In the new textbook, the Crusades are now called insulting to Muslims, the Sun King Louis 14th is labeled imperialist and Napoleon is mocked as the Colonel Gaddafi of his day. The star of the new school books is Mali’s previously little-known King Kankou Musa who ruled over the West African country in the 13th century.
King Kankou Musa
Parents and teachers across France are up in arms over new textbooks which carry accounts of French history revised to avoid insulting ethnic minority pupils. They say common sense has been sacrificed to political correctness in French schools.
ÂNatives of France now fear their identity will soon disappear along with their history.
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