A Duval County school board member is under pressure to resign for sharing a post that said Islam is not a religion. The irony: the leading Islamic textbook in America says the same thing in Lesson 1, then spends the rest of the textbook describing Islam as a nation.

The charge is that he said something so hateful when he claimed that Islam is not a religion. It is an invasive political cult and the Koran contains instructions for Jihad. That charge can be tested against the leading Islamic textbook used in American Islamic schools.

The textbook "What Islam Is All About," by Yahiya Emerick, is one of the most widely used Islamic studies textbooks in America. Written for grades 7 through 12 and in print since 1997, it is taught in full-time Islamic schools, weekend mosque schools and adult classes.

The first lesson asks: "What is Islam?" In the 2008 printing, the answer on page 2 begins: "Islam is not a religion." That is the board member's post, almost word for word. He didn't invent it. He repeated the first lesson of a textbook used to teach Muslim children.

The loudest demand for his resignation comes from CAIR Florida, the same CAIR that Florida designated as a terrorist organization; Texas designated CAIR in 2025, and the UAE in 2014. In the Holy Land Foundation trial, where the charity was convicted of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas, CAIR, ISNA and NAIT were named unindicted coconspirators, and Judge Jorge Solis found "ample evidence" of their associations with Hamas. The mosque that joined the call lists on its Board of Trustees Parvez Ahmed, CAIR's national chairman from 2005 to 2008.

Tony Ricardo is being punished for accurately describing what the leading Islamic textbook used in American Islamic schools is teaching. The board needs to hear from the people who elected it.