As the UK Press Assocation reports, a network of “weekend schools” in England and Ireland have been called out for using what is, apparently, the Saudi national curriculum.
The story, which was broken in a BBC Panorama special, is distinctly unsettling: The “weekend schools” have been allowed to spread anti-semitism – as well as, according to the Daily Telegraph, instructions of the proper method of amputating thieves’ hands and feet – by a loophole in current educational inspection policy in the UK, which meant that they fell outside of Ofsted’s purview.
The schools are using what the BBC reported to be the Saudi national curriculum. Using this curriculum, six-year-old students were taught that Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims would burn in hell, whilestudents were asked to list the “reprehensible” qualities of the Jews. The textbook for fifteen-year-olds also cites as a source “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” stating that, although Jews try to deny them, “…there are many proofs of their veracity and their origin among the elders of zion,” or so the Daily Mail quotes.
Sounds like it should be an A for effort — the diagrams were well-done — but D- for research and proper sources.
Catholic boarding schools 