[reagan_fanatic]

Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has worked aggressively to spread this message. "The kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials, and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education," he said on a recent speaking tour to several U.S. cities. "Not only have we eliminated what might be perceived as intolerance from old textbooks that were in our system, we have implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan."

I don't get why the Saudi's are not called out on this one. The Prince publicly stated that intolerant material was removed - here's proof that it wasn't. When a Saudi spokesman holds a press conference espousing this tolerance nonsense, why doesn't the press remind him of his statement, show him the offending passages, and ask him point-blank why they're still in Saudi schoolbooks?

Seems simple to me, but maybe I'm just being naive.

[Allegra]

...why doesn't the press remind him of his statement, show him the offending passages, and ask him point-blank why they're still in Saudi schoolbooks?

The press is probably on his side. Most of the media seems to side with the bad guys these days.

[floridaobserver]

Because 99 percent of the press aren't able to read Arabic. These people are famous for saying one thing in English, the opposite in Arabic.


Yassar Arafat was the master of this kind of double talk. It completely deceived George Walker Bush and Bill Clinton.