LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles school officials have removed almost 300 translations of the Quran from school libraries after discovering that they included commentary that was considered derogatory toward Jews.
Copies of “The Meaning of the Holy Quran” were donated to the Los Angeles Unified School District from a local Muslim foundation as a goodwill gesture in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Jim Konantz, director of information technology for the district, said the books were distributed during the last week of January without the usual content review. It was unclear why the review was skipped.
Konantz received a complaint from a history teacher who determined that some of the footnotes in the book were anti-Semitic.
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