Saudi curriculum in British schools 22, November 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Saudi Arabia, UK.Tags: Panorama, Panorama Saudi educaiton in Britain, Panorama Saudi schooling in Britain, Saudi education, Saudi education in Britain
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The BBC flagship investigative programme Panorama tonight airs a show focusing on the Saudi curriculum being taught in British schools.
Around 5000 pupils are being taught at schools and clubs using the official Saudi curriculum and Saudi Ministry of Education textbooks.
Anti Semitic and homophonic content is rife. One diagram even shows exactly how and where thieves’ hands and feet are chopped off. Charming.
The Saudi government insisted that it had no direct ties with the schools even though their official curriculum was being taught and Panorama obtained one of the Saudi textbooks from a building owned by the Saudi Government in the U.K.
The Saudi education establishment has had a notorious reputation for instilling anti-Shia, homophobic, anti-Semitic and generally anti-foreigner messages for decades. Under the particular delineation of powers in Saudi Arabia, traditionally social spheres like education were administered by the Wahhabi authorities. Only after 9/11 and enormous pressure from America were changes begrudgingly begun. Exactly how far such changes have gone is difficult to judge. While the more egregious examples of racist content may have gone, a general intolerant ethos remains.
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Again that use of ‘anti-semetic’ for being anti-zionist. Arabs are and were semites too you know?!
i think I am being inured to the effects of stories like this from Saudi.