tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post5623733853058705096..comments2024-02-16T22:14:46.997-05:00Comments on Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: Dropping the Holocaust from textbooks: A Crazy Rumor Persists with a change of continentDeborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-89535440255754100612007-11-21T07:41:00.000-05:002007-11-21T07:41:00.000-05:00Deborah-It was my understanding as well, that once...Deborah-<BR/><BR/>It was my understanding as well, that once the British press reported that certain teachers were electing to drop the Holocaust from their syllabus, the public outrage was such that greater funding was appropriated specifically for Holocaust education. Am I correct on this?Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-64489611725489237612007-11-21T07:34:00.000-05:002007-11-21T07:34:00.000-05:00DeB: The British School system is not what it was,...DeB: The British School system is not what it was, in my day it was kind hearted tweedy types, wearing cardigans and sensible shoes, whose love for their pupils was legendy. These tweedy types have been swamped by a new militant crowd, who seem to be more concerned with human rights, Iraq, Iran, abortions, spreading the Socialist message and joining strike picket-lines. As Bob Hope might have said if Stalin hasn't put them on the payroll then Communismn is not all its professed to be. To compound the problem our TV news shows daily what we call 'inner city schools', with 30 different nationalities attending. The teachers don't know what to do with them so they are given crayons and told to draw all day. I predict the days of the great British writers are over, and we will soon lead the world in ART. You then have little snippets like MI6 Intelligence Services have identified 2500 known active Muslim terrorists, whose excursions to Al Quaeda training camps is to improve [presumably] their electrical skills? It's all so depressing. Who could have ever predicted that immigrants could be so ungrateful. Last week we had a racist incident near here, in which a group of Poles, we have 600 000+ Polish newbies, were told by a group of Jamaicans "to get back to their own country?" [off topic / *** Watched the film Cross of Fear yesterday - this is the best anti-racist film I've seen for ages.FAIIRPLAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057410466151320733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-84030369669538970462007-11-21T06:12:00.000-05:002007-11-21T06:12:00.000-05:00Fairplay: Take a look at my earlier posts on this....Fairplay: Take a look at my earlier posts on this. The teaching of the Holocaust has not been dropped wholesale from British schools.<BR/><BR/>Are there schools where teachers don't teach about it because of Muslim students, I don't doubt it.<BR/>That's disturbing and a real problem.<BR/><BR/>But is that the equivalent of the school system dropping the teaching... not by a long shot.Deborah Lipstadthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-10081531654139240532007-11-21T01:29:00.000-05:002007-11-21T01:29:00.000-05:00Thank you for bringing this to light; I hate getti...Thank you for bringing this to light; I hate getting these things forwarded to me. Rule #1: check snopes.com!Benji Lovitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695249834038406639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-86090438252403294982007-11-21T01:01:00.000-05:002007-11-21T01:01:00.000-05:00This rumour? was well publicised in the British pr...This rumour? was well publicised in the British press, and the 'write ups''included 'interviews' with British teachers who alleged that Muslim students became highly disruptive during lessons if the Holocaust was mentioned, so much so that the Holocaust was being dropped. If this was an hoax I don't know, if it was then I certainly fell for it. A school teacher friend confirmed in her class/es Muslims became [in her words] a bxxxxxxxxy nuisance at times and this was the sort of thing they did. It is a fact that on British campuses the known Jews are subjected to Muslim intolerance and they avoid Muslims by taking precautions such as 'not getting into a lift [elevator] with them'. <BR/><BR/>Unlike the USA, we have had 5 bouts of Muslim riots and Muslims declaring UK residential areas in British city's 'no go areas for whites and christians'. 9-11 sparked off a simmering and festering boil up of hate here between the 2 sides.FAIIRPLAYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057410466151320733noreply@blogger.com