I wish that was an April Fools joke, but it appears it is not.

In the ever growing quest for Muslim appeasement, schools have long been target of demands for accommodation, and excessive sensitivity.  We give them prayer rooms, Muslim bathrooms they can clean their feet, custom school schedules for prayer time and God knows how many other specialized exceptions or favored treatment.

Well it was only a matter of time before the curriculum itself came under fire.

The Daily Mail via Hot Air:

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

How much more of this pandering and foolish political correctness will we have to witness?

Frankly, this fear of offending Muslims at the expense of the feelings of everyone else is doing nothing but make the Muslims more empowered to impose their views on others, and that just increases the resentment and bad feelings that they claim they are trying to reduce.

By dealing with what they see as the problem in this manner they increase the hostility and make the problem worse, while all along granting the Muslims a self created identity as a victim.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. 

~A.L. Rowse