think of this as the companion piece to the previous post in which you'll discover the lengths to which 'our' government goes to make sure you toe the line of 'official' thinking, so its 1984 and you've not noticed it yet;

Sunday marked a deadline for the University of North Carolina and Duke University to submit information to the Trump administration about the two schools' Consortium for Middle East Studies, after the Department of Education accused the joint program of biases against Christianity and Judaism.

The DOE called on the schools to provide a list of events it is supporting during the school year and a full list of courses it's offering, claiming in a letter sent late last month that in the program, "there is a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East."

The program should emphasize "foreign language instruction and area studies advancing the security and economic stability of the United States," wrote the department.

Critics denounced the demand by education secretary Betsy DeVos as part of President Donald Trump's Islamophobic agenda..........https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/22/devos-threatens-cut-funding-middle-eastern-studies-programs-portraying-islam-too