28.06.2011                      26.Siwan, 5771

Ägypten:

'Egyptian curricula states Jews, Christians are infidels'

Israeli think tank says drastic reforms are needed in Egyptian schools in order to comply with UNESCO standards.

Egypt’s school curriculum, laden with anti-Semitic and anti-Christian sentiment, must undergo drastic reform to comply with international standards, according to a new report to be presented this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“Egypt has to conduct fundamental reforms in its curricula, which present a national identity based solely on the Islamic religion,” said Yohanan Manor, chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), the Jerusalembased think-tank that compiled the report….