A group of Wisconsin parents claim that a schoolbook about an Afghan girl's fight against the Taliban is indoctrinating their kids into Islam. Nasreen's Secret School tells the true story of a girl who defied the Taliban by going to school. But parents object to a passage describing her praying to Allah. "These things shouldn't be brought up," said district PTA president Sherri Keene.
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