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Study: Public School Textbooks in Pakistan Teach Intolerance of Non-Muslims
Cybercast News Service ^ | April 14, 2016 | 3:00 PM EDT | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 04/14/2016 9:00:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A new study released Tuesday found that Pakistan’s public school textbooks negatively portray the country’s religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis, as “untrustworthy, religiously inferior, and ideologically scheming.” […]

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sponsored the study, which was conducted by the Pakistan-based NGO Peace and Education Foundation (PEF). The study found 70 new instances of bias in addition to finding that some problematic content found in a 2011 study conducted by USCIRF had remained and even been expanded upon.

“Pakistan’s public school textbooks contain deeply troubling content that portrays non-Muslim citizens as outsiders, unpatriotic, and inferior; are filled with errors; and present widely-disputed historical ‘facts’ as settled history,” USCIRF Chairman Robert P. George said in a statement on the report’s release. “Missing from these textbooks are any references to the rights of religious minorities and their positive contributions to Pakistan’s development.” …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antichristian; education; jihad; madrassah; pakistan; punjab; rop; taliban; uscirf

1 posted on 04/14/2016 9:00:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’m waiting for that Pakistani Mars mission. Or toilets.


2 posted on 04/14/2016 9:07:42 PM PDT by ghosthost
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To: Olog-hai

And who funds those “schools”?

That’s right, our “allies”, the Saudi savages.

L


3 posted on 04/14/2016 9:10:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Olog-hai

Shocking...

Positively shocking.


4 posted on 04/14/2016 9:13:18 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

Do you mean like the public schools in this country teach intolerance of Conservatives?


5 posted on 04/14/2016 9:13:40 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Lurker

Those @#$@#$s got away with destroying my towers!!!!!

Also, pretty soon we’ll just have to go to the local school to find intolerance of Christians in books.


6 posted on 04/14/2016 9:14:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

And in other news, the sun rose again in the East!!!


7 posted on 04/14/2016 9:30:44 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

No mud puddles were involved.


8 posted on 04/14/2016 9:34:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
A new study released Tuesday found that Pakistan’s public school textbooks negatively portray the country’s religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis, as “untrustworthy, religiously inferior, and ideologically scheming.” […]

Wonderful. Let's give them some more F-16s.
9 posted on 04/14/2016 9:42:00 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Olog-hai

I have no exemplary proofs, but I will bet that Public School Textbooks in the US Teach Intolerance of Christians and Jews.


10 posted on 04/14/2016 9:56:39 PM PDT by matthew fuller (ROLL CRUZ!)
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