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Saudi 5th-grade textbook: The “Hour” will come after Muslims “kill the Jews”

Sep 15, 2017 2:40 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Jihad Watch recently posted an article about Saudi schools “teaching Muhammad’s statements that Jews and Christians are accursed and Muslims must kill Jews.” Such teachings begin as early as first grade. Now, additional information has emerged that “an official textbook for fifth graders published by the Saudi Ministry of Education states that the approach of the Day of Resurrection will be recognizable by a series of signs. “The Hour will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews, and Muslims will kill the Jews.”

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s constitution is the Quran and the Sunnah. Article 6 of Saudi law states that “Citizens shall pledge allegiance to the King on the basis of the Book of God and the Prophet’s Sunnah, as well as on the principle of ‘hearing is obeying] both in prosperity and adversity, in situations pleasant and unpleasant.”

This critical piece of information about the virulently anti-Semitic 5th grade official Saudi textbook will likely be dismissed by Westerners despite its serious implications, since it does not fit into the widely held fantasy that jihad groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State are an aberration of Islam. Jews and all Westerners would do well to consider the fact that this textbook demonstrates the Saudi government’s truthful stance against Jews, such that it is even teaching youngsters the way of jihad by the sword against Jews.

“Saudi Arabia 5th-Grade Schoolbook: The ‘Hour’ Will Come After Muslims ‘Kill the Jews’”, by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, September 15, 2017:

Saudi Arabia has come under fire for using schoolbooks for children that disparage Christians as “unbelievers” and promise that the day of resurrection will not come until Muslims have fought and killed the Jews.

An official textbook for fifth graders published by the Saudi Ministry of Education states that the approach of the Day of Resurrection will be recognizable by a series of signs. “The Hour will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews, and Muslims will kill the Jews,” it declares.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), a U.S.-based advocacy group, Saudi Arabia’s religious studies curriculum “contains hateful and incendiary language toward religions and Islamic traditions that do not adhere to its interpretation of Sunni Islam,” including the labeling of Jews and Christians as unbelievers “with whom Muslims should not associate.”

Human Rights Watch undertook a comprehensive review of school religion books published by the Saudi Education Ministry for the 2016-17 school year. The curriculum, titled al-tawhid, or “Monotheism,” comprises 45 textbooks and student workbooks for the primary, middle, and secondary education levels.

The September 11, 2001 jihadist attacks that killed some 3,000 Americans provoked public outrage at the incendiary language in Saudi schoolbooks after it became known that 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi citizens. Saudi officials promised at the time to expunge the abusive language from its curriculum. A decade and a half later, however, some of this insulting and dangerous content is still a part of Saudi texts, HRW declared.

In February 2017, Saudi’s education minister acknowledged the need for a “broader curriculum overhaul” but offered no specifics as to when if ever such an overhaul would take place.

“As early as first grade, students in Saudi schools are being taught hatred toward all those perceived to be of a different faith or school of thought,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The lessons in hate are reinforced with each following year.”

Although the U.S. State Department has designated Saudi Arabia a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) ever since 2004, the American government has elected to waive the penalties, economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and travel and visa restrictions that accompany this designation.

During his speech in Riyadh in May 2017, President Donald Trump underscored the importance of religious liberty in the Middle East, while also announcing a massive $110 billion arms purchase by the Saudis as part of economic deals between the two countries totaling some $400 billion.

“For many centuries the Middle East has been home to Christians, Muslims and Jews living side-by-side,” he said. “We must practice tolerance and respect for each other once again—and make this region a place where every man and woman, no matter their faith or ethnicity, can enjoy a life of dignity and hope.”

In its recent report, HRW painted a dour picture of the state of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, beginning with the indoctrination of schoolchildren.

“The curriculum reserves its harshest criticisms for Jews, Christians, and people of other faiths,” HRW declared, and the texts often refer to them as kuffar, or “unbelievers.”

One fifth-grade textbook refers to Jews and Christians as among the “original unbelievers” and declares that it is the duty of Muslims to excommunicate them: “For whoever does not [excommunicate them], or whoever doubts their religious infidelity is himself an unbeliever.”

The proper attitude toward such unbelievers is “hostility and antagonism,” the textbook states, while warming Muslims never to join with them in their celebrations.

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  1. John A. Marre says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    Saudia Arabia has a very special relationship with the government of this country, and it didn’t start with Trump. They are allowed to sponsor terrorism in return for – what? oil?

    • John Forbes says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 4:28 am

      The BUSH’s & Clintons & Others before cut deals with the SAUDI;s long ago.
      The other thing that many seem to not understand is the FINANCIAL Power of the Saudi administration & the private investment strength of the Royal Family!
      The WEST has sold DEBT to the oil rich states for decades in return for cheap oil & they now hold vast amounts of Treasury bills & cash !
      The WEST in the mean time has been funding WELFARE & paying for refugees !
      The OIL wealth has huge influence in Western Politics & the CLINTONS & OBAMA & OTHERS are well in with all of this !
      This in part is a Big piece of the problem & not easily dealt with !

  2. Wellington says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    Looking at the photo above, I thought I might as well be looking at a photo of the Hitler Youth.

