How American textbooks proselytize Islam

As “The Trouble with Textbooks” shows, textbooks relate Christian and Jewish religious traditions as stories attributed to some source (for example, “According to the New Testament…”), while Islamic traditions are related as indisputable historic facts. The authors cite the textbook “Holt’s World History,” where one can read that Moses claimed to receive the Ten Commandments from God, but Muhammad simply “received” the Koran from God. In the textbook “Pearson’s World Civilizations,” the book instructs that Jesus of Nazareth is “believed by Christians to be the Messiah”- which would be a fine comparative religion study observation if the book didn’t also disclose that Muhammad “received revelations from Allah.”