Textbooks for high school students in Saudi Arabia promote hatred against Jews, Christians, women, homosexual men and other Muslim sects despite repeated promises to return the country to a more moderate form of Islam, according to a report released Tuesday. [...]
Another example cited reads: "The hour will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, so that the Muslims kill them, until the Jew hides behind rock and tree, so the rock or the tree says: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of God, this Jew is behind me, so kill him.'"
A third passage suggests that "beating [women] is permitted when necessary." [...]
While the report notes some improvements, "much of the incitement evident in today's textbooks is still alarmingly similar to what was included in the kingdom's curriculum around the time of the 9/11 attacks." [...]
In October 2017, Saudi Arabia's King Salman decreed the government would monitor interpretations of Prophet Muhammad's teachings to prevent them being used to justify violence or terrorism.
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