{"id":8219,"date":"2026-09-06T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:36:30","slug":"hijacking-history-woke-teachers-offer-twisted-9-11-lessons-focused-on-islamophobia-not-2977-innocents-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9\/11 lessons focused on ‘Islamophobia’ \u2014 not 2,977 innocents killed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Only two US states legally require that 9\/11 be taught in public schools \u2014 and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy.<\/p>\n

Read more Mamdani and his radical-left crew are trying to downgrade the unspeakable tragedy of 9\/11<\/a><\/p>\n

The hijacked history of America\u2019s darkest day has created a lost generation. According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 200,1 or why.<\/p>\n

New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept. 11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks.<\/p>\n

Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9\/11 attacks be taught in schools. Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks \u2014 which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, <\/p>\n

\u201cWe made a promise to \u2018Never Forget\u2019, but today, only a handful of states require 9\/11 to be taught in their schools,\u201d Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9\/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post.<\/p>\n

In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists \u2014 some backed by billionaire George Soros \u2014 are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching Beyond September 11th\u201d \u2014 a radical retelling of 9\/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists \u2014 focuses lessons on \u201cRight-Wing Extremism\u201d and \u201cIslamophobia and the Oval Office.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: \u201cOn 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. A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Education departments in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Oregon all recommend \u201cTeaching Beyond September 11th\u201d in public schools.<\/p>\n

The lesson does not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the terrorists, and appears to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks,\u201d the lesson states, without mentioning bin Laden\u2019s multiple confessions or his broader campaign of terrorism and declaration of Jihad against the US \u2014 which he labeled the \u201cworst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other topics in \u201cTeaching Beyond September 11th\u201d include \u201cSurveillance of Muslims,\u201d \u201cThe Muslim and African Ban,\u201d and \u201cMuslim Youth and Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lesson on the 2005 riots over a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad \u2014 which caused the deaths of 250 people globally \u2014 asks students to discuss how the media \u201cpresented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zineb Riboua, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Post that the attempts to rewrite 9\/11 history was part of a broader leftist project.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou teach kids that America is responsible for the atrocities around the world to develop a moral framework that can be activated very quickly to get policies that reduce America\u2019s power and sovereignty,\u201d Riboua said.<\/p>\n

She added that leftist activists were taking a page out of The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps playbook in targeting their propaganda at schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cAyatollah Khamenei said the best audience to target is students,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sept. 11 history has been hijacked in other ways:<\/p>\n