Anorak Nation: Discussion: Re: Lies that change radio history - just to prove the point here is just such an example

Gents,

I, too, received this e-mail from another source a week or two ago. I, too, reacted indignantly about the message...

My mother went through such horrific experiences in a Nazi concentration camp in Bavaria, that over 60 years down the line, she still cannot talk about her time. Her crime? Being Polish.

Totally outraged by the contents of the e-mail, I wanted to learn more on the story, googling "Holocaust Muslim curriculum". The first few items Google lists are dated early April 2007 - Daily Mail, Timesonline, BBC.

Then there is an item headed "Boycott Watch - UK Holocaust Curriculum Removal Emails are false". I read that article and subsequent Googling adding in "hoax" to the search keywords confirms the position, one from the BBC dated 4 Feb 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7226778.stm confirms the Government's reaction to try to stop the "myth spread by the e-mail",

So here is a prime example of how material can be circulated through the net and elsewhere - people get whipped up into a frenzy (including myself) - and for nothing. Looking at the original postings by the Daily Mail, Timesonline and BBC, NONE of those organisations saw fit to go to the Department for Education to do the basics of journalism - CHECK THE FACTS!

Since 9/11 such has been the indignation against the acts perpetrated by the terrorists on that day and subsequently that it's pretty easy to wind up people with more "anti Muslim" feeling. Scary, eh?