PBS INTRODUCES LESSON PLAN CLAIMING THAT MUSLIMS IN U.S. ARE "TARGETS OF NATIVISM" (RACIAL & ETHNIC BIGOTRY)
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/pbs-introduces-lesson-plan-claiming-that-muslims-in-u-s-are-targets-of-nativism; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
This claim has been circulating for a long time but now it is really getting the full Big-Lie treatment from mainstream media propagandists. Subsequent graphics show Ben Franklin warning of the dangers of German immigrants; the ‘Know-Nothings’ displaying ‘anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment’; an illustration of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Ku Klux Klan members in front of a burning cross and hating Italian immigrants; a woman in front of a Ford dealership deeply concerned about Jewish immigration to the United States; ‘repatriation’ of Mexicans during the Great Depression; a Japanese internment camp during World War II; and recent efforts in California and Arizona to curb illegal immigration.”
To dismiss concern about Muslims in the U.S. as mere “nativism” is to ignore the fact that these groups targeted by “nativists” were not committing terrorist acts or threatening the imminent conquest of the U.S. When this claim was articulated as “Muslims are the new Jews,” Bill Maher noted: “Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.” Indeed, and no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims now; there is no individual or group remotely comparable to the National Socialists in any genuine sense.
The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero: “‘Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.”
All those who have excoriated Trump for his statements regarding a moratorium on Muslim immigration have ignored the problem that Trump was trying to address. None of his critics have come up with any alternative plan to prevent jihad terrorists from entering the country. Instead, they dismiss concerns about jihad terror as “nativism,” trying to browbeat and intimidate us into submission and silent acceptance of their globalist agenda.
“PBS Introduces Lesson Plan To Indoctrinate Students Against Trump Immigration Proposals,” by Eric Owens, Daily Caller, September 14, 2016:
_______________________________________________________________Just in time for the 2016 election, San Francisco PBS affiliate KQED is offering a Common Core-ready lesson plan designed for public school teachers who want to indoctrinate students with a love for open borders and a deep suspicion of anyone who favors the immigration restrictions proposed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.The lesson plan — which comes complete with “safe space” suggestions — is offered by way of a section of the taxpayer-funded television station’s website called “The Lowdown” (“connecting newsroom to classroom”).The lesson, released this week, centers around a graphic comic entitled “Fear of Foreigners: A History of Nativism in America.”…The second graphic in the comic shows Trump “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”A bold, black-and-white box then informs students that “some Americans find his rhetoric alarming, but it follows a long tradition of anti-immigrant discourse.”The next comic graphic informs students that “we still sometimes have a tendency to blame newcomers for national problems, especially in response to tough economic times and threats to national security.”Subsequent graphics show Ben Franklin warning of the dangers of German immigrants; the “Know-Nothings” displaying “anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment”; an illustration of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Ku Klux Klan members in front of a burning cross and hating Italian immigrants; a woman in front of a Ford dealership deeply concerned about Jewish immigration to the United States; “repatriation” of Mexicans during the Great Depression; a Japanese internment camp during World War II; and recent efforts in California and Arizona to curb illegal immigration….A second bold, black-and-white box instructs students that “it’s not surprising that Mexican immigrants and Muslim communities are the targets of this recent bout of nativism” because “countless Americans still struggle economically and the nation remains on edge after recent ISIS-inspired attacks.”…
PICTURE FROM DAILY CALLER:
