Just when I thought that pandering and political correctness had hit its zenith when both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton kissed Al Sharpton’s ring last week at the National Action Network convention in New York, predictable news from jolly old England eclipses their disgrace.

British schools are now dropping the Holocaust and Crusades from the history curriculum to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a government-backed study recently concluded. According to the report, factual teaching of such topics would have “challenged what was taught in some local mosques.”

This is the same England whose primary schools change the name of the kids’ fable, “The Three Little Pigs” to the “Three Little Puppies” so as not pique the Muslim offense at pork.

The study, which was funded by the Department for Education and Skills (GCSE), probed the “emotive and controversial” history teaching in both primary and secondary schools.

What’s next? Will British schools cease to teach Newton’s laws because someone takes offense at apples?

The teaching of history requires nuance and point of view. The consequences of events always affect the winners and losers differently. What is one group’s triumph is another’s tragedy. The best history teachers convey the experiences of both in the curriculum.

“In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship,” the government report continued.

To deny the existence of history by deliberate exclusion for any reason is silly. But to do so because of religious objection is dangerous and foolhardy, especially when pandering to a faith where in much of the world the state is the instrument of god – and one of those states – Iran – is about to perfect nuclear weapons.

Political correctness all too quickly morphs into practical suicide, no matter what the continent. Right here at home nothing underscores such deadly dopiness than Bill Clinton’s justice department during the years when Osama Bin Laden gained his murderous momentum. Clinton instituted a policy shift that prohibited US law enforcement and intelligence agencies from sharing information. The reasoning behind the change was pure political correctness. Exchanged computer checks on those stopped for traffic violations might also turn up immigration violations. And nothing was more sacred for the Clintons than protecting the cow of illegal immigration.

And such was the exact policy that allowed Muhammad Ata and three of the other 9/11 hijackers to slip through law enforcement’s hands long before September 11, 2001. Had Clinton not knelt at the altar of political correctness, Ata et al would have been apprehended far from Boston and history.