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Susan L. Douglass
Or, why Johnny can't resist violent jihad. From WND:
WASHINGTON -- A top textbook consultant shaping classroom education on Islam in American public schools recently worked for a school funded and controlled by the Saudi government, which propagates a rigidly anti-Western strain of Islam, a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals.The consultant, Susan L. Douglass, has also praised Pakistan's madrassa schools as "proud symbols of learning," even after the U.S. government blamed them for fueling the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Douglass, routinely described as a "scholar" or "historian," has edited manuscripts of world history textbooks used by middle and high school students across the country. She's also advised state education boards on curriculum standards dealing with world religion, and has helped train thousands of public school teachers on Islamic instruction.
In effect, she is responsible for teaching millions of American children about Islam, experts say, while operating in relative obscurity.
WorldNetDaily has learned that up until last year Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., which teaches Wahhabism through textbooks that condemn Jews and Christians as infidels and enemies of Islam. Her husband, Usama Amer, still teaches at the grades 2-12 school, a spokeswoman there confirmed. Both are practicing Muslims.
The Saudi government funds the school, which has a sister campus in Fairfax, Va.
"It is a school that is under the auspices of the Saudi Embassy," said Ali al-Ahmed, executive director of the Washington-based Saudi Institute, a leading Saudi opposition group. "So the minister of education appoints the principal of the school, and the teachers are paid by the Saudi government."
He says many of the academy's textbooks he has reviewed contain passages promoting hatred of non-Muslims. For example, the eleventh-grade text says one sign of the Day of Judgment will be when Muslims fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees that say: "Oh Muslim, oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him."
Al-Ahmed, a Shiite Muslim born in predominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, says the school's religious curriculum was written by Sheik Saleh al-Fawzan, a senior member of the Saudi religious council, who he said has "encouraged war against unbelievers." Al-Fawzan has authored textbooks used in Saudi schools.
A report released last year by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom found that the Saudi Ministry of Education publishes texts presenting Islam as "the only true religion" and denouncing all other religions as "invalid" and "misguided."
"Christians and Jews repeatedly are labeled as infidels and enemies of Islam who should not be befriended or emulated, and are referred to in eighth-grade textbooks as 'apes and pigs,'" the report said. In addition, it found that "some Saudi government-funded textbooks used in North American Islamic schools have been found to encourage incitement to violence again non-Muslims."
Critics complain that Douglass, who taught at the Saudi academy for at least a decade, has convinced American textbook publishers and educators to gloss over the violent aspects of Islam to make the faith more appealing to non-Muslim children. The units on Islam reviewed by WND appear to give a glowing and largely uncritical view of the faith.
Asked about it, Douglass referred questions to the Council on Islamic Education, which did not respond. CIE's website lists her in its staff directory as a "principal researcher and writer."
CIE is a Los Angeles-based Muslim activist group run by Shabbir Mansuri, who has been quoted in the local press saying he's waging a "bloodless" revolution to fight what he calls anti-Muslim bias in public schools and promote Islam in a positive light in American classrooms. Mansuri, who consults with Saudi education ministers at his center, claimed in a 2002 op-ed piece that Islam has been on American soil "since before this nation was founded."
Also, he spoke at a 2001 Islamic conference with several Muslim extremists, including an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, according to a speakers schedule for the event obtained by WND.
The three major U.S. publishers of world history texts – Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill and Prentice Hall – have all let Mansuri and Douglass review their books. In fact, Houghton Mifflin's seventh-grade text, "Across the Centuries," was republished according to CIE's suggestions.
In the past, most K-12 texts devoted no more than a few pages to Islam. But thanks to CIE's efforts since 1990 – including lobbying state education boards – grade-school text units on Islam have flourished. "Across the Centuries," for one, spends more than 30 pages on Islam and includes colorful prose and graphics.
But it offers a sanitized version of Islam, critics say.
For instance, the text softens the meaning of "jihad" – a concept interpreted in Abdullah Yusuf Ali's "The Meaning of the Holy Quran" to mean "waging war," or "fighting in Allah's cause" – with dying while fighting in the cause being the highest form of jihad.
Holy war is not part of the definition found in the "Across the Centuries" textbook, however.
"An Islamic term that is often misunderstood is jihad," the text says on page 64. "The term means 'to struggle,' to do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil."
One of CIE's teachers guides lists quitting smoking as an example of jihad.
"It's a sugar-coated definition," said Edward White, associate counsel for the Thomas More Law Center, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based public-interest law firm which has fought what it sees as Islamic indoctrination in U.S. public education.
