Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[brainlessone]

well I dont think its that bad everywhere, but certainly so in the madrassahs and in Saudi Arabia and the west Bank and from CNBC likely Jordan. I have no idea what is taught in Dubai or the UAE. Interestingly, the upper class kids all go to switzerland or Eton, so it is only the stay at homes which get this stuff.

And they spend much more time on Africa and the Ottoman Empire thatn they do on France or America or Greece, at least now . And they get told over and over again about Ibn Battuta a moslem who supposedly traveled the world in 1325 who went from egypt to spain and to mecca. They compare him to a chinese who traveled around about 5 times further around 200 BC. This name is mentioned at least ten times in the book over and over so the kid make fun of the name when they see it again. Whenever Europeans are mentioned, they did bad things

the phoencians are never mentioned and vasco degama is not mentioneda



I beleive, not meaning to start a baseless rumor, that some of the book publishers are owned by the UAE and Saudis. I think Macmillan or Houghton Mifflin. I remember from about 5 years ago there was some spin out from a division and it was bought by a group. I do not know how to track ownership.