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  • British schools drop Holocaust from history lessons so as not to offend Muslims

    08/18/2012 12:40:31 PM PDT · by george76 · 84 replies
    Hot Air ^ | August 17, 2012 | Howard Portnoy
    A new report by Britain’s Department for Education and Skills notes that an increasing number of schools are dropping the teaching of the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim students. The report, titled Teaching Emotive and Controversial History, also observes that many teachers are reluctant to discuss the Crusades because the lessons frequently contradict what is taught in local mosques... 30 non-Muslim children at an elementary school in Scotland were required to visit a mosque in Glasgow, where they were instructed to recite the shahada, the Islam declaration of faith, which states, “There is no god but Allah...