    • Westman says

      Sep 15, 2017 at 4:36 pm

      Very similar, Wellington.

      That looks like the Royal Family pattern and colors, so these might be children of the “pure” race; being prepped for world domination and the annihilation of the Jews. So far, the domination, via oil, seems to be very effective.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 15, 2017 at 6:28 pm

        Instructive, Westman, as I know you know (and as many others do, for instance Stephanie who responded to my post as well), how eerily alike Islam and Nazism are.

        Indeed, and as I have long asserted, Islam is the prototype for Nazism. Thus no coincidence, no none at all, that the only major religion Hitler ever expressed admiration for was Islam (Hitler also admired Shintoism because of its martial element but Shintoism could hardly be called a major world religion since it was uniquely confined to Japan). Albert Speer mentioned this admiration for Mo’s creed by Hitler in his work, Inside The Third Reich.

        And, so tellingly, this admiration for Islam by Hitler has been noted and appreciated by the Islamic world to this day, as has his slaughter of the Jews. Mein Kampf is still a best seller in many Muslim nations. I rather look upon it as the secular equivalent of the Koran.

        Damning, all this, in the highest degree. Only an ignorant person, a fool or a liar could possibly contend otherwise. Unfortunately, ignoramuses, fools and liars abound.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 16, 2017 at 12:10 am

          Yes–Islam is totalitarian, just as Fascism and Communism are.

        • mortimer says

          Sep 16, 2017 at 9:29 am

          Islam was founded as the DYNASTY of the HASHEMITE CLAN and is per se racist. The foundational motives for joining Islam were 1) cult of semi-divine personality 2) plunder 3) expansionism of empire 4) racial/religious scapegoating 5) sexual opportunities 6) dying a glorious death 7) sadomasochism 8) women seen mainly as incubators of the master race.

          The above list applies equally to foundational Islam and to Nazism.

          It is doubtful that Hitler was well-read and knew the details of early Islam. Hitler apparently read (or skimmed) a book written by an Indian jihadist and expressed admiration for it. During dinner chats, Hitler expressed admiration for Islam more than once. Psychiatrist Carl Jung asked whether Hitler would found a new Islam.

          Though Nazis did not themselves see themselves as Muslims, many Muslims saw themselves as fascists including the Muslim Brotherhood which is the virtual Egyptian copy of the Nazi Party.

  3. Japetto Donatelli says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    It isn’t only the Saudis who teach Jew hatred to their kids, it’s ubiquitous throughout the muslim world. Here’s a tiny glimpse into islam’s school of hate:

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 12:13 am

      True, Japetto–all of Islam teaches this.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:46 am

      • Japetto Donatelli says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 10:47 am

        The parallels can’t be denied. Islam=Nazism in so many ways.

  4. Westman says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 4:24 pm

    Not mentioned here is what they are teaching these children about the Shiah “twelvers”. That is inter-sect animosity is indicative of the fact that Islam can never be a “religion of peace” – even if every human is a Muslim.

    The Quran spews hatred at the Jews and the apologists go find a hadith “that we accept” and claim otherwise. However, there is no generally-applied apologetic for inter-Muslim-sect warfare that will justify Islam as a religion of peace in the eyes of the West.

    With multiple sects, Islam believers, the “Ummah”, cannot even declare to have a singular “it” – so there cannot be, “THE religion of peace”; just warring factions calling themselves, “The Religion Of Peace”. De Trop.

    • Wellington says

      Sep 15, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      Seconded, Westman.

  5. Geoffrey Britain says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    We are witness to Satan’s future companions in hell.

  6. James says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 6:09 pm

    Saudi Barbaria badly needs to be nuked…again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…and again…. Then cut it out of Arabia, break it up, and shoot it into the sun.

  7. Robert_k says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 6:40 pm

    How can one oppose these Saudi school texts? Isn’t that Islamophobia and Racism against the Saudis? Besides if that is in the Sharia it is good as Linda Sarsour says, “Under Sharia we would have interest free credit cards”.

  8. gravenimage says

    Sep 15, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    Saudi 5th-grade textbook: The “Hour” will come after Muslims “kill the Jews”
    …………………..

    Perfectly Islamic call to genocide. Why are we still pretending that these barbarians are our allies?

  9. Relic says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 12:37 am

  10. Mark says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 8:32 am

    This documentary needs to be shared as fast and widely as possible. Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to his email before it is removed from Face book and YouTube. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

  11. noanoa says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    S.A. (Sunnis) = Black Mamba
    Iran (Shiites) = Cobra

    Poisonous to Infidels !!!!

  12. Pong says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    Anti-semitism in islam majority countries is not a major problem, anti-semitism in the western countries is. It feeds anti-israel and by extension hatered of jewish people everywhere.
    During celebrations following the last elections in Ireland no irish flags could be seen, but plenty of PLO flags. Too many christians are still infected with anti-semitic virus.
    Hate crimes against the jews is increasing in Europe and US and far exceed hate crimes against the moslem in quantity and severity, but gets little attention. JW is the only blog I know of where anti-semitism is not tolerated.

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