"The Brits are not teaching the Holocaust because there are Muslim students in there who are Holocaust deniers, and they don't want them to be offended! "
I used Lexis-Nexis to look into this and as usual, the truth is far removed from Fats' claim. (BTW, the link on Fats' site to the Daily Mail article doesn't work.)
One would think that this is official educational policy or that it was widespread. In fact, it is neither. The Express lets us know that it is not official policy:
The Express
April 2, 2007 Monday
U.K. 1st Edition
SECTION: NEWS; 7
LENGTH: 377 words
HEADLINE: Why teachers drop Holocaust lessons
BYLINE: By Padraic Flanagan
Education Secretary Alan Johnson has ruled that subjects including the Holocaust are "untouchable" and must be retained. And Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "Not only are schools required to teach about the Holocaust, it is hugely important that they do so."
Intead of a widespread phenomena, the Daily Post lets us know the report only found ONLY ONE SCHOOL in which the Holocaust was not taught:
Daily Post (Liverpool)
April 2, 2007, Monday
North Wales Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11
LENGTH: 404 words
HEADLINE: BRITAIN: Schools ignore the Holocaust;
'Teachers don't want to cause offence'
BYLINE: TIM ROSS
The researchers gave the example of one history department in a secondary school in a northern city which decided not to teach the Holocaust as a topic for GCSE coursework.
The report said the teachers feared confronting "anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils".
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