Weed out textbooks offensive to Muslims

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 16 February, 2006 | David Rennie

[Roy Tucker]

School textbooks should be reviewed for intolerant depictions of Islam and other faiths by experts overseen by the European Union and Islamic leaders, the European Parliament was told yesterday.

The call for a special committee to examine religious education in schools came from Hans-Gert Pöttering, the German Christian Democrat, who heads the largest group of MEPs. But the proposal was immediately condemned as "appeasement" by Charles Tannock, a British Conservative MEP.

Mr Pöttering, the head of the centre-Right, but largely federalist European People's Party, said the work of building bridges between Islam and the West had to "begin with young people".

During a debate intended to show Europe's unity in the face of the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, he said textbooks should be checked to ensure they promoted European values without propagating religious stereotypes or prejudice.

He also called for similar tolerance in the Islamic world, holding up examples of anti-Semitic cartoons taken from the Middle East and suggesting a parallel review should be made of Islamic school books.

He also suggested that the EU could co-operate with the 56-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has its headquarters in Saudi Arabia, to create a textbook review committee.

"They could help to choose the experts to sit on this committee," he said.

But Dr Tannock, the Conservatives' foreign affairs spokesman at the European Parliament, said: "This sounds like an exercise in political correctness and appeasement. I don't see why we should be bringing children into this debate."

[Roy Tucker]

Eurabia, here we come! I am sure that parallel review of Islamic textbooks will be forthcoming.

[Roy Tucker]

The science books should be really interesting.

I wonder when Arabic will be the compulsory second language taught in schools and officially a language of the EU.

[Cicero]

Yes. Politically correct parity. Pass a law forcing all countries belonging to the EU to censor their textbooks. And make a polite suggestion that the Muslim countries should do the same.

Fat chance.

[Eastbound]

Evolution textbooks are offensive to creationists. Where ya gonna draw the line?

[Roy Tucker]

The Euroweenies will implement the first bit but forget the second part about reviewing Muslim textbooks. They will need a commission to discuss that for, oh say, the next twenty years.

[Tzimisce]

I've often heard that democracy isn't for everyone, maybe it's not for the Europeans either.

[Sarajevo]

The latest installment of the "new" textbooks...

Tehran -- Iranian cattle farmer Gofauk Yousef Fukir came upon what appears to be one of the most holy of cow pies ever today while tending his herd. It seems his prize Bull Osama plopped out a turd with an uncanny likeness to the most holy prophet, Mohammed.

"This is no ordinary bullsh*t," insisted Gofauk Yousef. "This sh*t is like something directly from Allah above. It hardly even smells. Well, maybe a little. But I haven't bathed in two years, so who can say, yes?"

A team of Iranian bullsh*tologists, dispatched from Tehran university's religious artifacts division was pulled away from evaluating the booty they plundered from the Iraqi museum during the early days of the Iraq / US war to examine Gofauk Yousef's religious crap. After careful study they confirmed that the cow patty did indeed take on the appearance of manure from heaven.

"Holy sh*t! Holy sh*t!!" Gofauk Yousef could be heard calling out to his friends and family, all the while sporting a wide smile befitting someone who had quite literally just stepped in heavenly sh*t, "Pack up the tent. We're going to Disneyland!" This is the profit I've been waiting for from all these years of tending goddamned cows". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[boycottliberalhollywood.com]

I would looooooove to see a head-to-head conflict between these Islamic textbook 'reviewers' and a typical hard-core-liberal "Darwin is GOD" public school School Board textbook selection committee. I think the lib folks might just have a stroke or some sort of seizure, induced by the irreconcilable demands to suck up to Islam, versus their fanatical worship of Charles Darwin's Religion of Evolution. I suspect they might find their hard stance on evolution softens a tad. Especially when they get led to the chopping block.

Now if it was a college textbook selection committee, they'd simply blame Bush for it all, even as their heads are hitting the floor.

[America's Resolve]

suggesting a parallel review should be made of Islamic school books.

Yeah, right. Hope you got this in writing Hans.

[paul51]

Weed out textbooks offensive to Muslims

It would make more sense to weed out offensive muslims

[spinestein]

[He also called for similar tolerance in the Islamic world, holding up examples of anti-Semitic cartoons taken from the Middle East and suggesting a parallel review should be made of Islamic school books.]




HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!! GOOD ONE !!!!



Oh, he's serious.

[LegendHasIt]

Weed out textbooks offensive to Muslims

WEED OUT textbooks OFFENSIVE to MUSLIMS

There, Fixed it.

[Roy Tucker]

Yup, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.

[Petronski]

Let's take a look at some radical muslim schoolbooks from Hamas.

There's your "offensive" right there.

[notfornothing]

[He also called for similar tolerance in the Islamic world, holding up examples of anti-Semitic cartoons taken from the Middle East and suggesting a parallel review should be made of Islamic school books.]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!! GOOD ONE !!!!

Oh, he's serious.

LOL

Yeah - he's seriously trying to convince the world that he's not completely bending over and grabbing the ankles for the Islamofascists by throwing in the last part about "tolerance in the Islamic world." Classic CYA maneuver if I ever saw one.

[Codeograph]

Well, there goes "The 3 Little Pigs " :-)

[From many - one.]

They'll have already been weeded out as offensive to Moslems.

[Wolfhound777]

Wouldn't it be easier to weed out the offensive muslims? Probably more cost effective as well.

[Eastbound]

In the U.S.?