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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I'm not an expert on Islam by any stretch of the imagination, but is Holocaust denial an actual religious belief or is it a cultural belief held by many people in countries where the people also happen to be muslims?
It's a subtle but important difference.
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Does it matter if it is cultural or religious? The fact of the matter is, most will take this action by the British education system as a form of appeasement to the Muslims. Sadly, appeasement is never the answer. Education should not only be focusing on the atrocity of the Holocaust, but about recent and present day atrocities as well.
By the way, did you know that the British penal system is rearranging many of the bathrooms in the prisons so that the Muslims will be facing the right way (east I think, sorry if it is another) when they urinate? That made the news about a month ago.
And yes, there is a whole lot wrong with the education system. It seems that the focus today is on making it interesting, dont bore the little dearies. The curriculum or method of teaching is too much like Sesame Street. Introduce some concept, 5 minutes later, ding ding ding, I see some are losing focus, on to another concept, 3 minutes later, the little dearies are getting bored again, ding ding ding, got to change the subject again.
Yes, chronological age will dictate to a certain extent how long to stay on one concept. But we should try and remember that the focus of education should be to teach first, entertain second. Now a good teacher will be able to do both and keep the attention of their students of course.
But so often now, subjects are so truncated. And to keep them interesting, in history they seem to jump around all over the world, trying to teach a bit of this and a bit of that, and in the end, you teach a whole lot of nothing. You dont know who you are as a society or a country and you wont know where you are going until you first find out where you came from. Sadly, Canadian history as presently taught does not do much of that. And it is indeed sad that as an end result, we know so very very little about our own country and we seem to have so little national pride. Perhaps we have national pride and we are apathetic about it, however, that does not make the situation much better. We so often seem to be a country that does not know where it is going. And when that happens, you eventually will set yourself up for some takeover and then in retrospect, will wonder how it could have happened.