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The Texas State Board of Education recently met to discuss standards for social studies. One person who testified is an operations manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
According to reporting on the SBOE meeting from The Texas Scorecard, Shaimaa Zayan works with CAIR’s Austin branch and took issue with material that connected terrorism to radical Islam.
Jeffrey Addicott with the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary’s University School of Law spoke about this, saying: “It’s an issue of labeling, because terrorism is a tactic. We don’t have an international definition for terrorism, so it’s a word that’s got a lot of elasticity to it.”
He went on to say that regardless of what CAIR activists have to say, the fact remains that radical Islamists use that tactic more than almost anyone else. “Those are objective facts that should not be denied and should be presented in educational settings appropriate to the age of the student,” he said.