U.S. Keeps Saudi Arabia’s Worst Secret -- Eli lake, Daily Beast
The most comprehensive study of Saudi textbooks ever commissioned by the U.S. government was completed at the end of 2012, but to this date the State Department has kept it from the public.
As President Obama prepares for his first visit of his second term to Saudi Arabia, pressure is mounting on the State Department to publish the most comprehensive U.S. government study of the Kingdom’s textbooks.
While the study has been finished since the end of 2012, it has nonetheless been kept from the public, according to a new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a center-right think tank in Washington.
The report, shared with The Daily Beast ahead of publication Tuesday, says, “The State Department is in possession of a uniquely exhaustive set of recent findings about incitement in Saudi Arabia's education system, findings that it has declined to release for public consumption.”
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My Comment: Here is an easy prediction .... President Obama will be traveling to Saudi Arabia this Friday .... but he is not going to talk to Saudi Arabia about their education system.
Update: Controversy stirs anew over Saudi textbooks with Obama set to visit -- CNN
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