Monday, September 24, 2012

Teaching those Arabs some democracy

""The aim of the program is to help contribute to the development of democracy in the visitors' homelands."
Young Arab men and women with an interest in promoting democracy in their homelands are spending a month as guests of the German parliament in Berlin.

For the first time in its history the Bundestag is hosting a group of young people from the Arab world for a comprehensive four-week scholarship program aimed at giving them an insight into the German federal parliamentary system.
In their home countries these young men and women are engaged as journalists, doctors, librarians, or teachers in schools, universities and foundations. All of them have an active interest in politics.
They were greeted at the start of their visit by the Bundestag's President Norbert Lammert. The aim of the program is to help contribute to the development of democracy in the visitors' homelands."  I wonder if those Arabs will be presented with lectures about German democratic management of concentration camps and the execution of mass killings. (thanks Daniel)