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June 26, 2006
Saudi Arabia: Islamic Teaching Still Calls Christians "Swine", Jews "Apes"
We reported on May 27 that a 29 page dossier compiled by Freedom House, entitled Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance had condemned the intolerance against non-Muslims presented in Saudi schools and textbooks.
Yesterday's Telegraph reports that despite bland platitudes made by Saudi officials about reform within education, in practice, nothing is being done to change the"curriculum of intolerance".
The Saudi foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, and Turki al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador to the US, have promised to revise the textbooks, but still the books remain, whose tracts condemn and vilify those who do not practice the strict Wahhabism of the House of Saud. And these books are still being disseminated around the world.
At the King Fahd Academy, in Acton, West London, 750 children are taught, using the same hate-filled books. Senior staff state that iit is not their business to commment.
Last month, the Saudi education minister, Abdullah al-Obeid, gave a joint press conference with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, where he announced proudly that there was Saudi school reform. He said: "The education reforms in Saudi Arabia go beyond textbook rewriting. They go into teacher training [and] the messages that are given to children in the formative years....The whole system of education is being transformed from top to bottom."
When asked of the offensive language in the textbooks, which includes such gems as "It is part of God's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the hour (of judgment)", the minister claimed "This is taken out."
The statements were made a few days before the official release of the Freedom House Report, and now the dossier's claims are being investigated in Riyadh. Al-Obeid said: "We do think some things need to be changed. There is some misunderstanding of some of the texts."
The Telegraph quotes Tanya Hsu, a political analyst in Riyadh who has close links to the education ministry, who claims there is anger in Saudi Arabia at what is seen as a propaganda campaign to tarnish the government's image. She states: "The charges are absolutely not true. We're really just looking at a few sentences and a few words. I don't know of any country in the world that doesn't have a few mischosen words in textbooks."
Children aged between five and sixteen are given the following test: "Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words (Islam, hellfire): Every religion other than ----- is false. Whoever dies outside of Islam enters -----."
Turki al-Faisal stated in a recent newspaper article: "We admit we have people in our midst who are bigots, who are intolerant and who see the world through a prism of 'us and them'. Are we working hard to change mindsets that encourage prejudice and intolerance? Yes, absolutely."
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at June 26, 2006 7:27 AM
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It is the teachings in Saudi textbooks that contribute to the creation of future terrorists.
Posted by: Christian ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 5, 2006 9:54 AM
True, but they are based on worse teachings, the Koran, the Hadiths and the example of the child-molesting "prophet" Mohammed.
Let's not forget that by the time he settled in Medina, Mo was a warmonger and a murderer. In one afternoon he slew the entire male membership of a local Jewish tribe, the Banu Qurayzah, and sold their womenfolk into slavery for the sexual gratification of his fellow warmongering bandits.
And look at the Koran:
"Slay the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them." - Sura 9, verse 5.
"Strike off disbelievers heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes." - Surah 8, verse 12.
Do not believe the so-called moderates. A moderate Muslim may be a nice person, but he or she is not following the Koran to the letter. The terrorists do...
Posted by: Giraldus Cambrensis at July 5, 2006 10:46 AM
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