cautioned Brotherhood figures and the group’s Istanbul-based media to tone down their rhetoric is going to do little to convince either them or Egypt, the Gulf States, and Israel that the leopard is changing its spots.
Erdogan is walking a fine line. His efforts to patch up differences with his detractors threaten to undermine his claim to leadership of the Muslim world in competition with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, and Indonesia. But his projection of himself as the primary defender of Islamic causes has garnered him significant street credibility in various Muslim-majority countries.
The reorientation of Turkey’s curriculum serves his aim of raising a “pious generation” at home, as well as his positioning of Turkey internationally.
Turkish, not Saudi, school books under scrutiny
Turkish, not Saudi, school books under scrutiny
In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world.
(April 28, 2021 / Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) According to a recently released analysis of 28 Turkish textbooks, that country’s education system, which was once a model of secularism that taught evolution, cultural openness, tolerance toward minorities and Kurdish as a minority language, has increasingly replaced those concepts with notions of jihad, martyrdom in battle and a neo-Ottoman and pan-Turkist ethno-religious worldview.
EU condemns UNRWA for hate speech and violence taught in PA schools
In first, European bloc passes resolution against United Nations refugee agency following report that highlights examples of organization s curriculum containing inciting material against Israel and Jews in nearly every subject
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Published: 04.28.21 , 20:46
The European Union on Wednesday passed an unprecedented resolution to condemn the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees for printing, distributing and using textbooks inciting and endorsing violence against Israel and the Jewish people in Palestinian Authority schools.
The resolution expresses concern about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by the United Nations
A team of US envoys is traveling to the Middle East this week for talks with key allies, a senior.
The organization’s CEO, Marcus Sheff, said that “the European Parliament has shown the way for all those who do not want to write blank checks to this deeply flawed organization.”
“It is crystal clear that an external audit of UNRWA’s teaching materials is necessary before millions of taxpayer dollars are transferred to finance the daily radicalization of children,” Sheff said.
Sheff also noted that the European Parliament’s resolution was “the very first time a legislature has stepped up and said to UNRWA, ‘enough’.”