Even scholar John L. Esposito, considered by critics to be one of Islam's leading apologists, has written that "jihad means the struggle to spread and to defend Islam" – through "warfare" if necessary.
Houghton Mifflin's high school world history textbook, "Patterns of Interaction," used in Texas and other states, reportedly leaves jihad out altogether.
White argues Houghton Mifflin has published an unrealistic picture of Islam, and has been manipulated by CIE, which clearly has a pro-Muslim bias.
The Boston-based publisher denies it. A spokesman called the assertion "unfounded."
However, its editorial director for school social studies told a Muslim website in 1999 that it's also allowed CIE to critique its coverage of Christian history, and to add its view of what the Crusades were like for the Muslims.
The article, posted on Sound Vision.com, a marketer of Muslim educational products, quotes Houghton Mifflin editor Abigail Jungreis as saying, "We've had a really good relationship with them (CIE) over the years. Their reviewers are knowledgeable."Jungreis singles out Douglass for praise in the article.
Douglass has argued for more in-depth coverage of Islam in classrooms, while at the same time advising that Christian principles, including historic facts such as Christ's crucifixion, are clearly qualified with attributions such as "Christians believe."
Houghton Mifflin is not the only major publisher influenced by CIE. Prentice Hall also collaborates with the group. And its "Connections to Today," which is the most widely used world history book in the country, instructs students that jihad is an "inner struggle to achieve spiritual peace," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Also, CIE has helped write supplemental teachers materials that engage children in entertaining Muslim role-playing activities in the class. Parents say they make the study of Christianity and other religions seem dull by comparison.
A CIE-edited teachers aid used in California schools became the subject of a federal First Amendment case last year, as WorldNetDaily reported. The Thomas More Law Center sued a San Francisco-area school district on behalf of parents of seventh-graders who were required to "become Muslims" for two weeks as part of their world history unit on Islam.
However, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton, a Clinton appointee, dismissed the lawsuit against the Byron Union School District, arguing the Muslim unit does not promote religion, and therefore does not violate the First Amendment's clause against religious establishment.
White, the lawyer in the case, says he's filed an appeal to overturn the ruling.
The controversial role-playing module, which CIE helped write, requires kids to recite Muslim prayers and verses of the Quran in class. Students also are required to give up things like watching TV or eating candy for a day to simulate Islamic fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"From the beginning, you and your classmates will become Muslims," the Student Guide portion of the Islam module instructs seventh-graders as an introduction to the material.
White notes that the module, titled "Islam: A simulation of Islamic history and culture," also white-washes the meaning of jihad, calling it a "struggle against oppression."
According to a copyright statement on page 91 of the module obtained by WorldNetDaily, its California-based publisher, Interaction Publishers Inc., agreed to allow CIE "to revise the original manuscript" after CIE protested "errors of fact and interpretation in Western historians' presentation of Islam."
"They had a hand in the revisions to this handbook," White asserted.
The same page states that the publisher also incorporated suggestions by Yousef Salem, associate director of the Islamic Education and Information Center in San Jose, Calif. Salem, a former Saudi resident, has praised the Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, and called Israelis "terrorists."
The module mirrors parts of the middle-school religious curriculum at the Islamic Saudi Academy where Douglass taught, and where her husband still teaches.
For instance, the Islamic religion coursework for Grade 7 emphasizes, among other things, the "importance of reciting the Quran," according to the academy's website. Eighth-graders, moreover, study "fasting" and "pilgrimage." (They also study Quranic verses that deal with "the Punishment of the Disbelievers.")
The California Department of Education, which requires all seventh-grade world history courses to include a unit on Islam, approved the text and module. In 1998, the state overhauled its standards for its Islam unit to include more teaching about the Muslim prophet Muhammad and the Quran. Mansuri made numerous trips to Sacramento to lobby for the changes, and the department invited CIE to review its draft.
Many California parents say the state essentially is allowing Muslim activists to brainwash their kids into accepting Islam, while at the same time marginalizing Christianity.
In contrast to the seventh-grade Muslim unit, where children are first introduced to Islam, the earlier one on Christianity does not involve any role play. Students are not asked to recite Christian prayers or memorize Scripture.
Moreover, parents argue that neither the Islam chapter nor the role-playing module critically discuss the anti-Christian jihads of old, or new ones led by Islamic terrorists like Osama bin Laden. In fact, Byron teachers warned students against saying anything negative about Islam, U.S. court documents show.
