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Education expert Gilbert T. Sewall, the director of the American Textbook Council is another researcher who also reports a decidedly "whitewashed" version of Islam in school history books. An example provided by Sewall is the textbook ''World History: The Modern World'', which intentionally omitted the religion of the 9/11 hijackers, simply referring to as "teams of terrorists."<ref>http://www.jesuslives.co.za/2009/03/12/report-us-textbooks-whitewash-islam</ref>  
 
Education expert Gilbert T. Sewall, the director of the American Textbook Council is another researcher who also reports a decidedly "whitewashed" version of Islam in school history books. An example provided by Sewall is the textbook ''World History: The Modern World'', which intentionally omitted the religion of the 9/11 hijackers, simply referring to as "teams of terrorists."<ref>http://www.jesuslives.co.za/2009/03/12/report-us-textbooks-whitewash-islam</ref>  
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Another form of revision is seen in the area of Biblical studies, in which even extreme and unwarranted views are presented as viable, such as which force [[homosex]] into passages describing Biblical characters, but where it otherwise would not fit. {{main|Homosexuality and biblical interpretation}}
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Another form of revision is seen in the area of Biblical studies, in which even extreme and unwarranted views on morality are presented as viable, such as which force [[homosex]] into passages describing Biblical characters, while engaging in "grammatical gymnastics" to disallow condemnations of it. {{main|Homosexuality and biblical interpretation}}
    
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