MORE DETAILS ON IRONY IN DUBAI

HERE ARE MORE DETAILS ON A STORY I POSTED THE OTHER DAY:

Teachers object to book showing Jewish children

DUBAI — Education authorities here have promised to review a book taught in an international private school that features a photograph of two Jewish children sporting plaited hair and yarmulke. Dr Obaid Butti Al Mohiri, the Director of Curriculums Centre at the Ministry of Education, said he would order the withdrawal of the book for primary Class I of the Dubai International School if the complaints raised were found genuine.

Several teachers of the school telephoned Khaleej Times, complaining against the picture, captioned ‘We play together; we stick together’, featured in the book Friends Forever. The teachers said that of all the pictures in the book, the students reacted sharply to only this picture.

When approached, the Educational Zone took the stand that its role was only mediating between private schools and the Curriculum Centre. The zone receives textbooks from the schools and sends them to the centre for scrutiny.

A source in the school said that these books were imported from outside the country and had not been reviewed. When contacted, Dr Mohiri expressed anger that the matter was brought to him. “What should we do when we do not have enough staff to review textbooks in more than 400 schools countrywide?”

TO SUMMARIZE:

- They do hate Jews, not "Zionists."

- The Western media's soft racism of diminished expectations lets Arabs get away with this without 1 editorial. Imagine the outrage if Israel acted this way.