Another Inconvenient Truth?

So I got the famous email that has been circulating since the beginning of April. I mean the one about the Holocaust being removed from history curriculum in schools, in the UK. The supposed intent was not to offend Muslim students. Having just finished a book on urban legends, I jumped on the case and wrote back to my friend who sent me the email: "This is a hoax, no such thing, no civil authority would dare deny the Holocaust," I wrote. Plus, as a Jew who has grown up in a predominantly Islamic culture, I knew first hand that these claims could not be generalized to the larger Muslim population.

Proud to have squelched a rumor, I went on about my business for a while. When I wanted to write about the incident, I did a bit of digging around. Only then I realized that there was actually one school in Northern UK that did stop teaching about the Holocaust because it didn't want to create a riff among its students. Some teachers felt ill-equipped to handle the topic...

I'm sorry but since when did history became a matter of convenience? If more teachers explained how the Holocaust came about and taught their students how to recognize signs of social manipulation, fewer people would be typecasted or attacked. And when I say people, I mean everyone--regardless of religious background.