{"id":57932,"date":"2012-10-23T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=57932"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:11:58","slug":"turkish-schoolbooks-denounce-darwin-einstein-as-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/10\/23\/turkish-schoolbooks-denounce-darwin-einstein-as-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish schoolbooks denounce Darwin, Einstein as ‘Jews’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkish schoolbooks denounce Darwin, Einstein as ‘Jews’<\/p>\n

By JPOST.COM STAFF<\/p>\n

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Turkish schoolchildren in Istanbul received a series of books denouncing scientific figures, including one denying the theory of evolution and describing Charles Darwin as a big-nosed Jew, the Financial Times reported Friday.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, the books were distributed last week to hundreds of students in the Maltepe district of Turkey’s capital after the government-affiliated local education authority approved their content.<\/p>\n

The book on Darwin reportedly states that the evolutionary biologist \u201cHad two problems: First he was a Jew; second, he hated his prominent forehead, big nose and misshapen teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darwin was not Jewish.<\/p>\n

A separate book on Albert Einstein reportedly describes the physicist as \u201cfilthy and slovenly\u201d and accuses him of eating soap. \u201cThe sad part is during that time the Gestapo was putting Jews into ovens and making them into soap,\u201d the book adds.<\/p>\n

Maltepe\u2019s director of education, Faik Kaptan, told Turkey\u2019s Radikal newspaper that he was unaware the books contained anti-Semitic references, saying, \u201cIt is not possible to check all the books distributed in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n

via Jerusalem Post – Breaking News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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