a very odd resolution. i have been looking over the pertinent textbooks and this resolution really misrepresents what is actually in textbooks. it s based on textbooks that aren t even in use in texas schools any more. they have been replaced by different editions and misrepresents the editions that it does cite. i think that anyone who sat down and looked carefully at these textbooks and compared them to the resolution this misrepresents what is going on in texas schools. i do not think we re seeing
vilification of texases schools. i want to ask you as a man of god, do you think that we have such a heightened sensibility in the american culture that is using religion to vilify the islamic fate. you know, it reminds me the american who was talking to the russian and said in our country, we can criticize our president and the russians said, that s no different. in our country, we can also criticize your president. the truth is, it s fashionable to christianity but we do not point out any of the weaknesses of islam. that is not fair. if we re going to talk about the great crusades that were horrible and we should also talk about muslim acts of aggression, as well. that is education, inted stead of indoctrination and the fact that people are against this resolution, thomas, which simply calls for equal treatment shows how much this resolution is needed.