The director of a Saudi-funded Islamic school in northern Virginia, accused of promoting religious intolerance, has been convicted of failing to report suspected child abuse.
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When Muslims and Christians unite: CBC Radio has a documentary on the battle between creationism and evolution in Turkey (scroll down to Part 2):
The radio programme discusses the involvement of the American creationists, and in particular The Discovery Institute, involved in the Turkish creationist movement. American creationists see their Muslim counterparts as allies in their battle against Darwinism.
The documentary also highlights how the Turkish military dictatorship in the 1980s intended to use American creationist material to combat left-wing political movements.
(Via an emailer.)
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The Ministry of Education in the UAE has reassigned some Islamist Emirati teachers from the Emirates Reform Society to other ministries where they do not have contact with children. (Via AE.)
Last week, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office warned Britons travelling to the United Arab Emirates of a “high threat from terrorism”.
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“Western civ”: an American war baby
In both its remote and immediate origins, “Western civ” was a war baby. The first such course was instituted at Columbia immediately after World War I, as a continuation of the “war issues” course offered during hostilities. It defined the traditions of the West as those for which the Allies had fought against the Hun. The course had few imitators between the wars, but after World War II it became the most widely taught history course on American campuses. Courses of this type were strongly urged by the influential report of Havard’s General Education Committee in 1945, whose principal concerns, according to a sympathetic commentator, were “‘why we fight’, the principles of a free society, the need to provide a consistent image of the American experience, the definition of democracy in a world of totalitarianism, the efforts to fortify the heritage of Western civilization, and the need to provide a ‘common learning’ for all Americans as a foundation of national unity.
- Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession
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The story of Debbie Almontaser, ex-principal and founder of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, NY. An example of how even working through the system can earn you a label of a jihadist (albeit a “soft” one).
