Posted on 12/02/2011 5:36:06 AM PST by bayouranger
Textbooks used in Saudi Arabias schools contain virulent forms of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish bigotry that continue to fuel intolerance and violence around the globe, says a new report.
The problem is far greater than the five million students in Saudi Arabia who use these texts every day, said Nina Shea, director of the Washington-based Hudson Institutes Center for Religious Freedom.
Because of the Saudis great oil wealth, it is able to disseminate its textbooks far and wide, she wrote in the report, Ten Years On.
[These textbooks] are posted on the Saudi Education Ministrys website and are shipped and distributed free by a vast Saudi-sponsored Sunni infrastructure to many Muslim schools, mosques and libraries throughout the world.
This is not just hate mongering, its promoting violence, she said in an interview. It is exporting terrorism through textbooks.
Christians are referred to as swine and Jews as apes, while being blamed for much of the worlds ills.
(Excerpt) Read more at life.nationalpost.com ...
It was not a coincidence that 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 were Saudis, she added.
Ms. Shea, a human rights lawyer for 30 years, said a prime example of the texts influence can be seen in Indonesia, a country with a history of religious tolerance.
In 2005, Abdurrahman Wahid, the then-president, wrote about the danger of the Saudis exported ideology, saying it was fueling a well-financed, multifaceted global movement that operates like a juggernaut in much of the developing world, and even among immigrant Muslim communities in the West.
In the report, Ms. Shea cites dozens of examples of inflammatory language used against several groups, including Bahais.
The following excerpts come from supposedly revised books produced in 2010-11.
* From a Grade 8 text: The Apes are the people of the Sabbath, the Jews; the Swine are the infidels of the communion of Jesus, the Christians. * Suggested lesson for Grade 8 class: As an exercise, students can spend time listing Jews condemnable qualities. * From a Grade 10 text concerning the vicious anti-Semitic tract The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, written in 19th-century Czarist Russia: These are secret decisions that aim at achieving Jewish domination of the world. They were exposed in the 19th century and the Jews have tried to deny them, but evidence exists to prove their validity and their reproduction by the Elders of Zion. * For Grade 11: Bahaism: is one of the most destructive esoteric sects in the modern age.
Ms. Shea said the books are often exported by the Saudi education ministry to poor Muslim communities around the world who need textbooks.
Last year, the BBC said they were being used by 5,000 Muslim students in Britain. Some of them have turned up in Islamic schools in the U.S., she said.
And because the texts are posted online, they are easily available.
Ms. Shea is especially critical of the U.S. State Department for not exerting enough pressure on the Saudis to change the texts. It talks about getting the Saudis to reform, but does little, she says.
In the latest report, her fourth on the subject, she says four years ago the Saudis gave a solemn promise to undertake a program of reform to eliminate all passages that disparage or promote hatred toward any religion or religious groups.
I think it is a lack of guts and a certain amount of naiveté because [State Department] staffers believe what the Saudis tell them. But in the end were hooked on their oil, thats what it comes down to. A spokesman from the State Department refused to respond.
So basically they are using the same textbooks as California.
Saudi Arabia is not now, and never has been, a friend of the United States!!
[I know, I know, I’m preaching to the choir]
If Christians are ‘swine’, then muslims are not allowed to touch us, right? ...or get our blood on them, right?
So what’s up with all the terrorist attacks?
These morons don’t even believe their own gibberish.
The U.S. Department of Energy was started during the Carter Administration. It was created to get us off foreign oil. The department has grown into a monster, costs us billions, but still hasn't served it's purpose. We still aren't drilling our own.
I was thinking the same thing.
Sounds just like the propaganda our school system is teaching out children, into the anti-american, ‘green’ bs, animals are better than humans, and ... oh yeah, this would turn into a rant if I continued. God Bless our country.
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