{"id":3377,"date":"2010-03-17T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:01:04","slug":"cair-asks-schoolslibraries-to-remove-books-about-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"CAIR asks schools\/libraries to remove books about Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 17, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that CAIR &#8220;launched a campaign&#8230; against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.&#8221;\u00a0 The ten-book series &#8220;The World of Islam&#8221; was published in late 2009 by Mason Crest Publishers of Broomall,  Pennsylvania with research by the Foreign Policy  Research Institute (FPRI).<\/p>\n<p>Moein Khawaja, civil rights director for CAIR-Pennsylvania, said at a news conference that the books are &#8220;rife with incorrect information and fear-mongering&#8221; and called the FPRI a &#8220;pro-war think tank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CAIR called on schools and libraries to exchange &#8220;The World of Islam&#8221; for &#8220;Introducing Islam&#8221; which Khawaja said was &#8220;written in cooperation with scholars of Islam and is more accurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62G41Y20100317\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62G41Y20100317<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip:<\/strong> <a href=\"..\/?cat=221\">Healer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: March 17, 2010 Description: Reuters reported that CAIR &#8220;launched a campaign&#8230; against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.&#8221;\u00a0 The ten-book series &#8220;The World of Islam&#8221; was published in late 2009 by Mason Crest Publishers of Broomall, Pennsylvania with research by the Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,221,138,122,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-healer","category-academia","category-islamophobia","category-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}