Saturday December 25, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Jordan has established an official committee of inquiry into a private school.

What did this private school do? Their curriculum includes an English textbook and in the English textbook there is a chapter about the Holocaust that includes several quotations from The Diary of Anne Frank.

How obtuse.

The committee is looking into other schools, checking to see if they, too, may be violating Jordanian law by teaching Anne Frank. According to Jordanian law all curriculum must be approved - and Anne Frank is not approved.

Here is the problem.

We know that Jordan is not a democracy. We assumed that it was an enlightened dictatorship. We assumed that the monarchy was liberalizing ideas and education while still holding a firm grasp on government and leadership.

We were wrong.

I personally have purchased several editions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Jordan.

Forbidding the study of Holocaust and banning Anne Frank is just a mistake. It is self destructive for a government to try to silence the voice of a little child. Read her diary and you will understand.

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