In Saudi Arabia's schools, the ABC's of hatred.

• Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
• Position: Opinion - Brief Article

Surely the most chilling aspect of May's terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia against foreigners at the Khobar oil center was that Saudi militants tried to kill or capture only the non-Muslims, and let Muslims and Arabs go. Now where would the terrorists have learned such intolerance and discrimination? Answer: in the Saudi public school system and religious curriculum, according to what some courageous Saudi liberals are saying in their own press. "Have we helped create these monsters?" asks writer Raid Ousti in the Saudi English-language daily Arab News. "Our education system, which does not stress tolerance of other faiths ... is one thing that...