CAIR curriculum urges more ‘nuanced’ approach to 9/11 by promoting Osama bin Laden

The CAIR curriculum urges teaching Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America.’

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

Frankly, why not? The political class of the city where most of the 9/11 deaths took place is on the verge of electing an Islamist who just met with a jihadist imam who refused to condemn Osama bin Laden.

Syria has been taken over by Al Qaeda/ISIS with our support, we’re in the middle of bailing out Hamas, and we just gave Article V protection to Qatar, which harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11.

It’s the perfect time for the new CAIR curriculum.

The CAIR NJ chapter describes it as helping “teachers adopt a more nuanced approach to 9/11 in their classrooms.”

Here’s the more “nuanced” approach.

“The US fought the Soviet Union, who had invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s, by supporting the rebels that stood up against the Russian invaders, including a man named Osama bin Laden and people who later formed the Taliban.”

“A man named Osama bin Laden” standing up to “Russian invaders.” Also the Taliban.

The CAIR curriculum then urges teaching Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America.’

The ‘Letter to America’ was not actually written by Bin Laden but by a leftist American hippie who converted to Islam and produced propaganda meant to manipulate Americans.

Urging people to read it is not a way of understanding Al Qaeda’s motives but to spread Al Qaeda propaganda to Americans.

It’s the difference between reading about Hitler’s plans and a transcript of a Lord Haw Haw broadcast.

The CAIR curriculum describes 9/11 as a “group self-identifying as Al Qaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan launched separate plane hijackings” in response to “America’s support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the vast presence of the US military in the Middle East.”

The terrorists were originally mostly from Saudi Arabia. They used vectors such as Germany.

The attacks were not about Israel and CAIR elides the stated justification, which is a religious objection to infidels being in the land of Mecca and Medina, not just the “vast presence of the US military in the Middle East.”

The rest is the expected ‘Muslims are the real victims of 9/11’ stuff.

“While Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism existed long before the 9/11 attacks, this time period marked a stark shift in US policy and state sponsored Islamophobia in the US and abroad.”

It then spends far more text on the supposed Islamophobia than on 9/11 where the deaths get about 1 sentence.

How many teachers are adopting this “nuanced” approach of circulating Al Qaeda propaganda and describing Osama bin Laden as a man standing up to “Russian invaders” as his defining identity?

Better keep an eye on your schools.