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Jews are not enemies of Islam, it is necessary to know Ramayana.. Why is Saudi Arabia secretly changing children's books?
Saudi Arabia changing textbooks: The Islamic country Saudi Arabia is changing the textbooks of the schools very quietly and the textbooks are being changed with such care and silence that very few people have come to know. American news channel CNN has claimed that Saudi Arabia is making such changes in textbooks in its schools, whose purpose is to bring children out of radical ideology and into liberal ideology.
Saudi Arabia's textbook change is being done with the aim of increasing tolerance in the country, but care is also being taken that no protest should start regarding textbook change.
Recently, it has been learned that in Saudi Arabia's textbook change, many things about Israel have been removed and new things have been added, after which it is believed that Saudi Arabia is gradually increasing its relations with Israel. He is trying to make Israel normal and he wants that the next generation in the country should not have a distorted feeling about Israel.
what kind of textbook changes are happening
Israel and the London-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) have said in a report that books in Saudi Arabia are being changed, in which hate languages about Israel and Jews are used. have been done.
Almost every textbook in Saudi Arabia contains fundamentalist texts about Judaism and Christianity, which have now been removed from the new textbook.
Recently, some lines have been removed from a school textbook in Saudi Arabia, in which there is a line that "Jews and Christians are the enemies of Islam." At the same time, several chapters on the ongoing dispute over Israel and Palestine, which are still being taught against Israel, have been removed, among which 'Israeli enemy', 'Israeli occupation forces', 'enemy Jews', ' The Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories' have been removed. Apart from this, the things written about many Israeli attacks on Palestine have been removed from the book.
Earlier, in the syllabus of 2022-23, a poem based on patriotism in Saudi Arabia, titled 'Palestinian opposition to ghetto settlement', was removed.
In the 2022–23 syllabus, a lesson on patriotic poetry removed an example of "opposing the ghettos of Palestine". A high school social studies textbook no longer has a section describing the positive outcomes of the First Intifada, the Palestinian insurgency against Israel in the late 1980s. and one textbook "deleted an entire chapter addressing Palestinian issues."
According to the report, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education takes the help of IMPACT-se think tank to make changes in school books and changes are being made based on its suggestions.
Criticism of terrorist organizations
According to IMPACT-se, Saudi Arabia's new curriculum severely criticizes several terrorist organizations, including organizations such as Hezbollah, ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Houthi militia and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Indeed, Saudi Arabia's school curriculum came under intense scrutiny in Western countries following the 9/11 attacks in the US. After which hate speech about western countries and many religions was revealed in Saudi school books. In the US attack, 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Osama bin Laden himself was also a resident of Saudi Arabia and since then the Saudi government slowly started making changes in the books. But now this process is being done very fast with silence.
Earlier in the year 2021, the Saudi Arabian government released a new curriculum, in which Hindu religion and Hindu civilization were included in school books along with Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Along with Indian culture, Yoga and Ayurveda were also included in different class books in the 2021 syllabus of the Saudi Arabian government. The Saudi Arabian government had said at that time that their aim is to introduce the coming generation of the country to different cultures and the government is trying to make the new generation of Saudi read about Ramayana-Mahabharata, Indian culture, Yoga and Ayurveda and educate them. Understand."
