Egypt’s school curriculum, laden with anti-Semitic and anti-Christian sentiment, must undergo drastic reform to comply with international standards, according to a new report to be presented this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“Egypt has to conduct fundamental reforms in its curricula, which present a national identity based solely on the Islamic religion,” said Yohanan Manor, chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), the Jerusalembased think-tank that compiled the report.
“Egypt’s schools present Islam as the ‘only true faith,’ and believers in other religions – including Coptic Christians – as infidels,” he said.
What's also interesting is that while the authorities under Mubarak promised to reform school curricula to remove references to Jihad and language that promotes intolerance and violence against non-Muslims, the Muslim Brotherhood at the time said they were against such measures:
The Muslim Brotherhood flatly rejected any talk of education reform, while several news outlets took positions in favor.
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