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A Muslim family in Mumbai. | Vivek Prakash/Reuters On January 30, The Washington Post published a report that came as a pleasant surprise to Muslim reformists. It said that that Saudi Arabia was purging its textbooks of anti-Semitic, homophobic and misogynist content. Among the passages that were removed was a section that supported capital punishment for homosexual relations, adulations of extremist martyrdom and its characterisation as the highest aspiration of Islam, misinterpreted Quranic verses that extolled the superiority of men over woman and justified domestic violence, and a statement attributed to the Prophet that spoke of the killing of all Jews by Muslims as one of the signs of the Day of Judgement. ....