{"id":50,"date":"2010-08-25T03:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/08\/re-islam-and-christianity-nys-regents-doesnt-meet-the-test-of-fairness.html"},"modified":"2010-08-25T03:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:27:11","slug":"re-islam-and-christianity-nys-regents-doesnt-meet-the-test-of-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2010\/08\/re-islam-and-christianity-nys-regents-doesnt-meet-the-test-of-fairness.html","title":{"rendered":"Re: Islam and Christianity, NYS Regents doesn&#8217;t meet the test of fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;Wherever they went, the Christians brought with them their love of art,<br \/>\nbeauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their<br \/>\nculture was superior in many ways to that of Arabic Islam.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>That passage from a New York State Regents Exam reading selection is, of course, a shocking example of the state indoctrinating and pressuring school kids with subjectively skewed history to favor one religion over another. It is, plainly and simply, a misuse of state authority. <\/p>\n<p>At least it would be. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/terry-9.newsvine.com\/_news\/2010\/08\/24\/4963914-hs-test-slams-christianity-lauds-islam\">actual line<\/a> from a Daniel Roselle piece entitled &#8220;A World History: A Cultural Approach&#8221; actually reads like this:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Wherever they went, the Moslems [sic] brought with them their love of art,<br \/>\nbeauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their<br \/>\nculture was superior in many ways to that of western Christendom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>That really is just as wrong. The state really does have no business strongly suggesting to kids that one religion is &#8220;superior&#8221; to another. Doing so certainly doesn&#8217;t promote mutual respect and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Roselle has every right to write what he believes &#8212; but would his work have ended up on a state Regents exam if he wrote the opposite? &nbsp;<i> <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wherever they went, the Christians brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. 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