In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was Read. --Alia Muhammad BakerThe one and only New York Post is touting an exclusive story today with the following headline: New York approves war-oriented reading textbooks for third-grade classrooms which, as you see above, the local CBS affiliate picked up. The uproar is over the introduction of a book dealing with war into classrooms. Specifically targeted is Jeanette Winter's 2005 book The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq that has been approved through the city's new "common core" curriculum to be read in grades 3 and above.In their endearing, though never-ending, attempt to...
