Saudi Arabia rejects western pressures to change the curricula
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 1/11/2002

The Saudi minister of education Muhammad Ahmad al-Rasheed has denied that Saudi Arabia is determinant to make any changes on its educational curricula in response to western calls.

In press statements issued by the Saudi daily al-Watan, al-Rasheed said that "our educational curricula are built on certain basics according to our needs and the needs of our society and the principles of our educational policies." He added:" No body has the right to interfere in our issues nor to instruct us on what we should we do." Al-Rasheed was replying to a question on whether Saudi Arabia will respond to the western pressures on changing the educational curricula in Saudi Arabia.

Simultaneously, the Saudi religious establishment had angrily responded to western statements that said that the educational curricula in Saudi Arabia feeds extremism and terrorism and need to be amended.

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