I suspect heric refers to:

This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)

I don't see anything in the article that's really surprising, hence little need for discussion.

I did find another article interesting, that popped up in the search for the Post bit. Not quite as fresh as the above, but perhaps of interest. My own analysis is not finished, but:

Pew Forum 04 APR 2006

seemed to me unusual in recent rhetoric. Discussion? Comment?

John