Overview

• The study reviewed more than 80 government-approved textbooks across Islamic education, history, social sciences, English and Urdu.
• Examples cited include a 6th-grade text alleging Jewish conspiracies against the Prophet Muhammad and a 5th-grade passage accusing Jews of plotting against Jesus and causing his mother to suffer.
• Comparative religion sections exclude Judaism, the Holocaust is omitted, and a civics textbook praises Hitler for restoring German pride without noting Nazi crimes.
• Recent events are framed with Israel cast as solely responsible for the Gaza war and humanitarian crisis, with no mention of Hamas’s role in the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
• Islamic education materials depict jihad as a physical or armed duty, and some texts label India an “enemy country” while portraying Hinduism negatively.