Vice president defends Islam textbooks
20 May 2015, 5:29 PM
Criticism of Islam textbooks from a Western perspective is “inappropriate for the education system of a 100 percent Muslim nation,” Vice President Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed said yesterday.
Jameel declared that Islamic sharia and history will be taught in Maldivian schools.
The vice president’s remarks comes after human rights NGO Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN) published a report saying textbooks used to teach Islam promote anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and glorify jihad or war.
The report said only the textbooks made for grade one, two and three, introduced this year, are free from xenophobic narratives.
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