Ontario’s high school curriculum downplays jihad, ignores history of terror

The official Ontario secondary school curriculum encourages educators to teach jihad as a “spiritual struggle,” omitting the global terrorism carried out in its name.

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By Melanie Bennet

The official Ontario secondary school curriculum encourages educators to teach jihad as a “spiritual struggle,” omitting the global terrorism carried out in its name, and instructs teachers to examine “misconceptions about jihad” and “media portrayals of jihad.”