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[Adventurer]

I don't people should jump the gun about PC culture in Brittania. That isn't fair. After all, they expelled a teacher who was wearing a burqa. Did they not? They also stripped a fanatic of his British citizenship and expelled him. They also put on trial some idiot who uttered violent things at a protest in England and said at his trial that he didn't think he would be taken literally. So the English are taking the fanatics seriously.

[Travelous Maximus]

I'm not trying to be rude, but I think that Muslims should try to become more open minded. The Holocaust is an undeniable fact that affected the lives of millions of people world wide. To not teach future generations about such an atrocity would mean to deny them a chance to learn what NOT to do when they will be in positions of power. I believe teaching these subjects is vitally important for the human race to learn from our collective mistakes so we can hopefully avoid making them again in the future.

[huffdaddy]

[thepeel]

[ddeubel]

And why aren't you screaming about all the regular school teachers who DO NOT teach about the holocaust.

I have much anecdotal experience to confirm this is very much the case.
There is also much factual evidence in this regard.

My point even more pointedly; this is in no way an issue of not offending Muslims (and if you think so, you are very deranged), it is more an issue of our own western cultural sensibilities and ignorances....

I remember many discussions about teaching the holocaust in many staff rooms back home. Many teachers had NO understanding of it, and as a result, just glossed or didn't even deal with it. Especially sad, this being a seminal event in western consciousness (along with WW1, industrialization and I'd also say, technology more and more) . I'd say not more than 1 teacher in 100 would even know who Primo Levi is/was.....pity and sad.

Celan would still be jumping into the Seine should he have lived today...and still muttering his famous lines...(much better in the German)

''Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening / we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night,''

DD

[huffdaddy]

[ddeubel]

Just reread this whole thread, a little more slowly than the first time. I'd like to add.....

ED209 -- Thanks for posting that article, exactly what this is about....

Jinju wrote,

[mack4289]

[jinju]

DD, you read? Because your reading comprehension is not up to par. In my post I never said you crack jokes about the holocaust, I said your pal Hite does. About you I said

[Adventurer]

This behaviour is politically incorrect in my view, because it doesn't promote debate in a democratic society and also integration. However, I also think ignoring some of the less palatable things done by Britain or the US in other countries to also be a problem. People are not open enough to discourse regarding both the Jews and the Arabs. I hope the two will settle their problems, so we can hear less of this stuff.

[igotthisguitar]

Question (hope it doesn't "offend" anyone):

Between history & the past, which is the ONLY ONE that ever changes?

If a tree falls in the forest ...

[bigverne]

[bigverne]

[otis]

A lot of Europeans still have problems with the Jews.

What's up with that?