Millions of children are being raised on prejudice and disinformation. Educated in schools that teach a skewed ideology, they are exposed to a dogma that runs counter to core beliefs shared by many other Western countries. They study from textbooks filled with a doctrine of dissent, which they learn to recite as they prepare to attend many of the better universities in the world. Extracting these children from the jaws of bias could mean the difference between world prosperity and menacing global rifts. And doing so will not be easy. But not because these children are found in the madrasas of Pakistan or the statecontrolled schools of Saudi Arabia. They are not. Rather, they live in two of the world’s great democracies—France and Germany.

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Check out the interesting article below from Foreign Policy magazine.

Menacing monkeys to be sterilized by Indian youth

This monkey madness probably sounds wacky to those who don’t live near monkey habitats, but it may well be a pragmatic solution to a vexing problem. For devout Hindus and conservationists who don’t want monkeys to be killed, for instance, sterilization might be more benign. And let’s not forget that in India, the monkey population is out of control. Monkeys ravage farmers’ crops and even attack people such as New Delhi’s deputy mayor, who fell off his balcony and died while fighting off a gang of monkeys last October.

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