We’ve been down this road before with the two-faced apartheid Saudi regime: Saudi Arabia promises to revise textbooks. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Washington (CNN) — Saudi Arabia has promised a comprehensive review of all of its educational textbooks and to remove all language promoting intolerance, the State Department’s ambassador for religious freedom said Wednesday.

Ambassador John Hanford said Saudi Arabia is already making sincere progress in cleansing its textbooks from bigoted references and added “the Saudis agreed the language is inexcusable.”

“We are very pleased with the reforms that King Abdullah and his government have been making,” Hanford said.

However, there were still some “repugnant references” in the textbooks targeted at both non-Muslims and Muslims who don’t follow the Saudi version of Islam, called Wahabism, he said.

Hanford’s comments followed a briefing for members of Congress on a list of policies the Saudis agreed to implement in the area of religious freedom.