Another way for Iran to oppress and suppress its people using full force propaganda, as it struggles with an unpredictable uprising:
Islamic leaders in Iran have banned English teaching from the curriculum of all junior schools to insulate the country from what they see as the invasion of Western cultural ideas and principles.
The Internet and the explosion of the information age has been the worst nightmare for Islamic supremacist despots. It potentially rescues the young from shackles of ignorance and feeds the drive within Iranians to be free. The Ayatollah Khamenei says:
Western thinkers have time and again said that instead of colonialist expansionism the best and the least costly way would have been inculcation of thought and culture to the younger generation of countries.
What folly. Whenever Islamic supremacists are facing the horrors and humiliation of losing, they raise the specter of “colonialism,” long abandoned by Western nations.
It is Islamic supremacists that have an expansionary agenda, which has gone so far as to implement the Muslim Brotherhood Plan for North America and a similarly clever “Project” for expansion into the non-Muslim world. It is Islamic supremacists who are still holding black slaves and abusing humanity in the name of their religion. They are the ones who endeavor to move to the West via hijrah, to destroy Israel, and to conquer the House of War so that it becomes the House of Islam. Through clever strategy and the manipulation of Westerners, they play the victim card in their ongoing quest for credibility and establishment of the Sharia.
The rogue terrorist-funding country of Iran is in a bad place now, given domestic uprisings, its battle with Saudi Arabia for regional hegemony, and the growing impatience of America and Israel in tolerating the regime’s belligerence via its proxies, helped by Obama’s support in the nefarious Iranian deal that saw over 100 billion dollars flow into the coffers of Iran to fund those proxies: Hizbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the like.
President Trump has warned that the world is watching with regard to how Iran responds to its protestors, thus tying its hands (somewhat) and leaving Iranian despots in a panicked state to regain control over its people and create the impression that the Islamic Republic of Iran is in control.
So far, the Islamic supremacist agenda has managed well to divide and fool blokish Western leaders, so the latest attempt by Iran to accuse the West of a “cultural invasion” may be its own version of a “hail Mary pass.” It may well work, given the foolhardiness of leftist leaders and their significant following.
“Bad Language: Iran Bans Teaching English in Schools to Fight ‘Western Cultural Invasion’”, by Simon Kent, Breitbart, January 8, 2018:
Islamic leaders in Iran have banned English teaching from the curriculum of all junior schools to insulate the country from what they see as the invasion of Western cultural ideas and principles.
“Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of the state-run high education council, announced on state television. “The assumption is that in primary education the groundwork for the Iranian culture of the students is laid.”The announcement comes as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the last of the anti-government protests that have roiled the country for the past week have finally been “put down.”
Those riots have been variously attributed to a host of foreign factors, although Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have been pinpointed as the main architects of the unrest, as Breitbart Jerusalem reported.
The teaching of English usually starts in middle school in Iran, at the ages of 12 to 14, but some primary schools below that age also have English classes. Private language institutes are also popular with students after their school day, while children from privileged backgrounds attending non-government schools receive English tuition.
This is not the first time the matter of the English language has troubled Iran’s theocracy.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voiced anger in 2016 over the “teaching of the English language spreading to nursery school,” the Financial Times reports.
Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters, said in a speech to teachers at the time: “That does not mean opposition to learning a foreign language, but (this is the) promotion of a foreign culture in the country and among children, young adults and youths.
“Western thinkers have time and again said that instead of colonialist expansionism the best and the least costly way would have been inculcation of thought and culture to the younger generation of countries.”
