Saturday, February 16, 2008

Sarkozy Stirs Anger With Holocaust Curriculum

Beginning next fall, he said, every fifth grader will have to learn the life story of one of the 11,000 French children killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Mr. Sarkozy placed blame for the wars and violence of the last century on an “absence of God” and calling the Nazi belief in a hierarchy of races “radically incompatible with Judeo-Christian monotheism.” More...

1 comment:

Pamela said...

The attempted rewriting of history by means of eliminating events that certain groups would rather not acknowledge is dangerous and fraught with tragic consequences. Why would we ever want our children not to know true history? Bravo to President Sarkozy for taking a stand and drawing the proverbial "line in the sand". He is someone with a conscience and a moral backbone, thank God!