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Education’s textbooks have been reformed

Saudi representatives and their agents constantly claim that the ministry of education’s textbooks have been reformed. As our July 2008 report demonstrates, this is mendacious: The culture of hatred against the non-Wahhabi is alive and well in the Saudi government’s Islamic studies textbooks. These textbooks are required for all Saudi pubic schools and dominate the Saudi curriculum in the upper grades. The ministry posts these texts in full on its website and the government’s Wahhabi establishment ships them free to mosques and Muslim schools and libraries throughout the world. According to Saudi human-rights expert Ali Al Ahmed, president of the Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs: “This could be a watershed for Saudi education. Prince Faisal is known to be effective and have the king’s trust. He is someone capable of overhauling the curriculum.” This is not to say that Saudi Arabia is moving toward a separation of mosque and state. That would require, for example, not merely a shift in personnel of the religious police, whose raison d’etre is to coerce religious observance, but its complete abolition. Nor is there any sign of a greater political opening, much less a democratic revolution. Shiites lost ground in the now expanded Consultative Council. And, only in Saudi Arabia could replacing officials with royal family members be celebrated as reform. Nevertheless, these changes bring hope for the modernizing of Saudi education. Such decisive action by the monarch, who financially underwrites and politically empowers those who’ve shaped Saudi culture, has been long overdue. Whether cultural change will finally now come to the Kingdom bears close watching.

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