Officials from Brevard Public Schools are on the defensive after parents began to discover a textbook in world history classes is openly promoting Islam.

The Prentice World History textbook has a 36 page chapter on Islam but no chapters on Christianity or Judaism. The book, intented for 9th graders, declares Muhammad the “Messenger of God”. The book includes large passages from the Koran but not a single verse from the Bible.

The book says “some believed he was the messiah” in mentioning Jesus and later says he was executed but nothing about his resurrection.

“An analysis of one textbook cannot provide a balanced understanding as to what the students in Brevard Public Schools are learning throughout their academic careers,” spokeswoman Michelle Irwin said in a statement to Fox News.

Citizens for National Security, who brought the use of the book to light, said that one of the people listed as an “academic reviewer” on the book is a man who leads a group aimed at Islamic propaganda into school books in an attempt at a “silent jihad.”

Shabbir Mansuri of the Institute on Religious and Civic Values (formerly the Council on Islamic Education) is mentioned in a 2001 OC Weekly newspaper article as waging a “bloodless revolution: promoting an increased emphasis on world cultures and faiths – including Islam – inside American junior high and high school campuses.”

Mansuri was quoted in the Orange County Register in 2009 denying they promote Islam in their work and said the criticism is from the “children of 9/11” who are miseducated.