Wednesday February 25, 2004 4:16 AM
By MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press Writer
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The American Embassy said Tuesday it is distributing books on U.S. history to Islamic schools to counter rising anti-American attitudes in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population.
``(Islamic schools) have very few books and almost none on the United States,'' said embassy spokesman Stanley Harsha. ``They get all their information from television, movies and rumors. We want to give them a real and deeper understanding of American democracy, pluralism and the way the economy works.''
The embassy translated the five-book ``American Online Series'' - with volumes on American history, economics, literature, politics and geography - into Indonesian and plans to distribute them to some 1,000 Islamic boarding schools.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3786517,00.htmlThink it'll have the Harken Story in there?
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