And Islam is praised for tolerance and acceptance of other beliefs.
Yet the unit on Christianity is critical of that core American faith, particularly concerning the Crusades (which came on the heels of earlier Islamic invasions of non-Muslim territory).
One local parent, Jen Schroeder, told WND she worries California may be unwittingly producing more John Walker Lindhs. Lindh, who joined the Taliban, was a product of San Francisco public schools.
"John Walker Lindh is the fruit of California's efforts. He was a young impressionable child, just as my son is," she said. "How many more John Walkers before we stop promoting Islam in public schools?"
She and other critics charge CIE is not just interested in correcting factual or historical errors in textbooks. They say it has a hidden agenda: using public schools to promote Islam. And to do that, they say, it must first make it less threatening to nonbelievers, and more mainstream.
But in an October 2002 white paper, Douglass argued schools should respect the First Amendment and avoid indoctrinating students into religion.
"Teaching about religion should neither promote nor denigrate the ideals of any faith," she wrote.
At the same time, however, she warned teachers against "presenting non-Western religions as static traditions whose unfamiliarity to students can make them seem irrational." ...
Douglass and other staffers at CIE have trained more than 8,000 public school teachers in America on Islam instruction, according to the SoundVision.com article. The center has sold hundreds of copies of its teachers guide to public schools. Besides holding teacher workshops, CIE staffers also lecture at schools and colleges about Islam.
'Islam an American religion'
Douglass is associated with another Muslim activist group, one that is under federal investigation.
From 1988 to 1994, she wrote K-6 social studies books for the International Institute of Islamic Thought, or IIIT, a Saudi-tied charity. Federal authorities in 2002 raided IIIT's Northern Virginia offices on suspicion of terrorist ties.
Shortly after the raids, Mansuri defended the group's officials as "law-abiding Muslims" in a column distributed by the State Department's Office of International Information Programs.
IIIT president Taha Jaber al-Alwani once signed a copy of a fatwa declaring that jihad is the only way to liberate Palestine, according to a federal affidavit for the search warrant. He's also close to Sami al-Arian, recently arrested on terrorism-related charges.
In the same 2002 column, "Muslims Due Place at Table," Mansuri asserted: "Islam is an American religion," adding that "Islam has been on this soil since before the nation was founded, having come over with African slaves."
In July 2001, Mansuri spoke at the Islamic Circle of North America's convention in Cleveland with New York imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and with Sheik Abdur Rahman al-Sudais, the senior imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, who has been quoted vilifying Jews as the "scum of humanity" and "the grandsons of monkeys and pigs."
The previous year Mansuri also appeared with Wahhaj at a fund-raising banquet hosted by the Saudi-backed Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Mansuri received an award for helping to eliminate Muslim stereotypes.
Some CAIR officials recently have been arrested on terrorism-related charges.
Nonetheless, the Washington-based Muslim-rights group has launched a coast-to-coast drive to stock public libraries with Islamic books as part of its campaign to educate Americans on the "peaceful" attributes of Islam.
One of the books on its recommended reading list: "Beyond a Thousand and One Nights" by Susan L. Douglass.
Posted by Robert at May 4, 2004 6:47 AM
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School committees, administrators, and teachers should insist that the textbooks published by those who use any of the material prepared by, or approved by, Susan Douglass, and those with whom she is linked, will simply not be considered. If appeals to history and the truth, or to decency, or to common sense (given where she has taught, and what is taught in that Saudi school), all fail -- and they may -- then those publishers should be punished, with a deliberate boycott not only of the immediately offending texts, but of other books they publish.
And if schoolboards do not do their duty, then members of state legislatures, having been alerted to the problem, should make their views very clear, when budgets are approved, and appointments made. There are many ways to concentrate the minds of those who order the textbooks, and those who publish them.
Even those who now allow their textbooks to be published by the same publishers may wish to taking those books, or those they may write in the future, elsewhere. It is really a question of inflicting sufficient economic pain on publishers and school administrations so that they will see that those little "Units on Islam," if they fail not only to omit the truth about the centrality of Jihad, or fail to mention the dar al-Islam/dar al-Harb distinction, or fail to discuss the treatment, everywhere that Islam conquered and non-Muslm peoples were subjugated, of dhimmis -- if these essential items are left out, then the entire unit must be left out. To do anything else is to collaborate in a great lie about history, and at this point, one that is dangerous. We need not collaborate in the deliberate brainwashing of our own children. We just don't.
Posted by: Hugh at May 4, 2004 9:11 AMTotally unacceptable.
