Virginia Ed Dept. tells teachers to avoid teaching about the Islamic extremism of 9/11

The Virginia Department of Education has become an oxymoron because it refuses to educate students on a particular topic that is relevant to understanding the motivation behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The department hosted a speaker who instructed teachers to avoid talking about the role Islamic extremism played in the suicide attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 individuals. 

The person who delivered the PowerPoint presentation by "Education Leadership scholar" Amaarah DeCuir, instructed to teachers to avoid using language that could [accurately] blame the events of 9/11 on Muslim extremists, people willing to die for Islam in order to forward this geopolitical religion. DeCuir pointed to the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment that allegedly increases around the anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks.

“School and classroom 9/11 commemorations are sites for increased anti-Muslim racism,” her presentation reads. “This year’s 20th anniversary commemorations will likely result in heightened risks of racist discourse, threats, and violence targeting Muslim students in schools and society. Educators are well-positioned to disrupt these risks by centering the socio-emotional needs of Muslims in their commemoration plans.”

DeCuir created a list of teaching standards that are “in” and “out,” according to her radical, anti-American viewpoints. 

Teaching standards that are “in” include “acknowledgment of anti-Muslim racism.” Teaching standards that are “out” include the “false assumption of Muslim responsibility for 9/11” and “American exceptionalism.” 

Of course, the truth is extremism and hatred for the West was and is the catalyst for terrorism, but DeCuir, with her twisted logic, would have us believe that the Muslims responsible for the attack were the victims of the event and the dead Americans were somehow responsible for their own fates. This is reminiscent of critical race theory which is both anti-American and racist.

The presentation gave examples of “harmful teaching” about 9/11. She gave examples that included “creating a tense classroom environment,” “reducing 9/11 instruction to death counts and fear mongering,” “assumptions of emotional distance,” “teaching about Islam and/or Muslims,” “amplifying the extremists and extremist acts of 9/11,” “demanding the condemnation of 9/11,” “failing to respond to anti-Muslim racism,” and “reproducing a single, American narrative that marginalizes other students.”

What happened twenty years ago this Saturday was tense and while the death counts in the three terrorist scenes was almost 3,000, it was only a fraction of what is known about that day. People trapped above the floors where the two planes hit had no chance of escape and many died jumping from the upper floors to escape the horrific heat--some held hands as they jumped together.

While it's said repeatedly, most Muslims are not terrorists, but all of the terrorists on 9/11 were Muslims, and all were performing Islamic jihad and were willing to die in order to practice this part of the religion of Islam. How can we not amplify the extremist acts of 9/11 when this ideology is still being practiced today, as it has been since Mohammad married a 6-year-old girl named Aisha?

And anti-Muslim "racism" isn't a thing because Islam isn't a race. But putting that aside, the larger problem isn't "islamophobia" [a term originally capitalized on by Muslim think tanks in order to shut the mouths of those people opposing the geopolitical side of Islam and its global jihad] the larger problem in the United States is anti-Semitism. In fact, it's on top of the hate crime list.

Even Democrats refuse to address the anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic rhetoric on Capitol Hill by such congresspeople as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Ayanna Pressley (D-OH). 

Below is the FBI's 2019 listing of religious hate crimes in the United States:

60.2 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.
13.2 percent were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias.
3.8 percent were victims of anti-Catholic bias.
3.8 percent were victims of anti-Other Christian bias.
3.5 percent were victims of anti-Sikh bias.
2.9 percent were victims of anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) bias.
2.6 percent were victims of bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).
1.4 percent were victims of anti-Protestant bias.
0.9 percent (15 individuals) were victims of anti-Mormon bias.
0.4 percent (7 individuals) were victims of anti-Jehovah’s Witness bias.
0.4 percent (7 individuals) were victims of anti-Hindu bias.
0.3 percent (6 individuals) were victims of anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.
0.3 percent (5 individuals) were victims of anti-Buddhist bias.
6.3 percent were victims of bias against other religions (anti-other religion).

So while DeCuir tries to depict Muslims as the largest victim group of hate crimes, the numbers don't lie.

According to her biography from American University, DeCuir is an education scholar who “focuses on the intersections of leadership, gender, and diverse cultural contexts to advance social justice.” In a tweet about the event, she called on “antiracist” educators to join and “disrupt” the current education of 9/11.

The term 'antiracist' means 'racist.' The term 'disrupt' the current education of 9/11, means to 'withhold information in order to foster a false narrative. This again is perfectly aligned with critical race theory and is a danger to the country as it is designed to undermine our basic principles and freedoms.

DeCuir had previously thanked the Michigan-based Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a Muslim interest group endorsed by Rashida Tlaib, an anti-Semite and a Hamas supporter. DeCuir once tweeted:

“My work would not be possible without the amazing research from [ISPU]! Thank you for your support,”

Tlaib also endorses the organization for its "profound" work.

Virginia State Senator Steve Newman (R) condemned the bullcrap presentation and called on educators state-wide to teach “the facts.” What a concept. 

“I lived through 9/11… This one event was due to Muslim extremists and their actions, the desire of these individuals to kill as many Americans as possible at one time. Why do we need to change history, again? Just tell the facts,” Newman said. “We have a responsibility to our children today to ensure they know the awful truth about the events of that day, and the evil intent behind the terrorists … We must teach the next generation the truth about our history.”

And lest we forget, it was Ilhan Omar who once dubbed the terrorism of 9/11 as “some people [that] did something.”

Hopefully your September 11, 2021 will be a day of reflection and a peaceful day overall. 

I still remember the burnt office papers that ended up on my Brooklyn roof on that sunny Tuesday twenty years ago. And I learned a lot about the so-called 'religion of peace' afterward.

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