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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Brigitte Gabriel, the author of two New York Times Best Sellers "Because They Hate" and "They Must Be Stopped." She is also the founder and president of ACT! for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over a quarter of a million members, 750 chapters nationwide and a full-time lobbyist on Capital Hill. She just issued a report titled: Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6th through 12th Grade American Textbooks.
FP: Brigitte, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Congratulations on issuing your new report, Education or Indoctrination. What inspired you to embark on this project?
Gabriel: When I was doing research for my second book "They Must Be Stopped," I came across numerous instances where information that was being put in school textbooks or taught in classrooms was inaccurate, sometimes outright false, and at times sounded more like indoctrination than education. ACT! For America Education executive director and I discussed this at length in 2009, because when we traveled and spoke to groups about this they were very concerned. We investigated the issue more closely and found there had been a handful of previous studies done on this, but we believed much more needed to be done. We also knew that if we did a report, we could leverage its impact by drawing on the strength of our growing grassroots organization. So by late 2009 we drafted a plan, created the budget to do it, and embarked on the research in early 2010.