Friday, June 20, 2008

It only gets worse

Saudi schoolbooks are definitely a problem, but it seems that Iranian textbooks are even worse. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education reports that Iranian textbooks indoctrinate children to prepare either for the final victory of Islam, or for martyrdom (if this sounds remarkably like Ahmedinejad's speeches, it's probably no coincidence).

Iranian youth is quite critical of the regime, but as Institute researcher Shayan Arya points out, if even 100,000 are indoctrinated, they represent a big problem for the West. See this webpage for further details (thanks to the Hudson Institute's News & Review).

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