History Through the Proper Filter

 

                                        History Through the Proper Filter

A British survey of teaching tendencies revealed this incident.

One history department looked at by the fact-finders was found to have cut information about the Holocaust from its lessons due to worries that Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic reactions. Said the report: “For example, a history department in a northern city recently avoided selecting the Holocaust as a topic for GCSE coursework for fear of confronting anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils.”

This event has been declared symbolic of the educational system of Britain although it was a single, local Board decision. But any reworking of history to placate the ignorance of a group is not healthy.