PARIS, France: Riyadh said it is on track to clean up all hints of hatred of others and intolerance in Saudi textbooks. These books are also used in Saudi-funded schools in the West.

Saleh Al-Shayeh, executive director of programs at the Ministry of Education after the 7th annual meeting of the directors of overseas Saudi schools and academies said: "The kingdom has introduced many amendments in the religious programs that are taught in Saudi schools abroad. All these programs will be completely overhauled over the next three years."

The textbooks used in Saudi schools in countries like the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and Turkey, incite to hatred of Christians, Jews and followers of other religions, especially Shiites.

Saudi Arabia pressed by Washington since September 2001 to clean its programs, claimed that, in the last few years, it has undertaken measures to reform education and that the purge would continue even if the regime cannot afford to alienate conservatives.

A previous promise made in 2006 in Riyadh to the State Department to purge the school curricula "from all intolerant passages" in the next two years, did not happen, according to the American press.

But this time it seems that purging of hatred and its supporters has begun.