British schools and the Holocaust

While I agree with Tim Rutten’s thoughts [about the lack of media coverage on threats against Salman Rushdie] (“Where Is the West’s Outcry?,” June 23), letter writer Gina Nahai needs to check her facts before spewing forth more incorrect information (Letters, June 30).

It is absolutely untrue that British schools decided to not mention the Holocaust in their textbooks or curriculum. One history department in northern U.K. stopped teaching about the Holocaust because it wished to avoid confronting anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among Muslim pupils.

Unfortunately, the Internet has enabled everyone to forward information to the entire world -- a great deal of it being taken out of context or entirely incorrect. It would behoove Nahai, and everyone else, to check political e-mails and articles forwarded by the uninformed.

ANN RADOW

Woodland Hills