This story from England is pretty scary -- if the radical wing of Islam can get a historical fact as well-documented as the Holocaust excluded from the curriculum because they are offended by the notion that there is something wrong with murdering innocent Jewish men, women and children, then there is somethign truly wrong.

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.

The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.

It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.

"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."

I'm terribly sorry, but you can take whatever immoral and hate-filled teachings about the Holocaust that are being spewed in your mosque and shove them up your collective arses -- the reality is that the Holocaust is well-documented and undeniable, just like the Turkish genocide against the Armenians. And as for the Crusades, they are simply one part of a larger clash of cultures that were taking place over hundreds of years -- beginning with the Muslim aggression against and conquest of Christian areas of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe beginning within the lifetime of Mohammad himself.

Oh, and by the way -- I suspect the school that was challenged by Christian parents had presented a view that was overly sympathetic to the Palestinians rather than a balanced view of the conflict in the Middle East (considering recent events in british academia with regard to anti-Semitic boycotts of Israeli students and scholars). But even so, I have a problem with those who insist that history conform to their religious views -- and would make run out of my classroom any parent who attempted to impose their religious viewpoint of history on me and my students.

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