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UK textbook tells children to “respect” jihad terrorists and write them letters

May 29, 2017 5:52 pm By Robert Spencer

“The book, Talking About Terrorism, published weeks before the Manchester Arena atrocity, describes the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent members of the public as a ‘type of war.'”

It is a “type of war,” but not one that sweet letters from schoolchildren will bring to a satisfactory close. British schools should be teaching children about the Islamic doctrine of jihad, and explaining exactly what “type of war” they will be facing as they reach adulthood. Instead, this defeatist twaddle that once again places the blame for jihad violence upon its Infidel victims.

If Britain is not finished, how exactly will it survive the relentless fecklessness and treasonous willful ignorance of its leaders?

“Write a letter to terrorists! Children told to ‘respect’ killers in new teaching aid,” by Jon Coates, Express, May 28, 2017 (thanks to A.):

A NEW teaching aid that recommends schoolchildren as young as seven “write a letter to a terrorist” to help understand their motives has been condemned as “dangerous and misguided”.

The book, Talking About Terrorism, published weeks before the Manchester Arena atrocity, describes the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent members of the public as a “type of war”.

It tells primary age children that terrorists kill people because they believe they are being treated “unfairly and not shown respect”.

It gives examples of “terrorists” whose ideas then turn out to be right: “The Suffragettes used violence and were called terrorists,,,,” it stated.

“Today many people think of them as brave women and admire their struggle for the right to vote.”

In an activity recommended for pupils aged seven to 11, teachers are urged to “invite children to write a letter to a terrorist. If they could ask a terrorist six questions, what would they be?”

The book, published by Brilliant Publications and containing a foreword by Peter Wanless, the chief executive of the NSPCC, has been slammed by critics who say it is potentially dangerous.

Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the letter task would confuse and potentially upset pupils.

He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.

“It is part of the “British Values” agenda that is being forced on schools by Ofsted and the educational establishment.

“The primary school classroom is not the place to humanise terrorism by ‘pretend dialogue’.”…

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  1. No Fear says

    May 29, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    That will simply teach the children that jihadis are to be respected. Jihadis are scum. Mohammed was scum. Islam will never be respected by me and many others.

    • Don Foss says

      May 30, 2017 at 3:26 am

      The biggest take-away from Manchester? Confirmation that the UK is gleefully jumping into its own grave. When the dirt is flying on them and they finally start screaming for help from America, we should sadly just turn our backs, walk away, and go to those who want our help and have refused to jump in the grave previous pols and Muslims have dug for them. Poland and Hungary first. Western Europe is already on its last breath.

      • Michael McDermott says

        May 30, 2017 at 4:12 am

        America appears not to be immune from the prevailing mental illness of its politicians.

  2. somehistory says

    May 29, 2017 at 6:34 pm

    The goal is to get them young and sully their immature brains with evil garbage as though it is something worthwhile and defensible. They wish the children to grow up to defend and fight for the evil beast.

  3. Tetvet1968 says

    May 29, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    That sounds like something the UN would demand we adhere too.

    • WPM says

      May 29, 2017 at 6:48 pm

      Did they the Nazi guards at the camps receive or expected to receive letters for the children they were going to gas ,and kill? How twisted are these Western progressives? Should rape victims be excepted to send love letters to their rapist???

      • jayell says

        May 30, 2017 at 12:28 am

        Did thousands of children from London’s East End send ‘sweet letters’ to Luftwaffe based across the channel in WW2?

        • jayell says

          May 30, 2017 at 1:07 am

          Actually, come to think.of it, this is EXACTLY what would have happened after a successul Luftwaffe invasion. All the local schoolchildren would have had a visit from the nice Nazi people and would have written letters back, just like what happens now when the ‘nice, caring’ imam goes into a school and they all have a ‘Let’s Be a Muslim’ day! After all, that nice imam north London was telling Express readers that ‘Islam literally means ‘Peace’, and universal respect and love and….And it seems like all the idiots fell for it.

        • gravenimage says

          May 30, 2017 at 9:17 pm

          Spot on points, WPM and Jayell.

  4. Kiki says

    May 29, 2017 at 6:57 pm

    Jihadists are genocidal…..there’s no way around it. They believe themselves superior and that every other group must either submit or die.

    “Not being shown respect” is not the reason for their actions at all–many jihadists are western educated, rich or at least well-off, and leave behind loving families. They join because they support this genocide.

    It’s Nazism, it’s the Interahamwe in Rwanda, it’s the Khmer Rouge all over again.
    Did anyone expect potential victims to write to Nazis or Interahamwe butchers, or whatever? NO.

    Children should never be taught that genocide is understandable. They should be taught that it’s wrong, it’s never okay, and that it’s up to us all to stand against them.

    And how dare the teachers compare jihadists to suffragettes! Suffragettes didn’t shoot up concert halls full of teenagers, they didn’t blow up civilians on a bus, they fought for their rights peacefully.

    • Guest says

      May 29, 2017 at 8:35 pm

      It’s an absolute outrage to make the comparison! The suffragettes chained themselves to fences and went on hunger strikes! Let jihadis do that if they want to gain their caliphate.

      • gravenimage says

        May 30, 2017 at 12:22 am

        Exactly, Guest. They were not slaughtering innocent people. What calumny.

  5. Ashley says

    May 29, 2017 at 6:57 pm

    In an activity recommended for pupils aged seven to 11, teachers are urged to “invite children to write a letter to a terrorist. If they could ask a terrorist six questions, what would they be?”
    _______________

    OMG!

    Encouraging children to initiate being “pen pals” with terrorists????

    • gravenimage says

      May 30, 2017 at 12:23 am

      This would be insanely dangerous with garden-variety criminals. To have *children* become pen pals with Jihadists is madness.

  6. Aloha Akbar says

    May 29, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    From Brilliant Publications?????
    More like “Bullshit Publications”

  7. mortimer says

    May 29, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    JIHAD is war of BIGOTRY and SUPREMACISM against the DIRTY KUFAAR who are the lowest of beings … even lower than vermin! Kafirs do not deserve to live!

    All Muslims know this. So why do our schools not teach what Islam REALLY TEACHES ALL MUSLIMS?

    We cannot oppose an enemy if we do not understand what a SUPREMACIST WANTS.

    A supremacist wants SUPREMACY. A supremacist will not be satisfied with less than SUPREMACY.

    A supremacist cannot be appeased because he wants only SUPREMACY.

  8. Aloha Akbar says

    May 29, 2017 at 7:11 pm

    Chris McGovern is on to something more here. He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.

    By saying “RELIGIOUS” fanatics, or “RELIGIOUS” terrorists etc. one can’t be accused of ISLAMAPHOBIA by any fair minded liberals….. Oh!

    • mortimer says

      May 29, 2017 at 7:22 pm

      Agree with Chris McGovern… they are crackpots to put it lightly.

      Children should NOT be communicating with TERRORISTS.

      The POLICE and the POLICE ONLY should communicate with terrorists.

  9. James says

    May 29, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    Such idiocy is beyond satire. There is no power on earth that will persuade these deluded people that jihadis deserve rather less respect than the Gestapo.

  10. Blangwort says

    May 29, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    This makes no sense. If this is a form of warfare, why can’t people fight back?

    How about we not only disrespect terrorists, but mutilate their corpse and bury it in a pile of pig offal. Publicly.

    And then name the family. Show their pictures as people who knew what he was up to and did nothing.

    And shame the mosque he attended regularly. Maybe even prosecute the Imam if there is any reason to think he inspired this crap.

    They’re not adhering to the Geneva Conventions, and their religion advocates deceit and hatred for those very ideals.

  11. Guest says

    May 29, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    “The Suffragettes used violence and were called terrorists,,,,” it stated.
    Funny I don’t recall hearing that in history class. Even if I did I would have said, ‘they had no right,’ and, ‘it was the protesters who won our right to vote not violence.’ Not that modern Muslim terrorists are even fighting for ‘rights.’

  12. Guest says

    May 29, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    “Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the letter task would confuse and potentially upset pupils. He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.”
    Mr. McGovern, thank you.

  13. SAM says

    May 29, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    This whole Islam enabling business is just sickening to me.

    I am sick of Islam and Muslims.

  14. gravenimage says

    May 30, 2017 at 12:15 am

    UK textbook tells children to “respect” jihad terrorists and write them letters
    ……………………

    I’ve heard a lot of suicidal idiocy, but this may be the worst.

    Comparing suffragists for women’s votes to murderous Jihadists is *just sickening*.

    And do these moral idiots realize how much danger they are putting children in having them write to Jihadists? Do they *really* want these thugs stalking these children when they get out?

