From WESH-TV (Florida)
VIERA, Fla. —A group of parents and a state legislator say they are offended by a history book used in Brevard County schools.
The group says the book is too favorable to the Muslim faith and unfair to Christianity and Judaism.
The book, “World History,” is published by Prentice Hall.
“It’s remarkably offensive to me,” said Rep. Ritch Workman. “This book very much sugar-coats the rise of Islam to be this wonderful new world order while teaching Christianity as dogmatic.”
The book is used in Brevard County high schools and other schools in Florida. At school district headquarters, Workman told the school board the book favors Islam at the expense of other religions.
It has a 36-page section on the religion and devotes three paragraphs to Christianity, he said.
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