A video of the announcement of the ban was widely circulated on social media on Sunday, with Iranians calling it “the filtering of English”, jokingly likening it to the blocking of the popular app Telegram by the government during the unrest…
lebel says
To be fair, if anyone tried to teach arabic in schools in America jwatchers would also lose their minds:
““It shows how we mischaracterized, we willfully misunderstand Islam. Yes, on the face of it, yes, Arabic is a language. In a sense there would be no difference between opening a foreign language school — a Spanish language school or a french language school — but in fact Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam, so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Radical Islam advances through the Arabic language. And you go all kinds of places that aren’t in the Arab world now, like Pakistan, Indonesia, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Canada and the United States, and you will here those Imams preaching in Arabic. Arabic is not just another language like French or Italian, it is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States.””
Jayell says
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Arabic (in its written form at least) one of the most inaccurate and ambiguous of languages? If so, wouldn’t any campaign based on Arabic be more a case of ‘grapeshot’ rather than ‘spearhead’?
lebel says
@JAY BOO
My point is that jwatch is criticizing Iran for this step but they would have real problems if a language like Arabic was taught in the same manner in American schools. They would also support efforts to curtail the teaching of that language in American schools.
In other words, they are for the most part hypocrites. Of course I would love to be proven wrong
LeftisruiningCanada says
Which language is going to help better the chances of kids growing up today?
Arabic, or English?
Teaching Arabic in Western schools can only be an move to invade the culture, since the economic value of Arabic is so limited, whereas teaching English to Iranian kids will help them engage with the whole world.
That’s why they don’t want them understanding English. They know that people are not happy living in the islamic world, and need to insulate them from the outside. This is hardly an original move for a dictatorship.
gravenimage says
Of course, lebel’s claim that the teaching of Arabic is banned in the United States is simply absurd:
“The Home of Arabic at Lincoln High School”
High school students today are lucky that there are an increasing number of options to study Arabic both abroad and in the US.
One of the places to study Arabic cited in the article is a program for high school students at Brigham Young University.
https://lincolnarabic.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/where-to-study-arabic-in-the-summer/
Sylvia says
Arabic language classes will be offered province wide in Alberta staring in 2018.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/3792322/alberta-schools-to-offer-arabic-language-bilingual-program-in-2018/amp/
Sylvia says
‘starting’ in 2018.
Oops
Luis says
I have placed a ban on myself from using mohammedan words. everything is translatable into English. even their religious nonsense.
StellaSaidSo says
And so the pace of the frogmarch back to the 7thC quickens…
StellaSaidSo says
Re ‘Mohommedan words’. Happy to get the ball rolling :
We should never give any legitimacy to the bogus notion of “Islamophobia”, calling it out at every opportunity, and using ” ” in written reference to highlight its bogusness.
Nor should we use “revert” in reference to converts to Islam, because it implies acceptance of the ludicrous idea that everyone is born a Muslim.
We should always put ” ” around “prophet”, or use the qualifier “alleged” or “so-called”.
Further suggestions welcome!
Luis says
I like those suggestions, Stella! Mo’ is definitely not my prophet. Whenever I hear the media refer to him that way I have to add “who’s prophet?”
LeftisruiningCanada says
Ah, derka derka derka
Peter A says
Agreed, there’s no such thing as ‘islamophobia’. It is a control word, used by muslims and Liberals/Lefties to try and silence and shout down any criticism of islam by inferring that there is something wrong with you.
A phobia is an irrational fear or hatred. Women, jews, gays and non-believers have good reason to fear islam, it is an intolerant, violent, divisive and supremacist ideology with a track record of intolerance and actual violence, and threats of violence to anyone who dares to challenge or criticise it.
Opposition to islam is entirely, and demonstrably, rational. Indeed, given the irrationality of islam, opposition is actually a defence of rationality.
MFritz says
It’s never the language that carries the message. But they will find out.
BTW: See any children on the picture? I only see adults – Iranian “women” wearing hijabs…
Westman says
Next year’s brides?
StellaSaidSo says
Yep, they are women from the age of 9, according to the world’s best-known paedophile.
