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.
European Parliament condemns UNWRA for teaching hate and inciting to violence in schools
Plenary session in Brussels - week 25
A resolution adopted Wednesday insists that EU aid must be made conditional on educational material’s compliance with UN values and the removal of hateful content
UNRWA worked intensively to block the resolution; Palestinian Prime Minister addressed parliament’s foreign relations committee to defend textbooks
The European Parliament adopted Wednesday an unprecedented resolution condemning UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, for teaching hate and incitement to violence in its schools.
The resolution demands that hateful material be “removed immediately” and insists that EU funding “must be made conditional” on educational material promoting peace and tolerance.
UNRWA commits to zero tolerance for anti-Semitism
April 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (JTA) Days after resuming U.S. funding for the troubled U.N. agency that administers to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the Biden administration says it has the commitment of UNRWA to “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitism, racism or discrimination.
“UNWRA has made clear their rock-solid commitments to the United States on the issues of transparency, accountability, and neutrality in all its operations,” a senior U.S. official said in an interview this weekend, describing the process that led last week to the administration announcing the resumption of funding. For access to this article please
Yemen’s teachers’ union accuses Houthis of indoctrinating children
Yahya Al-Yinai, a spokesman for the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate, told the Daily Telegraph that the militias had overhauled the teaching curriculum and installed their supporters as principals in just about 90 percent of the schools under their control.
Tuesday 20/04/2021
Students attend morning drills in Sana’a, Yemen. (REUTERS)
LONDON – Yemen’s teachers’ union denounced what it described as Tehran’s use of education to pursue a “policy of cultural colonialism,” in statements published by the Daily Telegraph.
According to the teachers’ union, Yemeni children are being indoctrinated with violent and anti-Semitic propaganda in areas controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthis.