But then again, they are our politicians' "friends and allies." A closer look into Saudi textbooks for children: "Saudi schoolbooks teach piety, hate," by Anne Applebaum, for GoErie.com, July 24
Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question from a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, "Monotheism and Jurisprudence," in a section that attempts to teach children to distinguish between "true" and "false" belief in God:A novel idea indeed.Q. "Is belief true in the following instances:
(a) A man prays but hates those who are virtuous.
(b) A man professes that there is no deity other than God but loves the unbelievers.
(c) A man worships God alone, loves the believers, and hates the unbelievers."
The correct answer, of course, is (c): According to the Wahhabi imams who wrote this textbook, it isn't enough to simply worship God or just to love other believers; it is important to hate unbelievers, too. By the same token, (b) is wrong as well: Even a man who worships God cannot be said to have "true belief" if he also loves unbelievers.
"Unbelievers," in this context, are Christians and Jews. In fact, any child who attends Saudi schools until ninth grade will eventually be taught outright that "Jews and Christians are enemies of believers."
These passages, it should be noted, are from new, "revised" Saudi textbooks, designed to be less harsh on the infidels. The promised revision -- hailed at the time as a great diplomatic success -- was supposed to be finished by the beginning of the 2008-09 school year and was accompanied by a Saudi public relations campaign.
Among other things, the Saudis sponsored an interfaith dialogue this week, one that all participants hailed as a great breakthrough, despite the fact that the meetings took place apparently because it would be too embarrassing for Saudi Arabia to host Christian and Jewish religious leaders on its own soil.
But now the beginning of the 2008-09 school year is nearly upon us, the only textbook revisions have been superficial and the most disturbing part of the books' message -- that faithful Muslims should hate Jews and Christians -- remains.
Saudi schoolbooks are a special case. They are written and produced by the Saudi government and are distributed, free, to Saudi-sponsored Muslim schools as far afield as Lagos and Buenos Aires.
[...]We also have two presidential candidates who are arguing hard about the best way to combat terrorism, the best way to deploy guns and aid, the best uses of power.
Here is a novel idea for both of them: Make sure that children in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and in Islamic schools all around the world have decent fourth-grade textbooks. Help persuade the Muslim world to write and distribute them. It might save a lot of trouble a few years later on.
As I've noted many times before, cat's out of the bag.
It's too late for CAIR.
It's too late for the O.I.C. to throttle all discussion and analysis and investigation and criticism of Islam in the Western world.
It's too late for the army of Western hirelings who think they can get away with what they used to get away with (google "Peter Hannaford" and "1989" and "Saudi Aramco World").
It's too late even for that U.N. Commission that is determined to do away with, to suppress, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- especially Articles 18 and 19 -- in order to slyly substitute the Muslim-acceptable, and very different, fatally-vitiated version of that document, which was concocted to pretend that Muslims, too, believe in the same principles, only just a little bit different, as expressed in the Cairo Declaration that is nothing like, that is completely different from, the Universal Declaration. It's too late for
Miaou.
I wrote an email on that column pointing out that the ideas involved weren't Wahhabism or extremism or Islamofascism or even Islamism: they were Islam pure and simple, based on the Quran and other core holy writings.
It is no wonder that the radical element of Islam is gaining ground in the Moslem world and elsewhere: Their young spend most of their school life on religious subjects (little time on traditional academic subjects like math, language [except as associated with memorizing the Koran, of course], real history, science, etc.). The religious aspect permeates everything, and much if not most of it is hate-filled, barbaric and ignorant.
Ignorant people who have been taught nothing but lies all their life, are untutored in real history and present day world realities make ideal subjects for Jihad of the most violent kind.
This is child abuse of the most obscene kind.
Sharia.
Reach out and kill someone.
Keep this article up your sleeve for the benefit of your local Mayor, state or federal representative, and other officials and public servants, if and when there are proposals to build an Islamic School in your neighbourhood...