Posted on 05/28/2017 1:59:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
A NEW teaching aid that recommends schoolchildren as young as seven “write a letter to a terrorist” to help understand their motives has been condemned as “dangerous and misguided”.
The book, Talking About Terrorism, published weeks before the Manchester Arena atrocity, describes the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent members of the public as a “type of war”.
It tells primary age children that terrorists kill people because they believe they are being treated “unfairly and not shown respect”.
It gives examples of “terrorists” whose ideas then turn out to be right: “The Suffragettes used violence and were called terrorists,” it stated.
“Today many people think of them as brave women and admire their struggle for the right to vote.”
Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the letter task would confuse and potentially upset pupils.
He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
What violence did Suffragettes engage in?
Show your respect, bow down and bare your neck.
Insane
Were extreme suffragettes regarded as terrorists?
By Melissa Hogenboom BBC News 11 February 2012
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16945901
what a bunch of horse manure. What is being taught is, if the children 'feel' that they are 'disrepected' violence and terrorism is an appropriate response, whether their perception of 'disrespect' is right or wrong.
In Islamic Europe it’s the thing to do.
EXCELLENT question!!! At least in the USA, suffragettes tended to be Republican and quite anti-abortion!
They did sit-in sorts of protests and chained themselves to the fences in front of the Home Secretary’s house. Might have thrown some tomatoes.
They also tended to go on hunger strikes in prison.
Yeah them suffragettes were evil. They sawed off a lot of men’s heads off in the furtherance do their cause. Their bombings, driving carriages into crowds, random stabbings and suicide bombings really got their point across. I’ll bet once those peaceful Islamists will stop their senseless killings too once they just get Sharia law imposed upon the whole world.
That was the contemporaneous Irish nationalists and anarchists. One of probably not allowed, today, to refer to these groups as historical examples of terrorists.
In Britain -— unlike in the USA-— there was a wing of roughly WWI-era woman suffragists who did engage in terrorism. They set bombs in streetside Post Office letterboxes and I think killed some people. If you google keywords like
Britain - suffragist - bombing
I think you’ll find more. They were a tiny minority and some had, I think, additional issues like anti-Empire and pro-Irish independence.
Well, there you go. One can always learn something new. I was thinking of the movement a generation earlier.
The most well known act of militancy was by Emily Davison who threw herself under the King's horse at Epsom Racecourse in June 1913. She died a few days later.
Ms. Davidson seems to have been unclear on the concept.
This recent book emphasizes the handful of bomb plots, which of course might have killed people, and more than one fizzled assassination conspiracy.
In summary, however, it seems the militant women's movement - overlapping, as you observed, with the Irish independence movement - was more dazzle than diamonds. Although you might disagree if it were your home-renovation which was torched.
That's the whole idea. The book was written by self-hating, Western civ-despising leftists who want us destroyed as much as the jihadis do.
The British government HATES female British children. They want them raped and/or murdered. Rotherham and Manchester. What else? What next?
The Crown also let young girls
be AUCTIONED and sold
near Gatwick for decades.
Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.
You are so right on all that. What a messed up way of thinking.
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