Ali Dashti informs us that "Swedish radio for children, a department of national Swedish radio, is devoting AN ENTIRE WEEK to indoctrinating young Swedish kids with cosy tales about Muhammad."
Here is the Swedish link, and here is Ali's translation of some of the material there:
This week you will hear the exciting story of Profet Muhammad's dramatic life in the Arabian desert in the 7th century.You will meet the first Muslims and their leader. You will also meet angels and crooks, and Muhammad's favorite camel Quaswa and her camel friends Sabah and Kasmir.
You will also learn more about Islam.
Ali Dashti asks some pointed questions:
Do you believe they do this for Hindus or Buddhists?I wonder how they intend to present this? Will they mention how the single mother Asma bint Marwan was stabbed to death in her sleep, for saying something Muhammad didn't like? Or how the Jews of Banu Qurayza were slaughtered and dumped in a ditch, their women and children sold as slaves? Or how Muhammad himself that very same night had sex with Ruyhana, who had just watched her husband get murdered by Muhammad's men?
Why are these pertinent questions? Because Muhammad is al-insan al-kamil: the perfect man. His example is the one Muslims are constantly exhorted to follow. Do they follow him even in the things Ali Dashti lists above? See here for some evidence.
Some emails to reach the Children's Radio and protest:
barn@ur.se, bokeniorat@sr.se, lovteatern@sr.se, barnwebb@sr.se, barnradion@sr.se
Some emails to the Radio station itself:
monica.orlando@sr.se, jael.waern@sr.se, jan.svensson@sr.se, agneta.ekberg@sr.se, lyssnarservice@sr.se, kristina.hagglof@sr.se
If you wish, invite them to some good, Islam-critical websites as well.
And if you want to be effective at all: be brief, and be polite. Point out the problems without being abusive in any way. Otherwise they will not listen to you.
Sad, but not surprising as we have recently read that the inculcation of Islam is taking place all over Scandinavia with the overt help of their governments. Have they become dhimmis? No, It appears that they are well on the way to becoming Muslims? Shades of Eurabia, Mullah Krakor has been successful.
This should be an object lesson for those of us in North America and the rest of the free world.
As Spencer said: Be brief and polite in your emails. Ask them whether they intend to do this with all other religions, too, and if not, on what basis do they single out a religion for propaganda like this? From the Swedish text, it looks like a single Muslim is doing the "facts check" to the script.
Invite them to have a look at some good websites with an alternative viewpoint, such as:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
http://www.secularislam.org/
They should inform their listeners about these sites, to give them an alternative viewpoint. Oh, and tell them to make an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and broadcast it to Swedish children. That would be interesting indeed.......
Muhammed Had A Camel
Would that be his wife then ?--oh no sorry that was a 9yr old girl-- the camel was his bit on the side!!!
7th Century A.D.Islam, working through the Koran, to served notice on the world:
Interesting how Islam draws the line between the levels of barbarianism.
We all see regularly scheduled beheadings of unarmed & innocent individuals by Islamic cowards.
Why don’t they also cook up & eat the guts & flesh of their human victims, right on the videos, or better yet, why not eat the human guts & flesh raw?
Muslims certainly are not winning friends with this brutality.
This is insane. They strip out religion from our lives - Christianity, that is. But freely allow in, by stealth, whitewashed lies about Islam. Absolutely insane.
Seems to me there's an almost frantic level of PR work being done by Islam in Western countries these days. They're really pumping the crap out, double time. Perhaps to try to brainwash more people over to their side, so that if there are more horrendous attacks, there won't be too much condemnation headed their way? And we'll hear the typical, "oh Islam is Peace, Moh was such a nice guy, our religion is being hijacked" BS since many will have been fooled with this marketing campaign.
Mohammed had a camel. He loved his camel. And, on cold nights, when his 9 year old wife wouldn't give him some lovin', he beat her, then went outside, and loved that camel even more.
What is the point of this? To indoctrinate children by telling them lies? Either ignore Muhammad altogether, or tell the truth to those little Swedish boys and girls who, no doubt, are not much older than Aisha, either when Muhammad first married her (when she was 6) or when Muhammad first consummated that marriage (when she was 9).
