“‘Whoever makes the graves of the prophets and righteous ones into mosques is evil,’ is the title of a seventh-grade textbook.”
This idea isn’t some Wahhabi invention. It comes from statements attributed to Muhammad in the Hadith:
“It was narrated from Aishah that the Prophet said: ‘May Allah curse people who take the graves of their prophets as Masjids [mosques].'” (an-Nasa’i 21.230.2046)
“Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Messenger said, ‘May Allah’s curse be on the Jews for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets.'” (Bukhari 8.86.437)
Nor is it a Wahhabi idea that “the hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.” That, also, comes from Muhammad:
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: ‘The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.'” (Muslim 6985)
“Saudi children are taught in school to hate ‘unbelievers,'” translated from “Saudische Kinder werden in der Schule zum Hass auf «Ungläubige» erzogen,” by Christian Weisflog, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 13, 2017 (thanks to Othmar):
Saudi Arabia likes to praise itself as a leader in the fight against Islamic terror. In the school books, however, the children are still being taught who is “disbelieving” and “perverse” and therefore has to be fought.
Since the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia, with its Wahhabi state religion, is regarded as a sponsor of Islamic terror. 15 of the 19 aircraft hijackers were Saudi citizens. The United States then asked Riyadh to reform its religious education in the schools. But as a new study by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch shows, hatred of the “unbelievers” is still preached in schoolbooks in Saudi Arabia.
Hate against other Muslims, Christians and Jews
The al-Tawhid (monotheism) is a 45-book teaching tool that not only teaches that Christians and Jews as second-class people, but also condemns Islamic schools of thought such as the Shiite or the mystical current of Sufism. For example, the construction of shrines or mosques over the graves of religious personalities is condemned, a practice which can be observed among Shiites and Sufis. From the Wahhabi point of view, such veneration is a reprehensible act of polytheism. Those who do this have fallen away from Islam and are eternally condemned, teach the Wahhabi textbooks. “Whoever makes the graves of the prophets and righteous ones into mosques is evil,” is the title of a seventh-grade textbook. In another place, Sufism is called a “perverse path.”
In the eyes of the Saudi Ministry of Education, Christians and Jews are regarded as “the original unbelievers.” Every Muslim, who doubts about his belief is himself a disbeliever, is the teaching material for the fifth class. The books also warn the Muslims not to show themselves loyal to “unbelievers.” The most important thing in this context is the statement on the Last Day: “The hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”…
mortimer says
Saudi Schools are still teaching the ideology of AL WALAA WAL BARAA … hatred directed against the dirty kufaar ‘for the sake of Allah’ and jihad-warfare against them.
Despite assurances in the State Department human rights report that the Saudi government agreed to introduce “revised and newly written textbooks across the curriculum for most school grades,” these texts continue to promote violence against apostates and “infidels” of all stripes. Militant jihad is justified to “spread Islam” and exalted as “a profitable trade,” which “saves from painful punishment.”
– Dogmatic lessons in Saudi middle and high school textbooks instruct that many Muslims should be killed for their beliefs, including blasphemers, Christian converts, and those who merely “doubt” the Prophet’s truth, as well as Shiites and Sufis, who are condemned as “polytheists” for praying at gravesites. Christians, Hindus and those “practicing witchcraft” are also to be fought and killed.
– Jews are demonized, dehumanized, and targeted for violence. A 9th grade textbook, for example, states: “It is part of God’s wisdom that the struggle between the Muslims and the Jews should continue until the hour [of judgment] … The good news for Muslims is that God will help them against the Jews in the end.”
– History lessons blame Jews for all perceived problems, even the theory of evolution because, as an 11th grade text asserts, “Darwin was a Jew.”
– A 10th grade history lesson, in invoking the “leading astray” language of the Koran’s opening verse, implies that that verse refers to Jews, teaching that “God Almighty impugned them and pitched upon them humiliation and wretchedness and led them astray.”
– In elaborating Jews’ “condemnable qualities,” a 12th grade textbook appears to sanctify both the Holocaust and the Inquisition:
– “For since the Jews were scattered sundries they never knew peace with a single nation because of their proclivity for deceit, lying and conspiracy. Nothing proves this more than the Muslims’ experience with them in Medina as the Prophet (PBUH) deported them and recommended that they be driven out from the Arabian Peninsula and as happened with them in other countries such as Germany, Poland, Spain and others
– All of Israel is called “occupied Islamic territory” (as are Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, much of Spain and the Balkans.) They justify a general jihad against it, such as in this 8th grade history text: “The whole [Muslim] nation lives in a Jihad against international Zionism manifested by the State of Jewish gangs’ called Israel established on the land of Palestine wrongfully and in transgression.”
– Saudi textbooks are a threat to American security, Middle East peace and world peace. Saudi Arabia continues to promote violent jihad. Saudi Arabia is exporting jihad.
John A. Marre says
Saudi Arabia has a very special relationship with the government of this country. It was proven under Bush, after 9/11, when he gave them special protection.
Obviously Obama bowed down before them, as expected.
Trump went there and gave inspiring speeches.
Saudi Arabia finances the spread of Islam, and in direct consequence of that, the spread of terrorism.
Phillip McAllister says
When I was in Saudi, we had a Lebanese translator, Tawfik. In Dhahran, while walking past the mosque on the naval base together, we were startled by a nerve-jangling tirade coming from the exterior speakers of the mosque and I asked him what the muttawah was so upset about (they used to leave the microphone and external speakers on during the sermon). The voice was loud, angry and relentless. Tawfik laughed when he told me what the muttawah was screaming about. He was telling the young naval recruits who we taught on the base, not to become involved with infidel women. If they do, when they die, they will be buried where the animals are buried. And by infidel he did not only mean Christian or Jewish or even Hindu women. He meant women from any place other than Saudi Arabia. They hate us, of that there is no question, but they also absolutely mistrust one another. And for cultural and religious, if not purely political reasons, they maintain a façade of unity. The Saudis are the Beverly Hillbillies of the Arab muslim world. They fell into their wealth, ironically, like a pig in poop. There was and there is NOTHING in Saudi Arabia — aside from oil — that anyone in the rest of the civilized world wants or needs. No art. No literature. No criticism. No introspection. No love. No doubt. Only that barbaric, seditious death cult called “islam.” And culture? Don’t get me started. The only culture in Saudi Arabia is in the yogurt.
balam says
Sr.Winston Churchill wrote that ISLAM IN A MUSLIM WAS LIKE RABIES IN A DOG. Hence ,just one has to beware of rabid dogs!!!
Jack Diamond says
A most excellent travelogue and summation. Should be in the Michelin Guide.
zachary says
It is my hope that Westerners will wise up before it is too late these Barbaric, Demonic Creatures can’t be converted or tolerant of Non Muslims & never will.
Lydia says
But all of this can’t be genocide of course, because after all; that would be…
(drumroll…) “islamophobic”!
(sarcasm intended)
Lydia says
Claiming that it is genocide, that is.
Native jo says
Someone better tell them they are the religion of peace and they aren’t practicing the real Islam. Or is that reserved for us?
FYI says
The Two chief commandments are missing in islam and so there is no genuine love of God or fellow man.
Such hatred for the Jews and Christians is in direct violation of God’s laws.
Because these religious people do not welcome and love the truth enough to be saved
{2 Thessalonians 2 v 10-11}
“And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false”
Feden says
Islam at it’s core. They are teaching what’s written in the the allegedly holy Qur’an and religion of peace.