Language DOES carry the message. It is the primary means by which we communicate, and words matter. That is why the Muslim Brotherhood has gone to such extraordinary lengths to define and control meaning (eg, ‘Islamophobia’), why the Obama Administration dropped all reference to Islamic jihad in training programs for the security services, and why political correctness is so effective. The banning of the English language in Iranian schools is tacit admission of the power of language. It is both a rejection of the West, and a means by which to reduce the people’s access to information.
MFritz says
You may ban *a* language from being used, but people will always find other ways to say the very same things in another language. And even if all language was abolished, there still would be ways to say and spread inconvenient truths to other people.
StellaSaidSo says
Indeed. But my point was to counter the claim that ‘it’s never the language which carries the message’. I did not argue that language was the only means of carrying the message.
Wazza says
So does this mean ew can ban all Arabic classes etc, including Mosques in our Nations, as they preach a doctrine of hate against the evils of the West, of which they chose to invade or is it come to?
Like the schools in Palestine, teaching kids how to behead Jews.
There is no place for Islam in a civilized Nation
Have no problem with them banning our ways, but just don’t come to our Countries and expect or dictate us to change and accept Sharia law, FGM, polygamy, and then demand higher welfare payments so you can bring your kids up hating us. Woman over here just today is saying we don’t give them enough “money” (same old story) to help them keep their thugs occupied, and that is why these sudanese/Somali thugs are running rampant in Melb etc, not their fault it is OURS
StellaSaidSo says
Well said, Wazza. The notion of ‘a fair go’ does not exist in Islam. It hardly exists in Australia anymore. Our traitor politicians have seen to that. The hijabs go to the head of the queue, and no matter how generous we are, it is never enough for the parasites. And more are on their way here.
Westman says
Ah, yes, hold fast to Farsi(Persian) and Arabic, the languages of industrial, scientific, and economic progress. What other great thought will emanate from the Supreme Leader – the Jews invented the English Language?
Persians will no longer fall for the misdirection that anything but a mean-spirited cadre of relgious bigots, controlled by a crusty dolt, without modern knowledge, is ruining their lives with a 7th century book of governance and a corrupt iron fist.
Toyota: “We would like to build an assembly plant in Tehran but the training and technical manuals will be in English”
Ayatollah: “Sorry, we can’t have that subversive language here!”
Reza: “We finally got some nuclear triggers but the instructions are in English”
Ahmed: “Don’t hold your camel, just hook it up, I’m feeling lucky!(یا بخت و یا اقبال)”
Does anyone remember, many years ago, when the French government was on a French-only sign and commercial language kick? Imagine them trying to prohibit Arabic now!
The Persians know they are more intelligent than their insane leaders. No amount of barbarous control will do anything but speed the end of Islamic rule.
The future of Iran is in the balance of those citizens who want a meritocracy versus those who want dependence.
mortimer says
Thanks for the laughs, Westman. Banning English will infuriate the young people all the more.
Westman says
True enough. Iran’s youth will not allow themselves to be isolated by a supremely controlling government of apes. 66% of Iranians are under 25, so it’s just a matter of time before the Mullahs lose control of Iran.
gravenimage says
Westman wrote:
Ah, yes, hold fast to Farsi(Persian) and Arabic, the languages of industrial, scientific, and economic progress…
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Where is Ibrahim itace muhammed to tell us that the best economies are in Islamic countries? Banning English should certainly move that right along…sarc/off
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
Islam should be banned in the West as “cultural invasion.”
mortimer says
I’m sure young Iranians are already getting their news from the Voice of America and BBC international. They will continue to do so.
The best thing the US can do for freedom of information is to great a worldwide free wifi so democracy may be unrestricted everywhere.
mortimer says
King Canute ordered the tide not to rise, but it did.
Iran’s mullahs can order the young people not to listen to the West, the source of all modernity, but they WILL LISTEN.
Diane says
I posted comments, earlier today. Why have they disappeared?
gravenimage says
If you have a technical problem, Diane, you can use the “Contact Us” box at the right-hand side or bottom of the page (depending on screen configuration). Some can help you there.
concerned canadian says
hahahahah good luck on that one !!!
