Islam Textbooks Inflammatory, Group Says

A Muslim civil liberties group is protesting a series of children's textbooks that it says contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric against Islam.

The Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has begun a public awareness campaign Wednesday against the "World of Islam" books by Mason Crest Publishing.

The group says the books inaccurately portray Muslims as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion.

It was not immediately clear where the books are being used. The publisher did not respond to a request for comment.

The vice president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, which partnered with Mason Crest on the books, said Wednesday the Muslim group is misconstruing the meaning of the books.