Why fighting antiscience is important

In the UK, some schools are dropping teaching about the Holocaust, for fear that it might offend Muslim students.

From BA:

No, I am not kidding.

This is precisely why we must not waver, must not slow, and must not lower our gaze. The forces of antiscience, antithought, antirationalism… they lurk around every corner, hide in every dark spot. But now they walk around in the daylight, and have so slowly and perniciously built themselves up in our society that we hardly notice.

They are also curtailing teaching of the Crusades, for the same reason. What are they going to come up with next? Yeah, 9/11 didn't happen!