07-15-2004, 03:04 PM
Saudi children `taught to disparage infidels'
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last year the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said there was ``no room in our schools for hatred, intolerance or for anti-western thinking.'' Officials announced two pilot programmes to develop new teaching methods.
But the Saudi Institute said yesterday there was no evidence the pilot programmes had taken place. The new curriculum, it said, had ``the same authors and the same ideas'' as the old one, but in different language.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last year the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said there was ``no room in our schools for hatred, intolerance or for anti-western thinking.'' Officials announced two pilot programmes to develop new teaching methods.
But the Saudi Institute said yesterday there was no evidence the pilot programmes had taken place. The new curriculum, it said, had ``the same authors and the same ideas'' as the old one, but in different language.
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