The Islamic Saudi Academy has made a small effort to clean up some of their textbooks that have been criticized over the years for their anti non-Muslim content but enough intolerance still remains which will continue to cause criticism.
I wonder why they even bothered.
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Va. Islamic School Changes Texts, May Still Face Criticism
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