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o his her own prejudice it is not government policy in britain to stop teaching about the holocaust nor is there a widespread refusal on the behalf of schools to stop teaching about the holocaust or the crusades or any other matter that upsets some not all muslim students or their parents what there is is a british government study that shows that a tiny minority of teachers and only one university have stopped the teaching of these things so what there is is a trend a very minor trend on behalf of some teachers in britain to drop the teaching of these things there are some teachers who are afraid and it is a minor trend and definitely not a government policy i would agree that teachers and institutions that do drop teaching the holocaust where the teaching of the holocaust is a mandatory part of the school curriculum which it is not throughout the whole of the uk see above links should be reprimanded penalized however i believe that whoever originally wrote that email flew off into hysterics and is reproducing the very kind of prejudicial thinking that was at the root of the holocaust for the following reasons not all muslims are against this kind of teaching and by far not all teachers in britain are refusing to teach the holocaust but the email suggests such is the case in he uk such uncareful suggestion careless thinking betrays to my mind a fear of a muslim menace on behalf of the writer much like fear of a jewish menace once influenced people s thinking about society and politics black and white simplistic and essentializing and hysterical thinking is the very root of the fundamentalist kind of thinking that is always the cause of social entropy of the problem of social harmony in society breaking down it takes much more careful thinking feelings for there to be peace and such thinking takes effort common sense effortless lazy thinking usually is the enemy the myth of a muslim scourge menacing europe and america i e the west is increasingly influencing how many in the west think of the problems of their world and this myth echoes the racist mythology of a jewish scourge also the same study found the following to be the case a third school found itself strongly challenged by some christian parents for their treatment of the arab israeli conflict and the history of the state of israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination the report concluded in particular settings teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home in their community or in a place of worship so why didn t the writer of the email also pick up on this certainly this issue what i think of as the public bullying of education by religious fanatics has been a very significant issue in the us for example the kansas legislature mandating the teaching of creationism in its state public schools so why don t we need to guard ourselves against all christians and be weary of the christian and or free market fundamentalism that drives the administration of gw bush just as much as we need to be weary of all muslims and the fundamentalist driven government of iran the scourge that is menacing us today is that of unleashed fundamentalisms fundamentalists christian fundamentalists islamic fundamentalists and also free market fundamentalists as always are the ones driving this world into social entropy and ongoing constant warfare fundamentalists are too angry and too lazy to think in anything other than black and white and the writer of the email is thinking in black and white again it is neither a muslim nor a christian scourge in general but a growing scourge of fundamentalisms of muslim christian western and free market fundamentalisms that is troubling the world today it is not a clash of civilizations but a clash of fundamentalisms if you d like have a read of this book with this latter title http www powells com biblio 17 9781859846797 0 though i do not care much in general for the author christopher hitchens i could say along with him that god is not great when it is the god of a muslim or christian fundamentalist see his bestselling book here http www powells com biblio 18 9780446579803 0 and i agree with him that we need to get back on track and rigorously defend a secular public culture and the seperation of religion all religion from public especially educational policy one can teach about religion in an objective manner but you don t need to be a christian or muslim or to teach christian or muslim or any other religious value systems to teach children to be good and respectful not a single religion has in practice a monopoly on or can claim singular goodness feel free to forward this to your list if you d like stefan original email message in memorial this week the uk removed the holocaust from it s school curriculum because it offended the muslim population because they say it never occurred this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easy each country is giving into it it is now more than 60 years since the 2nd world war in europe ended this e mail is being sent as a memorial chain in memory of the 6 million jews 20 million russians 10 million christians and 1 900 catholic priests who were murdered massacred raped starved burned and humiliated while german and russian people looked the other way now more than ever with iran among others claiming the holocaust to be a myth it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets this e mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world reading it over again i see a few other problems in this email it is prejudiced in a further way while german and russian people looked the other way it wasn t only germans and russians who looked the other way as the holocaust and other acts of extreme violence and genocide took place in the course of the war frenchmen dutchmen belgians italians hungarians romanians etc everyone on the continent pretty much also looked the other way some even argue that the americans and british looked the other way as the holocaust took place thus the writer betrays a prejudice against germans and russians by mentioning only them in particular there were people looking the other way i e trying to survive and avoid conflict wherever nazi fascist and soviet regimes existed also there is much too much one sided blame here too much posturing in a holier than thou manner that is i wonder if the writer of this email would have behaved any differently in the same context so then is the writer meaning to suggest that there is something in the nature of germans and russians that made them look the other way something that the writer might not be susceptible to had s he had to survive under the extreme conditions as either a citizen of nazi germany or the ussr or as the citizen of a country under nazi fascist or soviet occupaiton another issue it wasn t 20 million russians who died but 20 million soviet citizens who died of whom 10 11 million alone where citizens of ukraine and it is impossible to know how many among them were ethnic ukrainians or russians that figure of 20 million dead includes slavs balts and central asians as well as siberians germans jews and others all of whom lived in the ussr at the time it is just more lazy thinking to use the labels soviet and russian interchangeably even if it is customary and common sense and how everyone talked about the ussr during the cold