Is so much hatred spread through textbooks?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-10-2004_pg3_2
This worldview is acquired in schools and in homes. Instead of inculcating in our children and youth a sense of inter-religious harmony, tolerance and respect, our textbooks teach contempt for others and preach holy war. According to a much-discussed SDPI report on the subject, in Pakistani textbooks the word Hindu rarely appears in a sentence without being preceded by such adjectives as “conniving” or “manipulative”. Class VIII students may be excused for believing that there is a separate world called “the Muslim world”, for their social studies book has chapters titled “Mountains of the Muslim world” and “Seas of the Muslim world”. Muhammad bin Qasim, who died over a thousand years before Pakistan was created, is declared in our textbooks to be “the first Pakistani citizen” by virtue of the fact that he was the first Arab-Muslim invader of “Hindu India”.