Sunday, April 1, 2007
Losing their moral core while bowing to their new reality.
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.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'...
No surprise, as the organized Muslim community in Britain has been boycotting Holocaust commemorations for years.
[h/t: BHG]
It's interesting that many people (rightly) object to the American religious right's desire to soft-peddle evolution and present it as just another theory alongside Creationism. They correctly see the inclusion of Creationism as making a mockery of education in order to please an extremist religious view. Yet many of these same people would willingly bow to similar pressure from the Muslims, in the name of cultural sensitivity. Or maybe it's just fear.
I would strongly recommend that all parents read the textbooks used by their children each year. You may be surprised at what is included, and what is missing.
All manner of glib expressions come to mind but dropping the holocaust from history lessons, "for fear" no less, is worse than dropping gravity from physics lessons.
"Saving the appearances" while eroding the fundaments.
What's next - dropping teaching the history of World War II because it may offend Germans and Japanese?
Or drop teaching what happened on 7/7 in London because it may offend Muslims?
Everyday the UK drops deeper and deeper into dhimmitude.
Well, I guess this confirms what the rest of the world has thought about the UK for years. They are weak. They can't even tell the truth for FEAR they'll upset someone. People don't respect a country that won't stand up for what is right.