Last week, the Texas State Board of Education held its final public hearing on new social studies textbooks being adopted for use in the state’s schools over the next decade. Despite being deep in the heart of Texas, some right-wing activists testifying at the hearing appeared to believe we were actually trapped somewhere between Syria and Iraq. Our children are under threat of Islamic indoctrination in schools! Sharia! Jihad! Intifada! The tense negotiations among activists, Texas politicians, and textbook publishers will influence what children in Texas, and around the country, will be taught about issues from Islam to Moses to climate change.

Roy White, chairman of the right-wing group Truth in Texas Textbooks, testified that the draft textbooks contained selective disinformation that was “pro-Islamic and anti-Christian.” White was furious about a passage in a Cengage textbook that read: “Muslims spread their religion by conquest, through trade, and through missionary work.” White claimed that Muslims who followed Muhammad’s example would only “attack or kill” non-Muslims. He said that violence as the overwhelming method of conversion had continued on from Muhammad’s time to today, when terrorist groups “under the Islamic umbrella of some multisyllable name” are messengers for Islam.

State Board of Education member Tincy Miller called White “a great patriot,” but the books’ treatment of Islam remained the same.

Turns out it’s actually pretty common for people to mistake Texas as the next target for incorporation into ISIS’s caliphate. Texas’ standardized curriculum was discarded last year in part because of accusations that it was pro-Islam and because in one school, during one lesson on Islam, a few students wore burqas. The incoming Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, ran a television ad about how ISIS was infiltrating Texas’ borders.

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