The of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Philadelphia will use "An Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices" and urges teachers to avoid such terms as "Islamic terrorists," and "jihadists."
Diane Gramley, of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, explains more.
"There is a tactic they're using similar to what homosexual activists use to get into schools. They couch their approach as anti-bullying and to protect the vulnerable students so that all students feel like they're accepted. CAIR uses the same tactic."
It's unclear what exactly that partnership entails -- neither the Pennsylvania Department of Education nor the School District of Philadelphia responded to requests for comment, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Gramley adds CAIR also plans to teach how 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homeland in 1948, according to the Free Beacon.
CAIR-Philadelphia's announcement comes amid a rise in anti-Israel sentiment in educational materials. The 2025 handbook for the largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, included plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not specifically mention Jews, the news outlet reported.
CAIR's ties to terrorism has prompted Sen. Tom Cotton to try and strip the group of its tax-exempt status, according to the Free Beacon.
"They want to work with not only staff and administration, which, so that'd be the indoctrination process there, but, also to be one-on-one or in a classroom with students … to basically turn students into antisemites,” Gramley said.
