Holocaust Denial, Approved

What is the West coming to? The Daily Mail reports

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.

Unbelievable. I understand that this is Britain, not the US. But still. If it's happening over there, why wouldn't it come here?

I'm all for multi-culturalism. I love learning about different cultures and religions and all that. The most interesting place I ever lived (ironic, given history) was Germany because, being the capital, the city was alive with so many different cultures. The worst place I've lived was Rochester, MN, because it was just so pale; white people everywhere. Boring. Our country is based on the melting pot idea of bringing all different types of people together. But it does go both ways. We should always respect people of different backgrounds. But we must also expect the same in return. Respect and so-called tolerance is not a one way street.

We should not be skewing the education of our children away from teaching important history because those same students might be confronted with a different view than they get at home. We should no more do that than skew education in favor of some right wing Christian views of "science".

We should respect Muslim students and understand that they may hear different things at home. But at the same time we should expect those same students to return the favor and recognize that not everyone hears the same thing and shares their views.

That should be obvious. Yet, we're seeing this in British schools now where sensitivity to the Muslim students takes precedence over everything, including basic responsibility to educate about history. So maybe it's not.