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'The Jews worship the devil," the teachers tell 8th-graders. Later, in 10th-grade history class, students will learn that the Jews were responsible for the French Revolution and, of course, the Bolshevik Revolution. These are mild examples of the blatantly untrue "information" systematically taught in schools across Saudi Arabia. It is no wonder anti-Semitism is still alive and well. Every year, the Saudi education system breeds a new pool of extremists. Students are taught to hate Jews and Christians (as well as people of other religions) and encouraged to act violently against them. In a 9th-grade textbook on selected Hadiths, or...

Last summer,Saudi King Abdullah, shocked the world as he “made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians, and Jews” — going so far as to refer to the latter two as “our brothers.” Before you light the campfire and start singing Kumbaya lets stop this Politically Correct nonsense and examine who we are talking about. Lets call a spade a spade, Saudi Arabia the home of Islam, is a country that oppresses all non-Muslims. We are talking about the country where the official Government-run Airline warned people not to take non-Muslim religious items into the country (see Airports should...