Just when you thought Harry Potter was a Zionist agent comes this: "Call them the Harry Potter books on Islam," by Syed Ali Mujtaba for the Dinar Standard, July 16:
[A] New Delhi based publisher, Saniyasnain Khan has come up with the splendid idea to bring out a wide range of children’s books on Islam in English. Published under the banner Goodword Books, its popularity is slowly climbing the charts, and distributors call them the Harry Potter books on Islam.One can't help but wonder if these themes meet Saudi Arabia's children-textbook standards?[…]
Originally known as Al-Risala [Arabic for "the Message"], Goodword Books boasts a wide range of children’s products: Islamic children's books, Islamic story books, board games, puzzles, gift packs, coloring books, mazes, crosswords, word searches, Quran stories, seerah stories, and many more exciting and fun-filled ideas and activities. With a hundred distributors in 20 countries its main markets are the UK, USA, India and Pakistan.
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Some of the titles: Tell Me About the Prophet Muhammad, Tell Me About Hajj, Tell Me About the Prophet Musa, Tell Me About the Prophet Yusuf, My First Quran Storybook, and many more are very popular. His books have been translated into French, Danish, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, Malay, and Uzbek languages.
Talking to DinarStandard Saniyasnain Khan says Islam is essentially a religion of peace and harmony but there are two main reasons why some people dislike Muslims and Islam. One is violence that has been associated with it while the other is the perceived bad treatment of women by Muslims.Interesting statement. At first, when Khan says that Muslim children “get a lot of negative information about Islam” it seemed that he was indicating the negative “propaganda” surrounding Islam. But the “big need to give them the right picture so that they grow up to be peace-loving individuals” implies that the “negative information” about Islam isn’t what infidels say about it, but how Muslim adults teach it.‘I felt that there was a pressing need to educate the new generation about the real Islamic values so that they become little ambassadors of Islamic goodness and they also stimulate them to learn about Islamic ideals as they grow up,’ said Mr. Khan, whose first book “Tell Me About Hajj” has sold over 30,000 copies.
"Children get a lot of negative information about Islam. There is a big need to give them the right picture so that they grow up to be peace-loving individuals” said Mr. Khan who often contributes articles on spirituality to the Times of India.
A trustee of CPS International, a non-profit organization working towards peace and spirituality, Khan says “my endeavor is to present books for children that provide a solid foundation of Islamic moral values. The basic purpose of these books is to teach themes carefully chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources so that the children not only learn its ethical values but also embody them in their lives.”Why all the "care" when choosing themes, Mr. Khan? Why not represent them all? Surely you don't find some of those "themes" problematic?
[…]Goodword’s area of specialization is Islamic stories for children based on the Quran and Hadith. There are more than 500 plus titles to its credit. These books are completely dedicated to developing meaningful and wholesome Islamic and moral values.
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Mr. Khan, sums up his dream saying the long term vision of Goodword is to generate the love of Islam in children and young people so that when they grow up they spread its beauty around them.
"..they spread its beauty around them."
what beauty?
The two stories that follow this one this morning on the blog totally contradict the garbage being spouted in this new book series (Jihad in textbooks, and child beaten for alleged burning of page containing Quranic verses). Taqqiya at its finest - the bigger the lie, the more people would believe it. The Arab equivalent of P.T.Barnum and the egress. Jihad is truly about deception first.
We are fighting a war against the very people who follow the quran and "seerah", I fail to understand how this series of kids' books will produce beauty and peace.
We are the biggest fools in the history time if we allow this tripe in our schools and bookstores.
I hate the way Hitler is always brought into modern arguments, but did we allow Nazi childrens' books? That was a different time, and the American people had the guts to say NO.
What a horrid and disgusting insult to the Harry Potter series, which promotes old-fashioned Christian values of love, loyalty, courage, and truth. These are the values our children will need to fight the takeover of the world by the ummah.
"[A] New Delhi based publisher, Saniyasnain Khan has come up with the splendid idea to bring out a wide range of children’s books on Islam in English."
