As far as i know, its only one school district. They stopped teaching students about the holocaust to avoid upsetting muslim students, and to avoid confronting anti-sematic sentiment. What do you think of that? Do you think its fair to just stop teaching people about the horrors of the past just because it might offend someone? (as far as i'm concerned, it should offend people. It isn't the sort of thing anyone should be okay with) wolfgang, you're an idiot. The issue is that this is WRONG, which is why i'm asking the question. And no one should be except from history. Muslims get offended because, traditionally, they hate jews. Do some research before you attack me, idiot.
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history is full of ups and downs. I don't think it's about the Holocaust, it's because it's about Jews and no wants to admit that.
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not teaching them about the past will ensure that these atrocities will happen again. we spent 1 year on the US and how it coped with the wall street crash and the depression, and spent about 2 lessons on the holocaust, not as a main column either. [im in the UK btw, although there are not muslims, or even non-whites in my history set] but if the muslims are offended, there is nothing anyone can do about it, in a few years the event will be wiped from the sands of time haha
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No. It is because many muslim students hate Jews and they don't want to have to suggest they are human beings. The rest of society, muslims included, should tells these jerks to F*ck off and live in their own fantasy worlds on thier own time, not someone elses.
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Ok, DUMB QUESTION! How is teaching the Holocaust upsetting MUSLIMS? I am a German American (whatever that means) and the Holocaust classes used to upset me, for different reasons. The only people that should be asking for them to stop teaching about the Holocaust would be the Jews and the Germans, since they were the main players. What % of Muslims were killed in the Holocaust? What numbers of their men and women, and children were exterminated? Being a German, I take those classes to remind myself that even a culturally beautiful society/people have the potential for evil. I am so sick of Muslims being offended by ANYTHING! They need to learn to live and let liveand just shut the hell up. When I face God, I will deal with my sins then, I don't need some A holes here on the Earth trying to tell me what they THINK is the correct path to God. Please, if you are a Muslim, I hope I HAVE offended you, if you truly had any faith, I wouldn't be able to offend you, you would be at peace.
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I think it's a sign of incompetence and cowardice of the teachers. I've got to know some fiercly antisemitic Muslims and I must say it is really not easy to discuss with such people. It is even hard to talk to one of them at once and must be much harder to speak to a whole class of such people, and I wouldn't want to be a teacher in that situation, but it is important and has to be done. I think teachers should get some special training how to handle the situations that can arise, because it is not an easy task. Not only regarding the Holocaust, but I have often experienced at school that teachers were not in control of the class. Students can really boycott a teacher if they want, but in such cases something has to be done against it, it is not right just to give in. And not all Muslims are that way and they can also learn better. Many think this way because they are influenced by their hate preachers and Islamic media, and it is very important that they get a better education. I've heard from a Jewish Holocaust survivor who regularly goes to schools in Germany to talk to the students that he once talked to a class consisting only of Muslims, with girls wearing headscarfs, and that they seriously listened to him and asked him and that he generally got a very good response from them and he was very happy and surprised about their reaction.
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