Amaarah DeCuir is a lecturer who recently did a presentation for the Virginia Department of Education in which teachers are encouraged to erase Muslim involvement in 9/11.
“It’s going to be important as we begin to plan our 9/11 lessons in a way that does not seek to reproduce anti-Muslim racism,” she said. “We’re not going to reproduce a false assumption of Muslim responsibility for 9/11. We’re just going to begin right there and name that there is no responsibility and therefore we’re not going to use this space to try and untang/le this.”
What’s next, ignoring how the Taliban would treat Amaarah DeCuir if she were abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration?
Yes, I think so, and we know this because, according to American University, “DeCuir is an education scholar who “focuses on the intersections of leadership, gender, and diverse cultural contexts to advance social justice.”
I’m surprised she’s not a regular at the White House. An SJW hijab-wearing woman of color with a doctorate in left-wing BS. She could chat with ‘Dr.’ Jill Biden about how Islam had nothing to do with 9/11.
Except that it did, and Muslims were proud of it. Palestinian Muslims were dancing in the streets when they learned of it. The perpetrators were Muslims, trained by Mulsim, to execute a plan created by Muslims in the interests of advancing Extremist Islam.
Not all Muslims approved; that is true. And most may have disapproved. I have no idea who, how many, or how much.
And yes, there is a rise in sentiment around 9/11 that leads to discrimination against Muslims but is it a fraction of the “Muslim” sentiment that inspired the attacks and continues to fuel jihad.
A jihad (or maybe the correct word is discrimination) the ‘Muslim Community has been unable to quell since the time of Muhammad.
Perhaps Ms. DeCuir should take her show to Kabul where, instead of encouraging teachers in the United States to avoid topics of American Exceptionalism, she can instruct the Taliban to avoid teaching about the exceptionalism of Muhammad or Islam. Or, she could share some thoughts with educators in the West about how well that would work out for her instead of pretending that the Taliban are not the very same sorts of Muslims who had a hand in 9/11 twenty years ago.
That would be talking truth to power, but that sort of thing is rare.
Most of the coverage of DeCuir’s presentation to Virginia Teachers has focused on whether or not the State Department of Ed can be held to account for the views presented in a forum they sponsored. That she or they can claim her views about erasing history and removing any talk of American Exceptionalism are her own. That her claiming they are her own is enough.
It’s not enough for anyone not on the left, and given all the chatter about public Ed in that State, I think they knew what they were getting when they invited her. Perhaps a few women in the Virginia Dept of Ed or on some of these radicalized school boards should join Dr, DeCuir on that theoretical trip to Kabul. No?
How about a presentation on why not?
And then you could begin to cleanse your agency of any more whitewashers of history. That will mean dumping the 1619 project, CRT, SEL, and the rest of it.
On the bright side, you’ll have time to teach science and math, and reading which has proven, throughout history, that it can help any person, regardless of faith or color, to rise above poverty, racism, and (gasp!) dependency on the state for their understanding of history and the world.
But we wouldn’t want that now, would we Dr. DeCuir.