Does no one in Sweden care about this obvious propagandizing? Attempts are made all the time, all over the non-Muslim world, to lie to people about Islam. Last week it was the State Department, or some particular idiot in the State Department, trying to convince us that "Muslims" had been among the crew memembers accompanying Christopher Columbus -- perhaps on the theory of that old joke about the Italian waiter who writes, on the bill for the tourists "forse passa" -- "perhaps it will get by" -- beside a sum he hopes they will unthinkingly pay. Neither various posters, familiar with Columbus, nor Robert Spencer, at www.nro.org, let this bit of misinformation slip by, but there is a vast propaganda war going on, and only one side -- the Muslim side -- is actually in operation. Every Believer is supposed to be engaged in Da'wa. That means that every Infidel, every Unbeliever, must engage in counter-Da'wa. Do what you can. Tell people about websites. Express your skepticism, your fury. Allude to all the Muslim attacks all over the world that have nothing to do with "American foreign policy." Ask your friends if they would wish Islam upon their own civilization, their own children or grandchildren. Ask them if they have any idea what the pursuit of science (outside of weapons research) would be under Islam, or sculpture, or painting, or music, or free and skeptical inquiry into all matters? There would be nothing. For more than 1350 years, wherever Islam has gone, whatever civilization was there originally, whoever were the indegenous non-Muslims, they were left, in the long run (despite a few centuries when the non-Muslims had not yet been extinguished, and could still work within Muslim rule, and even with some Muslims) with a situation far more bleak than anything one would have believed possible.
This is not a matter of converting Muslims or spreading Christianity -- though that is one weapon in the defense arsenal. It is a matter of self-preservation, against a threat that is based on:
1) OPEC money (an accident of geology), which the recipients of that money did nothing to deserve, and which pays for mosques, madrasas, bribery of diplomats, journalists, and academics, the purchase of stock in major media companies, and so on.
2) the failure of the Western world to understand the central tenets of Islam, or to pay attention to the history of Muslim treatment over 1350 years, of non-Muslims in lands subjugated by Muslims -- an understanding which would have prevented the wholesale migration of Muslims into that West, where most will work, as their belief-system tells them they must, for the islamization of the lands they now live in and regard as belonging to them, not to the indigenous non-Muslims.
3) technology -- audiocassettes, videocassettes, Al Jazeera, that lessen the room for "moderate" (i.e. incompletely informed, incompletely whipped-up) Muslims to exist, immune to the texts which, by the way, are all on the side of Bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi, and company. The fact that some Muslims are "moderate" is only a tribute to their ignorance of, or their deliberately ignoring, the real teachings of Islam. But technology means that the teachings are harder and harder to ignore. And there is never certainty that the man who is "moderate" today cannot be transformed, overnight, even by some event in his own life that causes him to look for scapegoats -- and the ready scapegoat for everything is the Infidel.
We should construct our own stories which take a critical perspective on the so-called "religion of peace" and distribute these to counteract the equally outrageous lies that are being told to young children. I would suggest the following.
"Allah and his friends wanted to be pilots. So they borrowed a plane from some new friends that they met. Sadly, several of their new friends ended up with their throats slit when Allah and his friends got angry because their new friends wouldn't share their plane. Allah got so angry that he and his friends decided to kill a few thousand other people who were working in two very tall buildings in the city of light. The people who lived in the city of light were sad that Allah and his friends murdered their friends and family. But,they promised that Allah would be hunted and thrown from the earth so that he would never harm anyone again."
Nice story, Buck.
Personally, I'm wont to borrow some of JRR Tolkien's powerful imagery....
In the Land of Mordor (Saudi)- bleak, dark, dry, evil where nary a blade of grass grew or chirping of birds reached - stood Barad-dur (Mecca), enveloped in perpetual darkness. Inside reigned Sauron (Mohd.), the Lord of the Rings - whose deep, dark brow was brooding, conspiring some new evil, spinning ever widening intrigue, sowing discord, uprooting homes, furthering chaos....
Sauron was the sworn enemy of all that was good in the world, and above all he hated Elvenkind - the firstborn (these would be the Jews I reckon). He hated the race of Men (Christians?) and deeply desired the downfall of Minas Tirith (New York City), the capital of Gondor (the USA) - the strongest and proudest of all human kingdoms. He laid low the human kingdomsa of Harad (Europe?) and Rhun (Central Asia) where he levied tribute and took slaves.
