Grade 6 textbook seized, banned on charges of racism

Close on the heels of the cartoon controversy raging across the Muslim world, it is the turn of a sixth-grade social studies textbook to ruffle Muslim sentiments by teaching lessons that allegedly “smell of racism.” Over 100 copies of World Cultures were confiscated from an American school in Abu Dhabi by the Ministry of Education for allegedly presenting Islam and the Muslim countries in a negative light. Read the story in the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates).