"Please revise," indicates your editor, his note scrawled in red ink atop your latest submission. So you do. You rework the major points, you tighten where needed, you revamp and polish and tweak and shift around. That is, after all, how revision is done. Not, it appears, in Saudi Arabia. That country, which supposedly revised its textbooks after a 2006 analysis found that not a few of them contained hate-filled messages about hurting Jews and other unbelievers and so forth, has released a "revision" that, unfortunately, still contains passages about hating and hurting unbelievers and so forth. The Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom released last week a report, about which Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum wrote, that found that (in Applebaum's words) "the only textbook revisions have been superficial and the most disturbing part of the books' message--that faithful Muslims should hate Jews and Christians--remains." There's much wrong with American schools, but at least they aren't actively manufacturing odium.
"The Saudi Guide to Piety," by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, July 22, 2008