Sauron's one goal was to reattain the One Ring (WMD?) and thereby bring about complete and total world domination:
"
One Ring to rule them all;
One Ring to find them;
One Ring to bring them all;
into darkness, bind them!
"
Whew! Anyone notice any nicer parallels? lemme know!
Muslim countries:
Knowingly & willingly breed, harbor, & finance, the extremism & hate in Islamic teachings of intolerance toward non-Muslims. Jihad is carried everyday by your robotic killers.
Rest assured, your countries will be held fully responsible for the actions of these killers. In the event, a Muslim, carrying out Jihad, triggers a nuclear or chemical attack in the Western world, this gross misdeed will be promptly responded to, by the West. Thousands of nuclear weapons are stationed across Earth, any of which will be launched within minutes, to exterminate your Muslim countries.
It is recommended, all Muslim governments must capture & destroy your brainwashed killers, wherever they may be hiding, or face the ultimate price if one of these killers sets off a nuclear or chemical attack.
"...presents articles and commentaries that debunk much of the Quran and charge that Islam's founder, Muhammad, was a rapist, pedophile, mass murderer and an "evil man." "
The clash of moral standards is indeed the issue.
Muslims know that Muhammad did these things.
Aware non-Muhammadens know these things too.
Where is the problem?
Amongst the ignorant and "politically correct".
For them, it is impossible that one billion souls follow the teachings of a madman.
The idea of "one billion souls" believing something MUST make the belief right.
Well, if I was a parent of a child being exposed to such Islamic propaganda, I'd make sure I countered the crap with the truth. I'd have no problem with saying that this "prophet" was a horrible person who did many awful things. It might be confusing, depending on the age of the child, but there's no way I'd allow my child's mind to be polluted by this PeeCee manure.
Thankfully mine were teens when we watched the only thing that Islam is capable of: the destruction and mass murder of 9/11. It must have been difficult for parents of much younger children. How could you explain that event without giving your child nightmares, and at the same time, without sanitizing Islam. I had no qualms about saying the perps were Muslim terrorists, sick and evil people who were doing what their religion told them to. I was not going to lie for Islam, or protect it.
Indeed. I'm new on the site, but here's my letter:
To whom it may concern,
Forgive my lack of Swedish!!
As a father and a citizen of a Western nation, New Zealand, which like Sweden, encourages personal feedoms, I was disturbed to read that your station is broadcasting sanitised histories of Islam to children. I feel I must ask whether you intend to provide similar histories for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Judaism, to name a few. To do otherwise would surely be to actively promote a single religious ethos upon children - which given your power as a broadcaster and their age would be unacceptable propoganda.
I also wonder whether you will mention that most Islamic countries enforce their religion through brutality, surveillance, and routinely deny their citizens basic rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly. Given the rights that women enjoy in Sweden, would it not also be prudent to mention the sexual apartheid ubiquitous in the Islamic world, which is often justified by Mohamed's treatment of women, including his marriage, aged 53, to an 8-year old girl?
The integrity and impartiality of the media in Western societies is a precious and vital cornerstone of our rights and freedoms. If you are broadcasting to children, impartiality becomes even more vital. I hope you will reconsider your programming.
Yours Faithfully,
While the radio program is extolling Islam, can you please tell the kids that Sikhism is not the same as Islam ?
Please tell them that Sikhs wear turbans but they are not muslims.
What is next... a kids pop-up book called "Mohammad sexually assualts 9 year old Aisha"
To voletti
I agree with you..the main theme of the lord of the rings is basically analogous with the struggle against all totalitarian ideologies...i.e. islamism, fascism and communism. Alot of scholars beleive Tolkeins horrific expereinces in the trenches of the first world war and his living through the second did (consciously or not) influence the themes of the LOTR. The story does after all rely heavily on the concept of the good west (gondor and rohan) versus the evil east (mordor). I think this similarity is no coincidence. Sauron could easily be Hitler, Stalin or Bin Laden. The lord of the rings is a story of trimuph against tyrrany. The guy who played Gimli said that in his opinion the story states a fundamental truth...IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR CIVILISATION YOU WILL LOOSE IT. Frodo was the ring bearer who saved the world. The question we should be asking ourselves today is who is the ring bearer to save the west now?