When children are learning about the African slave trade, the smallpox-poisoning of the American Indians, the pre-suffrage years of feminism, or the Holocaust, they are given the whole dark picture.
Islam should have no glossing-over, either.
What's worse, is that this woman sugar-coats while simultaneously preaching violent jihad. (See the mention of her Wahhabist school teaching.) Call it what you want, al-Taqiyya or Doublethink, it's the same end result. It's a shame the woman (judging from her name and skin colour, she's a citizen) can't be deported to one of the Islamic paradises she loves.
Posted by: Ananda at May 4, 2004 9:21 AMAPOLOGIES to Mr. Spencer for being off topic and using his site, but this is important:
SUGGESTION, PLEA, etc.
There is an online newspaper called ArabNews that is the quasi-official electronic propaganda rag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its "news" is a spew of anti-Americanism and anti-Israel propaganda. You know the kind--has a permanent "Remembering 911" link that does not work and a "Life of the Prophet" one that, of course, does.
It does, however, have one good feature. It has a "Comment" capability so that the Dhimmis can send kiss a-- messages back.
MY SUGGESTION TO ALL OF YOU:
Go to www.arabnews.com and go to the "comment" buttons at the bottom of the stories. Then GIVE 'EM HELL.
I particularly suggest listing, over and over and over again the names of Mrs. Hatuel and her five children. You can get them from the Israeli foreign ministry website www.israel.org
Again, my apologies to Mr. Spencer for taking advantage of his site, but this is war.
Posted by: Rick at May 4, 2004 10:05 AMWake up people! Start writing the media. Start writing and phoning your politicians. Start making some noise or you will see the following:
1) The first thing that Muslims will do is to ensure that no restrictions are placed on Muslim immigration.
2) The second thing that Muslims will do is try and influence Western governments to abandon their support for Israel.
3) The third thing that they will do is attempt to get Western governments to allow them to have their own publicly funded separate systems of justice(based on Shariah)and education.
4) The fourth thing that they will do when they have sufficient population concentrations in a particular geographic area is agitate for a separate state of their own within the Western countries that they are in. If you look at history, they have done this in every place that they have ever gone in large numbers. Then, we can either give in to such a demand or a civil war will begin. The more Muslims that we let in, the more danger there is that we will have civil wars in all the countries of the Western world.
Get off your butts people and do something to stop this insanity! Our children are going to pay and pay and pay for the willful and culpable blindness being displayed in the West at the current time.
"THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING."
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke
"Enter upon your inheritance, accept your responsibilities."
Winston Churchill
Rick:
I don't mind your talking about this, but I must urge everyone not to bombard Arab News or anyone else with abusive remarks, insults, etc. Such will not serve any purpose except to reinforce prejudices, increase antagonism, and possibly even jeopardize Jihad Watch as a whole.
The most effective way to write to them, if you are so inclined, is to be very specific (and adjective-less) about what they are doing that you find offensive, and ask a lot of questions. Yes, this is war. Let us fight so as to win.
Cordially,
Robert Spencer
As I have frequently said the only religion allowed to be taught today in the US Public Schools is a very sanitized version of Islam.
Students have only negative views about Judaism and Christianity, believe me.
CAIR representatives are allowed to come to World Studies classes to speak about Islam. No other faith is given such access. World Studies classes take students to Mosques - but never to any other religious building - temple, church, etc. Sayings of the Quran are posted on the class room walls, but nothing from any other faith - no Buddhist Suras, nothing from the Torah, the New Testament, the Vedas, etc.
When I tell students that Christians were the force behind the Abolition Movement in the USA and Europe which led to slavery being outlawed in the West, I am not believed.
When I tell them that Islam allows for Slavery even today and that currently Muslims take slaves, I am not believed.
When I tell them that Muslim slave traders were in Africa much earlier than any European ones, I am not believed - after all only Europeans - the evil white man! - are vile enough to enslave others.
When I tell them that Islam is anti-woman - giving specific examples from the Quran and the Hadiths, I am not believed....because NO Muslim does that anymore! and/Or I am given Old Testament lines about stoning the adultress, etc - which we all know Jews and Christians still do!
Basically nothing is told about how Africans enslaved and sold other Africans and that the Muslims played a huge role in the slave trade.
Students only hear how Islam is a religion of Peace and that Muslims are being targeted and harrassed daily - they know nothing about the Muslim genocide on peoples of any other faith throughout the world - past , present and into the future!