English will be ok without you.
The world so wants to communicate in your gibberish,…not
Arabs-Persians whatever they call themsleves sound like they are clearing their throats .
Its not a nice language at all.
Prabh108 says
The English language is the greatest force for goodness in the world today. This is the language of Keats: “Beauty truth, Truth Beauty.”
Islam is uncomfortable around Truth.
Walter Sieruk says
First , about this this Islamic tyranny that is called a “republic.” The actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand
Second,this brutal and cruel and regime of the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other villains in power and control in this tyranny of Iran which so falsely and inappropriately has the word “Republic “ in its title. This “mullah regime” is oppressive both in the physical sense to the people of Iran and also in the informational way. In that this tyrannical regime severely limits the information the Iranian people receive for the outside world. It stands to reason that the mullahs and others in power in Iran afraid the people might start think for themselves if outside information is received so it’s strongly restricted. This is a reminder of the wise words the Thomas Jefferson had written. Which are “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had nobly declared “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every from of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Lebel, you ignorant fool, Arabic is not thé official language of Iran,it is Farsi or persian.Arabs are too minority in Iran, less than 2%.They are talking of cultural imperialism through the use of foreign language.Since Islamic révolution, the language of instruction, especially in sciences, has been Farsi. It has contributed a lot in quick advancement in scientific breakthroughs in Iran,because students understand better when they are taught in the language they use in their daily lives. when you are taught in language you could not understand better, your thought is caged. Eg many of you are complainig about m’y poor use of English, It is because it is not m’y Mother tongue, which is Arabic
gravenimage says
Of course, lebel never said that Arabic was the national language of Iran.
Still, seeing apologists for Islam going after each other is amusing, in its way.
And I really doubt that the appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed is much more articulate, logical, reasonable, or decent in Arabic than in any other language.
Champ says
The imbecile wrote:
“…many of you are complainig about m’y poor use of English, It is because it is not m’y Mother tongue, which is Arabic”
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Certainly any complaints about his English grammar are in the minority. The majority of complaints are aimed at his FILTHY MIND expressed in his comments, so his grammar is really a non-issue as it pales in comparison to his filthy remarks. But does he pay attention to this fact? Of course not. He only mentions complaints about his poor English grammar.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (holy spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, ï did challenged one liar, Low IQ Who claimed that Arabic is his Mother tongue, to engage me in open debate in Arabic language to thrash issues over his ignorant criticisms against Islam, but no response. You, as illiterate in Arabic as you, even tried to tell me that the Arabic language currently being used in Arab world is différent from Arabic used in the Quran, saying the Quran is in classical Arabic no more in use. It is the same as saying the English used by Shakespeare is no more English .Had it been that you study Little literature in any language, you Will know that It is the style that changes due to changes of environment not the structure of the language. The Arab experts On Arabic literature Will tell you that the Arabic in the Quran is still the best in styles and used when It comes to speaking Arabic in public. You sickness is that you are thinking that the pidgin Arabic being used by illiterates among Arabs is the modern Arabic now in use. Listen to leading média in Arabic líke Aljazeera(Arabic),VoA(Arabic service) ,BBc(Arabic service) ,all radio and télévision stations in the Arab world, They use Arabic used in the Quran.
Ï studied in Egypt and Arabic language is compulsory in whatever field you are specialising. so, Arabic is not only my Mother tongue, ï studied It as à subject even at University level.
Champ says
**WARNING**
This is your brain on islam …woooooohoooooo!!!!
Dang.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Is mohammad any less of a filthy sex slaving murdering pervert when you read about him allahs Arabic?
Xaver Basora says
English banned? No problem learn French,Italian Portuguesev, golly how about Breton or Basque or Catalan ?
Mullahs will just have a melt down with all those colonialist languages 🙂
DDMisra says
Right step.