For the TDSB, the "Lesson" of 9/11 Is Not About Jihad, It's About "Islamophobia"

This is from an actual TDSB doc (on "Equitable and Inclusive Schools") released in 2011:

Why is it important to talk about September 11 with our students? 

Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Religious Intolerance

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In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, we need to acknowledge the heightened risks faced by individuals who identify as Muslim or are thought to be followers of Islam. Individuals of South Asian or Arab descent, whether Muslim or not, have been the targets of harassment, religious intolerance, and racist violence. We need to be aware of the risks for these communities and to respond decisively. As well, there has been an increase in anti-Semitic incidents globally.

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We also need to challenge stereotyping, scapegoating, and misinformation that are the basis for racist incidents and acts of violence, and encourage students to separate the actions of an organization or individual from those of a particular group of people.

And here I thought it was important to talk about 9/11 because, in the words of Rudy Giuliani

It isn’t over. They’re still at war with us. The reason that September 11th happened is still very much part of our world, unlike World War II, World War I, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War. These are all part of our history...The people who attacked us there attacked us in the name of jihad in this insane thought that there should be one religion and the one religion should be Islam and that we are all infidels and that our capitalist system and our political system is an abomination.

But I guess that (i.e. the truth) wouldn't be "equitable and inclusive" in the TDSB sense (nor, for that matter, in the sharia sense).

Update: This, by Bruce Thornton, isn't "equitable and inclusive," either:

Eleven years ago today America was violently awakened to the fact that it was at war. The attacks of 9/11 were the latest gruesome assault in the long conflict between the West and Islam, a war most Americans didn’t know was being waged, a war that had been going on for 14 centuries. Yet for the following eleven years, America’s response to this war has been compromised by the serial violation of Sun Tzu’s dictum, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Eleven years on, we still haven’t taken an accurate measure of the enemy who wants to destroy us.