-- from the article above
Where are the translations, into two dozen languages, of Ibn Warraq's "Why I Am Not A Muslim" and "Leaving Islam"? Where are the translations of "The Dhimmi" and "Islam and Dhimmitude" by Bat Ye'or, or into at the very least English, of Antoine Fattal's "Le statut legal des non-musulmans en pays d'Islam"? Where are the translations of Spencer's books on the canonical texts of Islam and Muhammad, written with a mass audience in mind? Where are the translations of the sourcebooks "The Legacy of Jihad" and "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism"?
In a well-ordered world, where the American government was staffed by those who had their wits about them, translation of these and many other texts -- into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, for Western Europe (the most immediately threatened part of the West), and also, for other Infidels, into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindu, and into the languages most used by Muslims, Arabic and Farsi and Urdu and Bahasa (various versions) -- and then the widespread distribution, for pennies or nothing, of these texts, in easily-readable form, and also put up on the Internet, would be one of the most important acts in the Propaganda War which, I'm afraid, only one side -- the Muslim side -- is fighting.
"Why we fight" is a title employed, a bit too frequently, I'm afraid, by all sorts of Adminstration loyalists, so-called "conservatives."
At this point, it is not the right question.
The right question to ask, and then to answer -- is "Why we don't really fight."
For children 3-5: how to get married at 6
Call them the Harry Potter books on Islam"
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Well, they'll probably make "Harry Potter and Leopard Walk Up to Dragon" look like a major work of children's literature (this is the shameless--and obvious--Chinese fake "Harry Potter book" that came out a couple of years ago).
Seriously, though--it's hard to know how to take this. If Khan is really trying to present a more peaceful view of Islam to children, it might be a very good thing, even if he is ripping off J.K. Rowling to do it.
But, of course, most Muslim kids are going to be exposed to a lot of views of Islam beside that offered in Goodword Books--most of them--like the textbooks in Saudi Arabia--presenting a rather more horrific interpretation of what constitutes "true Islam".
Also, should we assume that Muslim kids are the main customers for these books? If so, that might be, even in a small way, all to the good. However, with the books available in English, French, and Danish, among others, it seems almost as likely that well-meaning Infidel parents will pick up these books in a spirit of multiculturalism, to teach their own children about the "beauty" of Islam. In this case, these works are nothing more than the usual white-washing Taqiyya.
I'd much rather all kids--including Muslim kids--read the marvelous original "Harry Potter" books. They are available in extensive translation--besides Arabic, also Albanian, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesia, Marathi, Malay, Malayam, Russian, Thai, Turkish, and Urdu--which, along with English and all European languages, should be available to pretty much any Muslim child.
Khan says “my endeavor is to present books for children that provide a solid foundation of Islamic moral values.
Uh Huh...Islamic moral values. We can see them in operation.
If you read their literature, listen to their spokespeople, and watch the conduct of the masses of muslims, you can just feel that love oozing out.
Also: so that they become little ambassadors of Islamic goodness and they also stimulate them to learn about Islamic ideals as they grow up,’
Is that whats wrong with so many muslims today?
That the majority of muslims got it wrong? Why is it we don't see adult 'ambassadors of Islamic goodness'? They missed the class on Islamic ideals and goodness? Well Khans books will fix that. In a few years these children will grow up and show us what 'Islamic goodness', is really made of...
When I was 1, I had just begun
When I was 2, I was very new
When I was 3, I was hardly me
When I was 4, I was so much more
When I was 5, I was much alive
Now I am 6, I'm so happy to marry
Three years from now, a baby I'll carry!
ImNoDhimmi wrote:
What a horrid and disgusting insult to the Harry Potter series, which promotes old-fashioned Christian values of love, loyalty, courage, and truth. These are the values our children will need to fight the takeover of the world by the ummah.
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Excellent post!
THE AIM: "to generate the love of Islam in children and young people so that when they grow up they spread its beauty around them."
Reality check. A Carlebach, 1958, discussing the Holy Land, and comparing what 1200 years of Islam gave and did, with what others had done and given:
"There were many great cultures here, and invaders of all kinds. All of them -- even the Crusaders -- left signs of culture and blossoming.
"But on the path of Islam, even the flies have died.”
On the path of Islam, even the flies have died.