It says that there was an email saying that these textbooks were biased against Muslims.

So they get a “very socially and fiscally conservative” former social studies teacher who “watches Glenn Beck on a regular basis” to examine the curriculum and write a report on it.

Huh??

I found this sentence confusing as it seems to be making contradictory statements.

I think they meant pro-Islam and biased in favor of Islam.

That would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it?

Could be either one.

Feel sorry for Irving having this right wing tea party crazy get elected to their school board. Prior to his election, he got mad because someone from the school district returned his call and he claimed he could not understand what she was saying because of her Spanish accent. I am 100% sure he is behind the claims about CSCOPE, but doesn't have the guts to own up to it.

And they did it after the incident you mention. He made no secret of being a Teabagger. This is what they want on their school board.

He may be behind the e-mail, but not necessarily. He may have just taken the opportunity to grandstand on it. There must be a million nutty RW e-mails with bogus "outrageous" claims out there that the Fox News junkies are feverishly spreading around. My parents receive dozens of them every single day. Any Teabagger in Texas with a little knowledge and an axe to grind against the public schools could have written it.

I listen to part of his show sometimes just to hear the crazy bullshit that people will believe.

Beck always throws out nonsense like this with absolutely no context - in this case he was just outraged that this story about the Boston Tea Party being a terrorist act was part of the school curriculum. When I heard it, my first thought was that this was a way to teach students about perspective - which this article says it was.

You would think these people, who are always going on about students being brainwashed, would appreciate that schools teach kids about perspective and how media can color stories.