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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Islamic-education-in-US-hostile-to-Israel-distorts-conflict-448516

Islamic Education in U.S. Hostile to Israel

(Jerusalem Post) Danielle Ziri - Islamic education curricula in the U.S. project hostility toward Israel and distort the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE). "When discussed at all, Israel is presented by the curricula as a usurper and referred to on occasion as Palestine. There is no discussion of peaceful solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the report states. In one curriculum, published in Saudi Arabia for use in the U.S., "the West is associated with a variety of social ills and immorality. Islam and Muslims are portrayed as being under constant threat and thus forced to fight, through jihad."

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