Regarding the issue of Muslims being targeted or being harrassed, minority students really buy into this as they have felt the sting of being unfairly treated (at least in their minds.
Whenever I bring up something which is not the clean "goodie-goodie" version of Islam, their answer is "Those are just the few extremists which give Islam a bad name!" They can parrot the CAIR mantras beautifully - they neither know anything about the Judeo-Christian foundation of the USA nor respect it - they have been taught that the Judeo-Christian foundation of the USA is completely exploitive and inhumane and due to it the USA is hated throughout the world because the USA is just an imperalist power out for its own self-serving interests. The USA must change its evil ways and that is the reason for 9/11 - the USA brought it on itself! These students do not believe that the West is hated for "being" - period! They do not recognize the fascism/totaletarianism/theocracy inherent in Islam - because the truth is not allowed to be taught!
Unless the US Public School changes how Islam and all other faiths are presented, in 20 years the USA will be facing the issue of Sharia~
jihan
Hi guys,
Does anyone have a list of these altered textbooks? I, for one, would like to read for myself to see what they are trying to do. Then I would like to write to my congress people with specific examples and register my objections.
Luciano
Posted by: Luciano at May 4, 2004 10:35 AMI too would like to obtain an example of these texts - but the originals, not the altered versions. Saudi sponsored Wahabism and Islamic fascism have been operating under the radar for too long. It's about time the western democracies to take note of what is being taught and who is funding it.
Can you imagine a Christian fundamentalist sect publishing material denigrating other religions? If any did the press would be all over them like a bad rash.
Posted by: John B. at May 4, 2004 10:59 AMMy kid will be starting school soon. If I get one whiff of this BS, I will be all over them. As long as the kids are taught the truth (a bit of an oxymoron where religion is concerned)I don't mind but they cannot promote one religion over the other and paint a picture that is not there.
Posted by: Bob at May 4, 2004 11:20 AMAlthough I realize that it is not practical or possible for most parents, homeschooling allows a real choice in the educational formation of children. I plan to homeschool my 18 month old. I have five grown children who went through the public high school system....and no thanks, no more children of mine will be offered up to that system. The whitewashing of Islam has been going on for sometime. Once I asked a young history teacher why he did not cover the Arab/Muslim slave trade that went on for centuries and continues to this day. He had a short and simple answer for me. "I don't know anything about that subject." An objective history of Islam and its devastating effects on other cultures and religions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia are deliberately not taught in public or many parochial schools. For those with children in the public schools, keep fighting. Those days are over for me. My kitchen table will be my daughter's classroom.
Posted by: elizabeth at May 4, 2004 11:49 AMMr. Spencer:
Will your publisher forward private correspondence to you?
Has anyone thought of establishing an anti-Dhimmitude public law firm. In other words, setting up a private, non-profit group of lawyers to respond to cases like those in Hamtranck, Michigan.
We have reached the point where the Judeo-Christian tradition needs an anti-Islamization group with well funded lawyers. Anti-CAIR is attempting this but it needs more funds and about 100 flesh ripping lawyers.
The ordinary person is overwhelmed by the legal fire power CAIR can muster.
Posted by: Athena at May 4, 2004 12:22 PMMy dear Athena,
Kalispera! Ti kanis?
"Will your publisher forward private correspondence to you?"
Yes.
"Has anyone thought of establishing an anti-Dhimmitude public law firm. In other words, setting up a private, non-profit group of lawyers to respond to cases like those in Hamtranck, Michigan."
That is a great idea. Funding is the problem. I applaud Anti-CAIR's efforts and hope they succeed.
Cordially,
Robert Spencer
All americans that think that this is stupid please email your congressmen and senators via u.s.gov.com and let them stop using our tax money to promote hate and killing through our public school system; this is how the muslim will win, if we continue to do nothing.
Posted by: christian at May 4, 2004 2:07 PMWhere is the ACLU.
Should'nt they be screaming separation of church and state?
Double standards.
ACLU only goes against Christians.
Posted by: Alaska at May 4, 2004 3:47 PMIf you want to see the kind of sanitized tripe this so-called "scholar" is pushing on our kids, right-click on this link:
http://www.amideast.org/publications/introduction-to-islam&arabs.pdf
and download her PDF on "Introduction to Islam and the Arabs in the Mideast."
Two samples. First: "Some important prophets
from the Fertile Crescent region were Noah, Job,
Jonah, and Abraham. The story of Abraham
especially links the region and the faiths."
