Egypt strikes Islamic texts from schools, angering Salafists

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OP - June 04, 2015, 09:54 AM

The decision of Egypt’s Ministry of Education to remove some content from primary and secondary school curricula has sparked wide controversy in the country.

While the state views the decision — which will omit some religious texts and passages on historical Islamic figures — as a way to counter radical ideologies and fight extremism, the Salafist movements have deemed it a war on Islam.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb announced the decision in a press statement following a meeting he headed with the Curriculum Development Committee on April 11. He said, “We will not allow any academic textbooks that would instill myths and superstition in the minds of students.”

The Curriculum Development Committee was formed March 4 to review curricula and remove any outdated texts that incite violence.

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Reply #1 - June 04, 2015, 10:50 AM

Why Im I not suprised.This is to target western audience by taking away ideas that are primarily within the salafist camp, and some of it may not even be that. They say that it includes Muslim Brotherhood ideas, but I doubt that, as the goverment shares those ideas too.When the justice minister supports stoning,limbchopping and beheading for apostasy in theory, how is that anything new? This is just meat for western audience. Teach that apostates can leave Islam and maybe thats a start(but that can be found in al Azhar already).Infact, I even read of an Egyptian woman saying that she was taught that the penalty for apostasy was death when she was in 9th grade.
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Reply #2 - June 07, 2015, 10:44 PM

Anything that pisses off salafists is probably a sign you're doing something right.

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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
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