Apr 01 2007
Holocaust history too insensitive for English curriculum
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
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Creeping Sharia. These _ do NOT want the truth told about them. Recommended (by me, not by the imams) reading would include Orianna Fallaci’s The Force of Reaon.
BTW, this article turned out to be a load of rubbish…….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6563429.stm
……well, i suppose it is the Daily Mail after all……
……and lets not get into discussing ‘the crusades’, as the actions of so-called ‘Christians’ of that time - including the then Pope - would tarnish the good name of many people of the faith…..
Kadafi
It isnt totally rubbish. The article never claimed that this was anything but siolated, and the article you only indicates that it is not instutional in all of the UK.
If any schools are, as the original article claims, not teaching it to preserve offense, this is a serious problem.
This story is not true.
Read this story in the Ha’aretz Israeli newspaper, denying it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/929661.html
So just because one publication says something isn’t true and then another one contradicts this, we can believe one or the other? Or maybe they are both true to an extent?
Whats important is to aknowledge that certain things through history happened - FACT!! if you dont like that these events happened - TOUGH.
If in a country it is learnt that something happened, because the events have effected the present day, then who is anybody, to come along and say we shouldnt acknowledge this.
I believe it is important for the people of tomorow to learn about yesterday in order to understand the world. At the time i don’t know how many muslims were affected by the holocaust? I wasnt affected and nor were my family. But at the time many millions of jews and other prisoner of war were affected and there families have that history. No one has the right to take that away.