    I hope British parents and just good citizens fight back hard here.

  15. somehistory says

    May 30, 2017 at 12:34 am

    Scenario:

    Child writes letter to murderers, terrorists working to enforce their code on everyone.
    Child signs the letter, giving enough information for the murderer.. the kind that rape children daily and call it *marriage8…to find the child.
    The terrorist arranges to kidnap the child…who has befriended him.
    Far-fetched? Some would have said many things happening today would not have been possible…only a few years ago.

    I’m sure this is what the writers of the book intend to happen to these children whom they have given the worst possible instruction.

    • simpleton1 says

      May 30, 2017 at 7:14 am

      It is simply grooming, a most popular occupation in a number of English cities, that a lot of authorities, police, social welfare system, councils and politicians are ok with it.

      So it is only natural that the education should assist that grooming.

    • gravenimage says

      May 30, 2017 at 9:19 pm

      Yes–that is something I would worry about, as well, Somehistory.

  16. Troybeam says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:05 am

    Afraid to teach the truth thats’ all this is, with so many Muslim children in the school system and community the school system is afraid to confront the truth so they become appeasers and lie to keep the peace. With all the news about terror attacks and such this becomes a catch 22, adults know it and any sane person would do something about it, but then again England, Germany and other nations with the Islamic flood are cowards and refuse to fight to maintain sovereignty of their nations.

  17. davej says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:11 am

    This is right up there with saying the victims of the Manchester Massacre “lost their lives”, like it was some absent minded and entirely random force of nature. Why not call it what it is – a sadistic slaughter of innocents by another Muslim Madman?

    They are trying to normalize terrorism and condition the population to accept it without protest or resistance, while also implying that the jihadist cause is somehow progressive and will eventually succeed. Which it will if this is the pathetic, defeatist response.

  18. pragmatist says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:23 am

    That people who are stupid and ignorant enough to believe that terrorists feel that they are being treated unfairly, and equate them with suffragettes, can be allowed anywhere near children, let alone write books for them, passes all belief.

  19. Dustin says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:38 am

    Respect for filthy animals

  20. Lioness says

    May 30, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    And what will the terrorists write back to the children? “Come join us, infidel children, to wage war for Allah to cleanse your filthy souls. We will teach you how to strike terror in you schools and homes.”. A perfect recruitment for ISIS.

    • gravenimage says

      May 30, 2017 at 9:22 pm

      *Exactly*, Lioness.

      They can endanger these children, either by directly threatening them, or by recruiting them for Jihad terror.

  21. Ace-of-Clubs says

    May 30, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Nothing surprises me any more about our useless education system in the UK. Educational policy has been formulated by the PC lefties for several decades. Children are being brainwashed and it has been going on for a long time now. They leave school without a clear grasp of their own nation’s history, and often they may even have been told bad things about their own country’s past. These youngsters are also not being taught how to speak and write good English, and are learning little or nothing about western culture. Large numbers of people under the age of 45 have been brainwashed in this way, and even some who are older than that. I wish I could understand why the liberal lefties hate the west so much, why do they want the Muslims to take over and destroy us all ? To me, they are all traitors.

  22. Lydia says

    May 30, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    More proof of the evil plot orchestrated behind the scenes from the powers that be colluding together.

  23. Sarah says

    May 31, 2017 at 6:38 am

    What kind of parent lines up their children to receive doctrine from the State that trains them to willingly submit to slaughter.

    Pull your kids out of the British school system.

  24. Lon Spector says

    May 31, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Thousands are going to be killed this summer. The Obama/Soros sleepers are going to
    unleash the dogs of war, anywhere and everywhere by any means necessasy. There’s
    no stopping them because it would be “racist” to try. If you don’t accqress to you’re own
    suicide, and to the suicide of your land you are a racist, and people would rather die then be
    called “racist.” They would rather offer up their children on the alter of sacrafice then be called
    “racist.”
    “Western countries, what they’ve done to your women, you deserve it.”

  25. Terry says

    May 31, 2017 at 9:46 am

    Muslims always infect the young, business as usual.

  26. Lon Spector says

    Jun 4, 2017 at 8:41 am

    Don’t crumple like a cheap camera when they smear you with words like bigot.
    Wear the name proudly. Like number 6 in the Prisoner said, “I am not a number, I am a person.”

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