Why? Because the book was called "Friends Forever," and thus seemed to suggest that Muslims should become friends to Jews. From the Khaleej Times, with thanks to Teri:
DUBAI — Education authorities here have promised to review a book taught in an international private school that features a photograph of two Jewish children sporting plaited hair and yarmulke.Dr Obaid Butti Al Mohiri, the Director of Curriculums Centre at the Ministry of Education, said he would order the withdrawal of the book for primary Class I of the Dubai International School if the complaints raised were found genuine.
Several teachers of the school telephoned Khaleej Times, complaining against the picture, captioned ‘We play together; we stick together’, featured in the book Friends Forever. The teachers said that of all the pictures in the book, the students reacted sharply to only this picture.
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk." — Qur'an 5:51
Presumably the graduates of Dubai International School will be applying to college. With this as an indication of the kind of education and upbringing they will have deliberately received, it makes little sense to make Western colleges and universities available to them. It does make sense for the presidents of such universties and colleges, singly or together, to express their belief that such an act will make it far more difficult to admit students of a school that apparently is doing its bit to encourage -- by censoring the mildest of texts that attempts, through a picture or two, to discourage -- hatred of at least some Infidels.
It might help concentrate minds in Dubai. Or in similiar schools such as the American School of Kuwait. And if such texts are kept out? Or if there is evidence of brainwashing in hatred? Sorry -- such students should not be admitted to Western schools, anymore than one would admit known products, in 1941 or 1943 or 1945, or in 2005, for that matter, from schools that preach, no matter how fleetingly, the attitudes encouraged by the Nazis.
Muslims are free to choose what they wish to teach. And we non-Muslims are free not to permit them to enjoy our advanced schools, colleges, and universities. Let them be condemned to the solitary confinement of the Qur'an-Hadith-Sira based societies that make them, to quote one executive at Al Jazeera, confidently explaining his plans for his own children, "an Arab nightmare" which they will escape for "the American dream." Not so fast, any of you. Not in America, not in Europe. Stick to Bir Zeit, al Azhar, the University of Damascus, all the splendors of higher education in the Great Civilization of Saudi Arabia. That should be perfect. It will work out splendidly all round.
"But in a speech at the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism last fall, the MPAC director asserted: "We reject using Islam as an instrument of political change."
And at the last MPAC meeting part of the program for children included a 'motivational speaker' and letter writing to the President.
But this stuff had nothing to do with politics and Islam. Politics and Islam just don't mix. Do they?
Sorry, wrong thread.
But they will Hugh. IN fact the governments of America and Europe have an outreach program to Arab countries.
Sheesh, don't you listen to our Prez Islam is a religion of peace, and the war is on terrorism, Islam has nothing to do with terrorism those misquided fanatics that have corrupted wonderful peaceful Islam.
Too bad our Prez doesn't read and lacks curiousity, but he merely mirrors his base. Attention deficit disorder, five second sound bites, and singing to the choir.
When the administration wants to get the straight skinny on Islam, Bush and Co pick up the phone and call their Saudi friends, who assure them that the True Muslims like Osama and the Muslim brotherhood, are deviants. Then the Saudis have them blow up an apartment (that houses Americans, not Saudis or the Saudi family) so they can prove that they too are "victims of terrorism".
IMO Khobar Towers was a Saudi false flag operation, to prove that they too are "victims" of terrorism.
Gee,it's a small world after all,I object to a book that praises a heterosexual pedophile
that forced sex on a 9 year old girl by claiming
God told him to take her because she was a virgin.
So Kuwait will now ban the Quran,ahhhh...finally!
NO ISLAM - NO PEDOPHILIA
Hugh-
But Muslim college students don't want to come to Western Universities to learn friendship. They are here to learn nuclear physics, advanced biological sciences -especially chemistry, software programming, [disguised] weapons design, molecular medicine and anything else useful in their dogmatically-driven quest to undermine the source of the knowledge and ultimately eliminate the teachers.
In about twenty years, the 'rope' we are selling them in our high tech schools should be tightly plaited- into genetically-manipulated bio-WMD's (beware of a worldwide Muslim campaign for a 'special vaccination' ONLY for members of Islam).
And then their education will bear fruit.
And we will be left with the very bitter rind.
And no one to blame but our own professorial class. The treason of the tenured.
They condemn their children to the abyss of hatred from day one. Yes, don't let them think they could be friends with Jews. They might learn something positive. They might have fun. They might grow up tolerant. They might realize that Jewish kids are normal, everyday, average kids. No, instead, make them hate Jews, so that they blow themselves up, for a chance at Allah's whorehouse. Sick.
I'm sure the authorities would be satisfied if someone just Photoshopped some monkey heads on the Jewish kids.