Three US Congressman ask Saudis to delete religious bigotry from text books

Fox News:

Three U.S. lawmakers appealed to the Saudi government Wednesday to stop using religious textbooks that they say promote hatred and religious intolerance.

The appeal from the three Democrats came on the eve of President Obama's much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world during a five-day journey to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in an attempt to smooth over bumpy relations between the U.S. and Arab countries. Obama met Wednesday afternoon with Saudi King Abdullah.

Reps. Anthony Weiner and Joseph Crowley of New York and Shelley Berkley of Nevada held a news conference to call on the Saudi government to stop planting what they said were seeds of hate in Saudi children through religious textbooks that teach controversial lessons, such as the hour of judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.

"This is not some rogue document," Weiner said. "This is the position of the Saudi government. ... If we're going to solve the generational conflicts, it's important not to hate one another."

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Good for them. I have repeatedly made the point that the war being waged against us is one based on religious and ethnic bigotry. For the Saudis to be teaching bigotry suggest they are not the ally we have supported in the past. The Saudis have also felt the sting of this bigotry from al Qaeda and other radical Muslims with weird religious beliefs.