The Southern Baptist Academy Blog

By Mimi Rothschild

The lengths that people will go to avoid offending people.  That we are willing to wipe away the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews (and other minority groups) in order to avoid offending Muslims is hard for me to stomach.

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

What about Christians who don’t believe in evolution?  That hasn’t stopped teachers.  Perhaps this situation speaks to the difference between fundamental Islam and Christianity.  Of course, this is quite selective.

“But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques.”

The more we whitewash history, the more we open ourselves up to the possibility of undergoing similar atrocities.  It’s time that our children face reality, no matter how ugly.  A lack of understanding about history is what allows such abominations to occur in the first place.

Read more at the Daily Mail.