New Report on Iran's Extremist Textbooks

03-19-2008

Our friend Eli Lake has more on Iran's always inclusive educational system (watch my recent report on this for CBN News here):

 WASHINGTON — A new Freedom House study of Iranian textbooks finds that the Islamic Republic is teaching its children to embrace Islamic supremacism, preparing them to enter a political system that discriminates against women and non-Muslims.

The study, "Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks," is the most comprehensive to date of Iran's textbooks, analyzing 95 compulsory textbooks for grades one to 11. The main author of the study, Saeed Paivandi, is a sociologist at Paris-8 University and one of the few Western scholars to specialize in Iran's post-revolutionary education system.

Read it all. I've worked with Freedom House before on a CBN News report about Saudi textbooks, and they're top-notch.

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