Child's play
 
Confronting hateful fictions in Muslim textbooks is more than political
correctness: It can mean the difference between war and peace.
 

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

AMERICANS may think we know about textbook wars: the petitions signed, school
boards ousted, late-night PTA meetings over references to sex or Darwin. But in
parts of the Muslim world, the contents of some textbooks can lead, literally,
to bloodshed. In reaction, according to The Associated Press,
"hate-hunters" from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf have begun to scour
their nations' textbooks and demand that vitriol and intolerance toward other
cultures be culled.
 
 

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