[Mavdog]

The author of this report is clearly anti-islamic...actually he's anti anything not western european.

"Concern about the ability and willingness of many domestic Muslims to assimilate that is, to put American constitutional values in front of their religion is not unfounded; Islam may favor resistance and separatism"

"Islamic organizations indignantly insist that Islam is a religion of peace"

His issues? The textbooks don't emphasize the violent concept of jihad enough, but a more personal relationship to dedication. They don't identify shar'ia as in his words "Sharia can be a system of religion-based behavioral control in which certain crimes are punishable by stoning, flogging, amputation, and beheading, punishments intended to inspire subjection and fear" but define it in less subjective connotation. Hmm, western societies didn't do anything like that did they? Yes, i believe they did.

The problem with how muslims treated slaves is a problem to Gilbert Sewell because "they omit any references to the downside of Muslim enslavement". I expect the student knows a "downside" exists from being a slave, wouldn't you? This position is taken in spite of Sewell acknowledging himself that ""These statements [in tne textbooks] are not exactly inaccurate" and that " Scholars agree that those millions who were enslaved by Muslims were accorded many more legal protections under Islamic law than they were in the Americas". If that's the case then teach it, but to Sewell the facts are an obstacle to his mission against islam.

Last, he doesn't see the textbooks going far enough in its portrying islam's mistreatment of women, preferring to focus on whatever negative he can put forth.

Why does he write the piece? It's clear in this statement from the report:
"As a result of revisionist demands made during the 1990s, students today are likely to obtain a rose-colored version of African, Middle Eastern, and Asian history. Textbook editors routinely adjust perspective and outlook to advance the illusion of cultural equivalency and demonstrate crosscultural and global sensitivity."
Yes, Sewell can't stand to see any "equivilency", European culture is supreme and without equal, all others should be reduced to a sidenote. How ethnocentric of him. That attitude shares much with those he purports to be against.