Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government added a course on comparative religion to the public-school curriculum, complete with lessons on Judaism and Christianity. “We’re trying to reach the point where all the religions can find common ground,” Fadel Mahmoud, an instructor at the College of Kurdistan in Sulaymānīyah, told a reporter for McClatchy Newspapers in late 2007. “We are not interested in talking about the points of disagreement.” And so Saladin’s legacy lives on.
