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Edurevue 's List: Saudi Arabia

  • Jul 22, 08

    The New York Sun, 2008.07.22

    www.nysun.com/...82328

    • These passages, it should be noted, are from new, "revised" Saudi textbooks. Following a similar analysis of earlier versions of these same textbooks in 2006, American diplomats immediately approached their Saudi counterparts about the more disturbing passages, and the Saudis actually agreed to conduct a "comprehensive revision ... to weed out disparaging remarks towards religious groups."

  • Jul 18, 08

    The New York Sun, 2008.07.18

    www.nysun.com/...82163

    • The report from the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute finds that the Saudi textbooks are filled with the austere supremacism of the Wahhabi sect of Islam, despite promises from the Kingdom in 2006 to alter them. For example, a textbook for 10th graders on Islamic jurisprudence not only says it is permissible in Islam to murder a homosexual, but recommends the methods for doing so: burning alive, stoning, or throwing oneoff a high building.

  • Mar 21, 08

    Yemen Times, 2008.03.19

    yementimes.com/article.shtml

    • Following the attacks of 11th September, in which the majority of those involved were Saudi nationals, international attention focussed on the Saudi education system. Studies by Western experts showed that, not only did education in the Kingdom concentrate very strongly on religion, it was also extremely tendentious. In 2006 an American study demonstrated that Saudi children were taught to be missionaries of Islam.

  • Jan 02, 08

    FAZ.net, 2007.12.11

    www.faz.net/...220~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

    • Nach den Anschlägen des 11. September - der Großteil der Täter waren bekanntlich Saudis - wurde das Erziehungssystem in Saudi-Arabien von der internationalen Öffentlichkeit kritisch durchleuchtet. Studien westlicher Orientalisten ergaben, dass der Schulunterricht im saudischen Königreich nicht nur sehr stark auf die Religion fixiert, sondern auch durchaus tendenziös war. >>>SharedCopy>>> http://www.faz.net.sharedcopy.com/s/Rub117C535CDF414415BB243B181B8B60AE/7dd1d21ef67ad945b07fac528eedf1e1.html

  • Jun 04, 09

    VOA News, 2009.06.03.

    www.voanews.com/...2009-06-03-voa62.cfm islam

    • "Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress say Saudi Arabia has failed to remove offensive material from textbooks used in the kingdom's schools, including language promoting hatred of and violence against Jews." - Edurevue on 2009-06-04
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