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As I mentioned before, I'm overwhelmed right now. In fact, I'm not able even to read the daily paper from cover to cover. But thanks to an email heads-up from one of my homeschool parents, the matter of Saudi textbooks has been brought to my attention.
The following article, "This is a Saudi textbook (After the intolerance was removed.)," appeared in the May 21, 2006 edition of the Washington Post and is reproduced below in its entirety, with links enabled from the Washington Post web site:
Read the rest here.
- Un Agency Funded With Saudi Money Wants To Edit Worldwide Textbooks
From Fox News via Will at THE OTHER NEWS: The UN agency that promotes education wants a say in how future textbooks are written, and Saudi Arabia -- a nation whose own school books have been criticized for promoting hatred of Christians and Jews -- is...
- Some Textbook Revisions At The Islamic Saudi Academy
After years of asserting that no Wahhabist hatred fills the pages of their textbooks, the Islamic Saudi Academy, owned by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, has done some backpedaling. From this source: ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Islamic school in northern...
- Mad For Madrassas
From Investor's Business Daily: Islamofascism: Saudi money buys a lot in Washington, even an extension of a lease to an Islamic school that graduates terrorists and teaches its students it's OK to kill non-Muslims. A federal panel wants the Islamic...
- Obfuscation At The Islamic Saudi Academy
I have blogged many times about the Islamic Saudi Academy, alma mater of wannabe Presidential assassin Ahmed Abu Ali, valedictoriam at the school a few years before. One example of what I've previously written is here, and here is another. Now comes...
- Stuff That Seems To Be Ok With Barbara Schuddenboom
Here's a little report on Saudi Arabian textbooks, based upon the research of Ali Ahmed of the Insitute for Gulf Affairs: Nearly four years ago, Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed and author Stephen Schwartz conducted a study for the Foundation for the...
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Saudi Textbooks
As I mentioned before, I'm overwhelmed right now. In fact, I'm not able even to read the daily paper from cover to cover. But thanks to an email heads-up from one of my homeschool parents, the matter of Saudi textbooks has been brought to my attention.
The following article, "This is a Saudi textbook (After the intolerance was removed.)," appeared in the May 21, 2006 edition of the Washington Post and is reproduced below in its entirety, with links enabled from the Washington Post web site:
Saudi Arabia's public schools have long been cited for demonizing the West as well as Christians, Jews and other "unbelievers." But after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis -- that was all supposed to change.
A 2004 Saudi royal study group recognized the need for reform after finding that the kingdom's religious studies curriculum "encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion, they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the 'other.' " Since then, the Saudi government has claimed repeatedly that it has revised its educational texts.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has worked aggressively to spread this message. "The kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials, and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education," he said on a recent speaking tour to several U.S. cities. "Not only have we eliminated what might be perceived as intolerance from old textbooks that were in our system, we have implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan." The Saudi government even took out a full-page ad in the New Republic last December to tout its success at "having modernized our school curricula to better prepare our children for the challenges of tomorrow." A year ago, an embassy spokesman declared: "We have reviewed our educational curriculums. We have removed materials that are inciteful or intolerant towards people of other faiths." The embassy is also distributing a 74-page review on curriculum reform to show that the textbooks have been moderated.
The problem is: These claims are not true....
Read the rest here.
- Un Agency Funded With Saudi Money Wants To Edit Worldwide Textbooks
From Fox News via Will at THE OTHER NEWS: The UN agency that promotes education wants a say in how future textbooks are written, and Saudi Arabia -- a nation whose own school books have been criticized for promoting hatred of Christians and Jews -- is...
- Some Textbook Revisions At The Islamic Saudi Academy
After years of asserting that no Wahhabist hatred fills the pages of their textbooks, the Islamic Saudi Academy, owned by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, has done some backpedaling. From this source: ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Islamic school in northern...
- Mad For Madrassas
From Investor's Business Daily: Islamofascism: Saudi money buys a lot in Washington, even an extension of a lease to an Islamic school that graduates terrorists and teaches its students it's OK to kill non-Muslims. A federal panel wants the Islamic...
- Obfuscation At The Islamic Saudi Academy
I have blogged many times about the Islamic Saudi Academy, alma mater of wannabe Presidential assassin Ahmed Abu Ali, valedictoriam at the school a few years before. One example of what I've previously written is here, and here is another. Now comes...
- Stuff That Seems To Be Ok With Barbara Schuddenboom
Here's a little report on Saudi Arabian textbooks, based upon the research of Ali Ahmed of the Insitute for Gulf Affairs: Nearly four years ago, Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed and author Stephen Schwartz conducted a study for the Foundation for the...