Blog Honor Roll 09/23/07

K-12 Courses on the Middle East: Are They a ‘Stealth Curriculum’?

The need to educate primary and secondary students on Islam and the Middle East has far outpaced teachers’ own knowledge since September 11, 2001. Teachers find that they need new materials to educate themselves and their students. What one critic calls a “stealth curriculum” is filling the gap. Strongly pro-Muslim, anti-Israel groups have provided supplementary curricula on the Middle East for American classrooms. Muslim groups financed by the Saudi Arabian government have poured money into the creation and adoption of materials that reflect their point of view…

Islamic Republic displays long-range Ghadr-1 missile during parade that calls for ‘death to America and Israel’

Sure, let’s let I’m-a-nut-job lay a wreath at Ground Zero. (Not!)

AF Sec Calls China Sat Kill an “Egregious Act”

A top Pentagon official leveled sharp words at China Wednesday, reacting with some of the most candid and unambiguous language yet to that country’s destruction in January of a satellite in space with a ground-launched ballistic missile….(also see the comments)

Dubai Moves to Buy 20% of the NASDAQ

Bush doesn’t have a problem with it.