WHAT!? Texans being told the Alamo actually is … ISLAMIC!
This article originally appeared on WND.com.
Guest post by Bob Unruh
‘Such claims are intended to introduce sensationalized or false history’.
Hey, y’all down there in Texas! Did you know that the Alamo really was Islamic?
That stunner was included in a letter to state education officials warning them against the “false history” that some interests are trying to inject into the state’s history.
“It has come to our attention that an extensive lobbying effort is underway to have the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) alter curriculum standards in a way that would diminish American and Texas history,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and other Texas Republicans wrote to education officials.
“The petitioners’ efforts claim that Islam influenced our founding, culture, and way of life. For instance, the (board) recently responded to public testimony asserting that the Alamo is an Islamic building.
“Such claims are intended to introduce sensationalized or false history into our curriculum, and it is not the (board’s) responsibility to accommodate flagrant lies or cultivate spurious claims of their belonging,” the letter said.
Members of the Islamic community long have demanded positive portrayals of their religion, which advocates for the beheading of those who are not what the Founding Fathers would have known as “Mahometans,” to the point some have claimed that Muslims were active and integral in the founding of America. There is no evidence for that, although the Founding Fathers did provide protections for religion in their work.
The Alamo originally was a Spanish mission started by Catholic missionaries and was one of the early establishments in Texas to be used to convert American tribes to Christianity.
It was secularized in the late 1700s and abandoned, but later turned into a fortress for what then was the Republic of Texas, and became the site of the Battle of the Alamo in which Mexican forces obtained a short-lived victory in their failed war to reclaim Texas.