According to Christian and Jewish tradition, Noah and Abraham were patriarchs, not prophets. Job was neither. Only if you're writing from the Qur'anic perspective are they all considered prophets. So how "scholarly" and "unbiased" can this person be?
Second: "Unlike many empires before them, Muslims
gave Jews and Christians religious tolerance.
According to Islamic law, Jews and Christians
were allowed to worship and live according to
their faiths, and in practice, this tolerance was
often extended to other groups."
Right. Nothing more to be said on that subject, huh, Susan?
Posted by: Cato the Elder at May 4, 2004 4:20 PMfunny how christians and jews are apes and pigs...well these apes and pigs are exploring mars now while muslims cant even build a washing machine....they are an entertaining bunch arent they?
Posted by: pro-orthodox at May 4, 2004 9:17 PMWell, I wanted to see for myself, and I wished I hadn't. I can't vouch for their accuracy, but one is supposed textbook and lesson plans and other is about the lawsuit. Hope you have a strong stomach.
Textbook and classroom "exercises"
http://www.blessedcause.org/Bias%20in%20California%20Schools.htm
Lawsuit
http://www.religiontoday.com/1115944.html
This one is about Islamic Saudi Academy where Ms. Douglass husband teaches math.
http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/muslims.html
I am Australian with a grandchild in America -California- and I'm horrified that Americans are allowing the horror of Islam to be hidden and Islamic text etc pushed onto your children! I had always believed in the power of the American people and I can't believe the majority are so stupid, so blindly tolerant that they can let this happen!
Those trying to show kids that Muslims today continue abusing others can go to www.bharatvani.org and see the gang-rape, burning alive and threats of death if people don't convert to Islam in Bangladesh or try a google search for 'Religious freedom in the majority Muslim countries 1998' and see the horror in 46 such places!
As for slavery, the book 'Slave' by Mende Nazer is her story of her enslavement in the Sudan -Islam continues slavery today as it has from mohammad! The Koran and Mohammad himself fully endorsed and practised slavery and sex with slaves eg suras 4.24, 23.1-7. He had black slaves eg Bukhari hadiths Volume 3, book 43, number 648.
Tragically the same thing is happening in Australia- I had a fight recently with a teacher using a book that claimed the famous doctor al-Razi (Rhazes) was Muslim when he was NOT and in fact wrote anti-religious text, didn't believe in the prophethood of Mohammad or the pillars of Islam and wrote that the Koran was nothing but an assorted mixture of 'absurd and inconsistent fables'....see Ibn Warraq's book Why I am not a Muslim 1995 p 268. This was but one of many errors this person was teaching. I doubt she changed anything as these people don't want truth- if the truth were told about their religion no humane, rational person would follow it so they have to hide the truth. Hence one way to fight is to publish Islamic text, particularly the frightening Medina text which over-rides all else and is full of hatred and instructions to kill non-Muslims. There is also heaps of vile text against women eg 4.34- beat women, 2.223 sodomise them (apparently after a question on sodomy ), etc www.faithfreedom.ORG has plenty of text and plenty of idiot science from the Koran - that piece of absolute literal truth.
Don't stop fighting! Our children's and grandchildren's human rights, freedom,equality and safety depend on preventing islam from destroying our societies- societies that we should be very proud of compared to backward totalitarian Islamic countries. Indeed, because the UN declaration of human rights conflicted with Islamic law they wrote their own declaration in Paris 1981-
Some recent comments-
***Saudi clerics call women's rights movement an anti-Muslim plot: (Thursday , September 11, 2003 Associated Press) 130 Prominent Saudi clerics and academics warned Wednesday against calls for equality and increased rights for omen. "Efforts to give women greater rights are part of an anti-Islamic campaign spearheaded by the United States." The statement said "EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IS NOT POSSIBLE UNDER ISLAM. ANY CALLS FOR ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IS AN ILLEGAL AND ILLOGICAL CALL."
****Even Muslims claim the idea of human rights comes from Jews eg Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad delivered a speech to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit meeting in Putrajaya Malaysia 2003 entitled: Treaty Now - Triumph Later - The Jews Are Making Mistakes (Muslims should make false treaties now and then kill Jews/westerners when the Muslims have built an arsenal) In it he stated "They (Jews) invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others.'
Don't give up or there will be no human rights!!!
After reading some of the stuff that college freshmen write in world civ essay exams, I'm starting to wonder if it really matters what is in the textbooks.
Posted by: Rick at May 6, 2004 9:57 AMpreaching hatred in schools is against the law.
why isn't she fired and expelled from the country?
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