Schools in 4 States Push ‘Islamophobia’ Lessons
September 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, TerrorismTwenty-five years after Islamic terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, only two states in the entire nation require schools to teach students about the deadliest attack on American soil.
Source: Schools in 4 States Push ‘Islamophobia’ Lessons
September 7, 2026
Twenty-five years after Islamic terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, only two states in the entire nation require schools to teach students about the deadliest attack on American soil.
Florida and Arizona stand alone in mandating that students learn the history of that terrible day. Meanwhile, four states have gone in a different direction entirely, recommending curriculum that spends more time warning students about “Islamophobia” than explaining why 19 hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the first place.
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Oregon have all recommended a revisionist curriculum called “Teaching Beyond September 11th,” developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. The lesson plans read like a progressive checklist: “Islamophobia and the Oval Office,” “Right-wing Extremism,” “Surveillance of Muslims,” “Civil Liberties after 9/11,” and “The Muslim and African Ban.”
The curriculum’s treatment of the actual attacks is strikingly brief. “On the 11th of September 2001, 19 hijackers flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one airplane into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania,” one passage reads. “A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers.”
The curriculum’s handling of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is particularly telling. Rather than stating the established facts, it hedges: “The U.S. accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks.”
One lesson highlighted by The New York Post asks students to consider a Danish cartoon depicting Muhammad that sparked riots killing more than 250 people. Students are prompted to consider how the media response “presented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist.”
The focus, in other words, isn’t on the violence. It’s on whether the cartoons were offensive.
New York state Assemblyman Matt Slater, a Republican from Yorktown, didn’t mince words about this approach to education.
“Nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered by al Qaeda on September 11th. They were the victims. The terrorists were the perpetrators,” Slater said. “Any curriculum that blurs that fundamental truth, or makes the victims secondary to a political narrative, isn’t teaching history, it’s rewriting it.”
Ten other states have laws that “encourage” lessons about 9/11 but provide no specific direction about what those lessons should include. According to The New York Post, that could mean something as minimal as a moment of silence or a brief assembly.
The heroes of Flight 93, the passengers who fought back against their hijackers and brought the plane down in a Pennsylvania field rather than let it reach its target in Washington, deserve more than a moment of silence. The firefighters who ran into the burning towers deserve more than a brief assembly. The families who lost mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters that day deserve more than having their loved ones’ murders turned into a lecture about American bigotry.
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