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This is a Saudi textbook(After the intolerance was removed.)

May 22, 2006 7:23AM PDT

Saudi Arabia's public schools have long been cited for demonizing the West as well as Christians, Jews and other "unbelievers." But after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis -- that was all supposed to change.

A 2004 Saudi royal study group recognized the need for reform after finding that the kingdom's religious studies curriculum "encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion, they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the 'other.' " Since then, the Saudi government has claimed repeatedly that it has revised its educational texts.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has worked aggressively to spread this message. "The kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials, and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education," he said on a recent speaking tour to several U.S. cities. "Not only have we eliminated what might be perceived as intolerance from old textbooks that were in our system, we have implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan." The Saudi government even took out a full-page ad in the New Republic last December to tout its success at "having modernized our school curricula to better prepare our children for the chal

all lies why arent we supprised the "peacefull" religion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901769.html

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Its a step Mark. Let's applaud a small success while
May 22, 2006 6:04PM PDT

pressing for more progress at the same time. Washington wasn't built in a day.

Rob

BTW I don't recall a response on the snake situation, is everything okay, or reasonably okay? You have had my best hopes and best wishes since you talked about it.
R

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ty rob
May 22, 2006 11:00PM PDT

seems we lost 20 snakes in club.
i lost only 1 here my sinolan milk snake.
my others are cleanHappy i sweated out so many fecals to check.
thank you

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Again, here we see more clearly...
May 22, 2006 7:56PM PDT

that's not Muslim or Islam way is at fault... its the people, group of people, or country where they teach them in the wrong way...

Just like anything else, it can be used in the wrong way by the wrong people..