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Virginia Education Department Instructs Teachers To Avoid Teaching About Muslim Extremism On 9/11

Chrissy Clark
Virginia Education Department Instructs Teachers To Avoid Teaching About Muslim Extremism On 9/11
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Virginia’s Department of Education hosted a speaker who instructed teachers to exclude the role Muslim extremism played when teaching students about 9/11.

In a PowerPoint delivered by “Education Leadership scholar” Amaarah DeCuir, teachers were instructed to avoid using language that could pin the events of 9/11 on Muslim extremism. The lecturer pointed to the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment that allegedly ticks up around the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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