Holocaust Denial?

I have recently learned that some schools are considering dropping lessons on the Holocaust, to avoid upsetting Muslim students, as some Muslims deny the Holocaust happened. Apparently there is also resistance to teaching about the Crusades, as lessons can contradict what is taught in some mosques.

How politically correct is this country trying to become? And who are we most concerned about upsetting? It would seem that it is not acceptable to offend Muslims, but but it is acceptable to offend Jewish people. I admit that alarm bells are ringing in my head. Surely history lessons should be a place where children have access to all subjects, regardless of how how controversial they are. Do we want our children to grow up ignorant of what has happened in our world? How will we avoid these same atrocities in the future if tomorrow’s leaders are not even aware of our mistakes in the past?

What next? Will we stop teaching about the Second World War completely, just in case there are some children with Nazi tendencies in our classrooms? What about the slave trade? Teach it one way and we could offend some black people, teach it another and we could offend some white people. Better not teach about the misdeeds of various Kings and Queens over the centuries - there might be some aggrieved royalists out there! Oh dear! Obviously the solution, then, is to stop teaching it at all. Let us all become ignorant fools, with no opinions on anything; then we can’t offend anybody. Why don’t we just go the whole way and burn all history books?

Please. *tuts*

Do we want to turn into a country where all our children learn about is propaganda, as is the case in some countries I could name? Children must learn about many different things, and learn to develop their own views, and learn how to defend themselves properly, with reasoned arguments. This country will fast slip down the drain if we just pretend that the more unpallatable moments in history never happened.