The Washington Times is a hotbed of conspiracy theory nuts, in fact I had a spat with them last year during the Cosmos series when they believes the show was nothing more than a left-wing conspiracy.

Now it seems as though they wish to take on Common Core as an educational standard. The Washington Times published a piece back on April 7, by Fox News Radio analyst Bethany Blankley titled, “Common Core ties to Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,” in which she claims that Common Core standards are an “Islamic Infiltration Of America.”

In the piece she managed to conflate multiple stories and conspiracy theories, even managing to make President Obama part of the overall supposed Islamic takeover.

Globally, Common Core originated from the “One World Education” concept, a global goal orchestrated by the Connect All Schools program. Its origin is funded by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). The director of QFI’s Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics is Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Banna. According to the WND website, in 2011, QFI “partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through … the ‘Connect All Schools’ project.” QFI states on its website that the initiative was founded in response to Mr. Obama’s infamous 2009 Cairo speech, during which the Muslim Brotherhood was seated in the front row. Mr. Obama’s mentor, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, received $49.2 million from Vartan Gregorian, a board member of the Qatar Foundation, who also is involved with Mr. Obama’s White House Fellowships Commission. Gregorian is an integral part of Connect All Schools, through which Qatar invested $5 million to teach Arabic in American public schools.

You seriously cannot make up this kind of stupid. The problem is that uneducated fools such as Blankley not only despise educations standards, they don’t understand them. And when a conservative doesn’t understand something they often get scared and lash out.

Blankely’s take on Common Core is nothing new from the right-wing and it really what we have come to expect.

The Washington Times is hardly a newspaper and is nothing but a fear-mongering tabloid for the paranoid right. They have previously published other works by Blankely as well in which she has claimed the Mulsim Brotherhood has infiltrated the US government.

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