war many if not most members of non russian diasporas whose homelands were part of the ussr never spoke in such manner and frequently protested such usage in the press and academia posted by stefan at 2 00 pm no comments saturday march 10 2007 el gringo does the copa as gw makes the rounds in mexico brazil guatemala colombia and uruguay the bush administration has been eager to make the trip appear as though it has nothing to do with hugo chavez i e with the awakening from neoliberal torpor that is ongoing in latin america i know you want to make this trip about chavez snow i e tony snow the current whitehouse spokesperson told reporters aboard air force one as it flew to uruguay it s not here for article the article will come down from yahoo soon of course this is a lie a smoke screen chavez himself summed up the purpose of bush s trip well stating at an anti imperialist rally in buenos aires agentina i believe the chief objective of the bush trip is to try to scrub clean the face of the empire in latin america but it s too late bush s trip has everything to do with chavez and the movement against the washington consensus that is gaining force in latin america of which chavez is a leading figure in tandem to bush s latin american visit the us press and bush administration spokepeople have also posed as though the adminsitration is holier than thou vis a vis chavez s penchant for calling bush names i e devil gringo etc though bush may not have engaged in any direct name calling of chavez his administration spokespeople have in the past called him names dictator their new tact of calling chavez the bolivarian gentleman as in the quote below is a phony attempt to assume a holier than thou position in this labeling game calling chavez the bolivarian gentleman thomas shannon assistant secretary of state for western hemispheric affairs said he s made it clear that he doesn t see the value of any engagement with the united states returning from a trip last month to brazil and argentina undersecretary of state nicholas burns said we don t obsess about hugo chavez one can criticize chavez for using such colorful language for how it plays into this game of who seems the crazed versus gentlemanly stateman but realities on the ground under chavez in venezuela the real difference his government is making in the lives of the poor and lower middle classes versus the true history of american intervention in latin america makes everything clear of course this does not clear up the problem since few people in mass society actually study any real history and thus for them the media gets to paint the portrait not to mean however that i am personally opposed to chavez s rhetoric finally if the us is not obsessing about chavez i e about what he and his allies are successfully accomplishing today in latin america and against the washington consensus why then did bush feel the need to state such things as the following i don t think america gets enough credit for trying to help improve people s lives and so my trip is to explain as clearly as i can that our nation is generous and compassionate posted by stefan at 2 55 am no comments labels 21st century leftism bush chavez latin america neoliberalism washington consensus thursday march 08 2007 on horowitz s attack on his imagined left wing academy return of the campus witch hunts david horowitz and the thought police to begin with the most crucial to my mind excerpt from the article despite his alleged devotion to neutrality in the curriculum horowitz has yet to call on any business school to hire a labor leader or the economics department to hire enough marxist economists to balance out the curriculum i don t see him calling for critics of the petroleum industry to be welcomed in ut s big oil geology department by dana cloud david horowitz is a self appointed general of the right wing thought police in 2006 he published the professors the 101 most dangerous academics in america in it he named me and 100 other professors as threats to national security akin to terrorists this spring he is coming out with the next salvo in the war over the academy a book called indoctrination u in which he has taken special aim at university of texas ut where i teach among others on february 17 the daily texan student newspaper published his op ed claiming that there are two universities of texas one a world class institution and another where faculty regard themselves as activists not scholars and their curriculum is designed not to teach students how to conduct a disinterested inquiry but to convert them to a sectarian ideology and recruit them to its causes students are being given an indoctrination not an education he claims and as examples he points to the center for women s and gender studies the communication studies department and the division of rhetoric and writing i am affiliated with all of these programs and a clear target in his new book but the texan would not print my rebuttal many of my colleagues say that we ought not take horowitz s bait among scholars and activists he is regarded as something of a kook and a windbag the american association of university professors aaup has argued the weak line that disciplining faculty for supposed transgressions against academic freedom should be left up to university administrators not politicians then there are the organizations and professors who have devoted themselves to refuting horowitz s facts about their publications and activism i believe this also is a wrong approach because his facts about faculty syllabi and political affiliations are not in question it is urgent that we challenge horowitz politically horowitz s theatrics and demagoguery mask a very serious agenda to discredit harass and censor critical intellectuals and activists on our campuses he knows that universities have historically been spaces of critical thinking and dissent students and professors have been organizing against the war and against the greed and hypocrisy of the right and he would like nothing more than to hound us from our jobs contrary to his image as disaffected crank horowitz has been increasingly successful in state legislatures across the u s for example he has proposed the misnamed academic bill of rights which purports to call for balance and openness in the college curriculum but which in fact would give legislators and university administrations a warrant to police faculty on the basis of ideological neutrality los angeles times columnist rosa brooks explains that the academic bill of rights is merely a smokescreen for the mccarthyite agenda beneath the lofty rhetoric he has national influence as well for example rep john boehner the leader of the republicans in the house wrote last year that as former head of the education and the workforce committee he told horowitz the committee shared his concern about bias in colleges secretary of education margaret spellings a protégé of karl rove and architect of george bush s no child left behind act recently appointed a commission on higher education to oversee u s universities alan jones writing in inside higher ed reports horowitz with assistance from karl rove and the former house majority whip tom delay has briefed republican members of congress on his academic bill of rights campaign and delay has even distributed copies of horowitz s political primer 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