Textbook: Dating is For Animals
It’s no secret that in our community dating is an issue. We don’t speak about dating with our children, except perhaps to bash it. But […]
Poisoning Our Children
Accusing Fellow Muslims of Shirk for Visiting Shrines
Making a pilgrimage to the shrines of holy men (and women!) is something I, like many Muslims, enjoy. It’s something we remember from our childhoods […]
Saudi Textbooks Poison Kids, Delight Islamophobes
The new year holiday is finally giving me time to get up a few more posts on textbook materials shared by readers. Apologies to everyone […]
More Textbook Trash: Making Kids Afraid of Christians
Thanks to all the readers who are sending in materials from their children’s textbooks. It’s important that we as parents know that our children are […]
Who’s Behind Weekend Learning Textbooks?
Weekend Learning’s Garbled Gospel Gymnastics The authors of Weekend Learning actually share much of Yahya Emerick’s core worldview. Their approach is to try to package […]
Forget Feminism: Don’t Let Women Work – Textbook
“The emergence of women from the homes into the workplace has resulted in the destruction of the very moral and social fiber of the society, […]
Another Bad Textbook: Weekend Learning Series
Abu Dhir has been writing about Yahyia Emerick and his publisher Noor Art. But I’ve been thinking more about the Weekend Learning textbooks, written by […]
Teaching Kids that Homosexuality is Indecency
“Homosexuality is indecency: Islam does not provide us any rights to allow sexual attraction between people of the same sexes. such attraction is clearly viewed […]
Hellfire Trauma: Textbook Fear-mongering
“A lazy person who misses his or her prayers is like a rebel again Allah, and deserves to undergo the consequences of his or her […]
A Call for Help: Parents, What is in Our Kids Textbooks?
Kids and family issues and the latest crisis back home in Egypt (folks are afraid) have kept me away from the blog for a few […]