ASHLAND, Va. – If students at Hanover High School didn’t know any better, a video shown in one class would leave the impression “America was an evil empire,” blogger Tom White told CBS.

White recently ignited an online firestorm with a blog on the “Virginia Right” website about a video – “Searching for the Roots of 9/11” by Thomas Friedman – shown to Hanover High School students that explained the terrorist attacks from an Arab perspective.

A concerned parent contacted the blogger about the blatant anti-American bias in the film, which features an Arab student who explained “What happened on 9/11, I don’t agree with, but I think this was the last way they could get the point across and were forced to go to the extreme,” the news site reports.

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“They didn’t present the American side of this,” White told CBS. “If I didn’t know anything at all about what was going on in the world and I watched what they showed our kids, I would assume America is an evil empire.”

Connie Lesko, a high school parent who lost a friend during the terrorist attacks, said she believes school officials should have consulted parents before showing the one-sided video.

“In my eyes, there’s nothing they could say that would justify that day or what happened,” Lesko said. “Therefore all the parents would want to know what was being said and shown to their children.”

School officials, of course, defended the video, but told CBS it’s not part of the county’s curriculum and was only used by one teacher.

Superintendent Jamelle Wilson said they’re required to teach about terrorism, and the video was part of that process.

“The goal was to help students determine, to be presented with different opinions and consider those,” Wilson told the news site.

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The district’s Board of Supervisors dished the issue off to an education committee to sort out, but the issue appears far from over.

More than 13,000 people have already flocked to White’s blog, while others have read another blog he authored for the site Before It’s News, in which he calls on readers to inundate school officials with their opposition to the video.

“The vast majority (of readers) are outraged that our schools are teaching kids to sympathize with the terrorists who brought us 9/11 and the beheadings we see with regularity now,” White wrote.

“The objection I have, as well as most people I have spoken with on this topic is not so much the content of the video itself, although that was very disturbing,” according to a letter to school officials White posted on Before It’s News.

“But the school failed to give any point of view other than the Middle Easterners. And watching the video without a balanced presentation from an opposing point of view (like America’s) leaves these young impressionable minds with the impression that America has been killing Arabs for decades without reason or provocation.”

CBS’s headline said parents feared the video was “sympathetic to terrorists.”