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Egypt's Sisi faces backlash against removal of the Quran from school textbooks


Published date: 23 February 2021 13:43 UTC
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Last update: 3 weeks 5 days ago
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is causing controversy by ordering education officials to restrict verses from the Quran to Islamic religion textbooks in the schools of the predominantly Muslim nation.
Sisi has ordered education officials to remove the same verses from the textbooks of all other subjects, a Ministry of Education official revealed recently.  
Reda Hegazi, the deputy minister of education, added that the Egyptian president had asked the Ministry of Education to allow moderate schoolteachers only to teach Islamic texts to pupils at the nation s schools.
The removal of these verses will weaken the curricula, especially the Arabic language curricula ....

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