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Europe
European Experts Urge Reviewing Schoolbooks on Islam
2004-12-13
Europe should review its schoolbooks on Islam as a good start for introducing the true image of the Muslims' religion, European experts recommended on Sunday, December 12. "A lot of factual mistakes, misleading perceptions are prevalent in schoolbooks in Europe all over the past years, we have to admit," Wolfgang Hoepken, the director of Germany-based Georg Exkert Institute, told a three-day Euro-Arab Dialogue conference that opened here earlier in the day.

The Institute has analyzed several textbooks presented to school children in European countries on Islam. "There is relatively little on Islam in these selective texts," Hoepken said.
Posted by:tipper

#6  Europe should review its schoolbooks on Islam as a good start for introducing the true image of the Muslims’ religion, European experts recommended on Sunday, December 12.

Sounds like something the Paleos could use, but in their case, it's the stuff about everything else BUT Islam that needs to be checked for accuracy. Especially the writings about Jews, in particular.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-12-13 6:41:02 PM  

#5  Similarly, a number of participants have urged Muslim and Arab countries to clear their schoolbooks of “exaggerated fears” of the Other. Ashmawi’s study found that textbooks in Arab countries say, for example, that Moguls could have vanished all of the Muslim civilization if they were not defeated in Al-Quds. “This is unjustified exaggeration that should be removed also,” she maintained.

Well, the Morguls did manage to kill off an increadibly large fraction of the civilian populations of what Moslem countries they did conquer. I'm not sure this is an exageration.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2004-12-13 2:05:18 PM  

#4  Any chance they'll include a review of the textbooks the EU provided to the Palestinians? www.MEMRI.org translated the new textbooks not long ago, and "vicious" doesn't begin to describe them.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-12-13 1:58:43 PM  

#3  Clean up your textbooks' treatment of the US while you're at it.
Posted by: lex   2004-12-13 11:49:34 AM  

#2  And so the process of Dhimmification continues.
Posted by: N Guard   2004-12-13 10:35:53 AM  

#1  â€œWe have to know more on what’s going on in Islam

Agreed.

"which is no threat to western society,”

Oh, well, nice try, buster! We've already learned about taqiyya, according to first part of the sentence.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2004-12-13 2:36:39 AM  

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