LONDON (WJC)–Textbooks used in several Islamic schools in Britain promote anti-Semitic views, a BBC report has found. On textbook says Jews are cursed by God and “look like monkeys and pigs.” It also asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews. The curriculum in several schools contains homophobic views and in a book for 14-year-olds, Islamic Sharia law and punishment reserved for thieves are explained, including detailed diagrams about how hands and feet of thieves should be amputated.
The textbooks, which are part of a Saudi Arabian curriculum, are in use in more than 40 British part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students, the report found. The Saudi government said it had no official ties to the part-time schools and clubs and did not endorse them. Saudi officials said passages from the Koran were often “taken out of their historical context”.
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