Several school books in Canada depict a religious map of Islam occupying a great part of Greece. This particular map is used in every school except for Greek- Canadian schools.
This has raised questions within the Greek-Canadian community, which is upset that students are being taught that much of Greece has a large Muslim population and is affronted at what it believes distorts the country’s history and the 400-year Ottoman Occupation that enslaved Greeks before they revolted almost 200 years ago to regain their lands.
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