New public school standards that soon will be in effect in Texas call for lessons that link “radical Islam” to the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 innocent civilians and will have students study Muhammad’s “brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes.”
Aaron Kinsey, chairman of the Texas state Board of Education, said the committee “worked through, democratically, how to make those choices on behalf of our constituents” and said the result was “exceptional.”
A report at Fox News explained there was significant special interest opposition to the inclusion of such facts in school history lessons , like Islam’s “normalization of slavery” and the assaults on woman through the taking of “harem slaves.”
The social studies curriculum covers U.S. history, government and world geography.
The lessons note that “radical Islam” motivated the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, not limiting the motives to just various terror organizations themselves.
Several Democrat members complained but were outvoted by the majority.
The Republican-majority Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has approved rewrites to the state’s high school social studies curriculum.
The new standards alter how major world religions are taught, change descriptions of historic events, and are scheduled to be phased into… pic.twitter.com/U0L3zit2zu
— Matt Robinson (@mattrobinson) September 7, 2026
A 15-year-old Muslim student told the Texas Tribune, “I shouldn’t have to defend my religion in the middle of history class because of one sentence someone on this board wrote.”
Educators likewise complained about having to deliver facts.
“Andrea Hutchison, a social studies curriculum coordinator for Prosper ISD, argued the material did not ‘hold up to close historical scrutiny,’ according to the outlet. Robert Koons, a philosophy professor at UT-Austin, said most nonreligious scholars find the source of the claims ‘not very reliable,’ adding that he would warn against including material that is ‘not based on well-established secular sources,'” the report said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Texas chapter complained the teaching will “denigrate Islam” and “entirely erase Palestinian history.”
The national CAIR organization has been designated a terror group by government units inside and outside the United States.
CAIR long has tried to influence education standards wherever Islam in mentioned. And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had expressed concern about a pro-Islam bias being installed.
I’m hearing troubling reports that the Texas State Board of Education is being pressured by CAIR to whitewash the history of Islamic conquest, expansion, and jihad.
To my fellow Texas Republicans on the SBOE: do not back down. Do not bow to pressure. Texans students deserve to… https://t.co/R5ful6z9CN
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 3, 2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also has been active in opposition to Islamic courts being imposed on Texas populations.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott is officially PURGING Sharia law and Islamic courts from all of Texas
Islam is NOT compatible with the West!
“I am deploying the Texas Department of Public Safety to ROOT OUT ANY Sharia courts in the state of Texas.”
“We will pursue this until we… pic.twitter.com/GtNZKjipQd
— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) September 5, 2026
CAIR complained about the connections between Islam and 9/11 being “propaganda.”
Its statement said, “Texas students of every background deserve an education that tells the truth about their history and their neighbors’ history, not propaganda that teaches them to see each other as threats or erases them from the story altogether.”
The classroom changes are expected to be moved into classrooms gradually during the 2030-31 school year.
