Posted on 11/14/2003 12:11:31 AM PST by JohnHuang2
WAR ON TERROR
U.S. to finance Muslim schools
$157 million to 'improve' education in Indonesia
Posted: November 14, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.comWhile the United States government spends billions fighting Islamic terrorism worldwide, it has offered Indonesia $157 million dollars for use by state-owned and Muslim schools.
Indonesian minister Jusuf Kalla announced the U.S. assistance yesterday following a meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, Ralph Boyce.
"The assistance will be used to improve the quality of human resources and infrastructure of government-owned schools and religious schools [Islamic boarding schools]," the Jakarta Post quotes the minister as saying.
Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, with more than 180 million.
According to the paper, allocation of the U.S. funds will be decided by Kalla, the coordinating minister for People's Welfare, in cooperation with the religious affairs minister and the education minister.
Boyce said the U.S. assistance is purely aimed at improving education, to make the quality and capability of government-owned schools and Islamic boarding schools equal, reports the Jakarta Post.
He stressed the money would not interfere in the curriculum of Indonesian schools.
The U.S. aid was initially pledged Oct. 22 by President George W. Bush in a joint press conference with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri at the Bali International Airport.
"The success of Indonesia as a pluralistic and democratic state is essential to the peace and prosperity of this region," said Bush. "Terrorists who claim Islam as their inspiration defile one of the world's great faiths. Murder has no place in any religious tradition, must find no home in Indonesia.
"The United States strongly supports a healthy democracy in Indonesia, for the sake of your own people and for the sake of peace," Bush continued. "We'll also support Indonesia's efforts to build an education system that teaches values and discourages extremism."
Muslim schools in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, other Muslim countries, and even France are often cited as hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
According to the International Crisis Group, a British think tank, a network of Muslim boarding schools in Indonesia called Pesantren teaches the message of jihad and has become an easy recruiting ground for the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiah. The group was formed in the 1980s by two Indonesian clerics with the goal of creating a pan-Islamic state.
Students at these Muslim schools are taught they have an obligation to try to make the dream of an Islamic state come true, according to Salahudin Wahid, a vice-chairman of Indonesia's largest moderate Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama.
"Some of them then come to think the ends justify the means, even violence. But they forget that Islam is a peaceful religion. It is very clearly stated in the Quran that we cannot kill people, not even ourselves," Wahid told the BBC.
Indonesia isn't immune to the fallout of the jihadism taught at these boarding schools, but has itself suffered terrorist attacks. A double bombing at a busy nightclub frequented by American tourists on the island of Bali killed 202 people in October 2002. In August, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed van into the front entrance of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, killing 14 people and injuring nearly 150 others. And last month, a dozen or more Christians in Poso, Indonesia, were murdered and hundreds forced to flee their homes following attacks by Muslim extremists.
The Bali and Marriott Hotel attacks have been blamed on Jemaah Islamiah. Three brothers who taught at and attended an Islamic school in Tenggulun, a small village near the coast of East Javabeen, were convicted as the key players involved in the Bali bombings. Investigators believe one of the brothers, called Mukhlas, is a senior member of Jemaah Islamiah.
Go right ahead and give them our money, so they can be educated on how to hate and kill the infidels.
Demise of the Infidel brought and paid for by the Infidel 101.
Indonesia? Millions of U.S. taxpayer's dollars funding Islam?
Does this sound familiar?
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam's 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020 – a plan revealed in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Anis Shorrosh, author of ''Islam Revealed'' and ''The True Furqan,'' is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.
''The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020,'' Shorrosh says. ''Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?''
1. Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with statewide and nationwide hate-crime bills.
2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African-Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only. What they fail to tell African-Americans is that it was Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves. In fact, the Arabic word for black and slave is the same, ''Abed.''
3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.
4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office to bring about favorable legislation toward Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.
5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the Internet as possible by buying the related corporations or a controlling stock.
6. Yield to the fear of the imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America – black gold. America’s economy depends on oil and 41 percent of it comes from the Middle East.
7. Yell ''foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un- American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran'' anytime Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.
8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions and get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims as medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical companies. (Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?) Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way.
9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:
10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1,500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are currently 300 exclusively Muslim schools in the U.S. which teach loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution. In January of 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Washington mailed 4,500 packets of the Quran and videos promoting Islam to America's high schools – free of charge. Saudi Arabia would not allow the U.S. to reciprocate.
11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish ''Centers for Islamic studies'' with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher-education institutions.
12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, when in truth, Islam hijacked the terrorists.
13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.
14. Nullify America's sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans with reports of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls.
15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not America's justice system.
16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S., but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.
17. Raise interest in Islam on America's campuses by insisting freshman take at least one course on Islam.
18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by Internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media.
19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.
20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the U.S. by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.
Shorrosh is a member of the Oxford Society of Scholars, has traveled in 76 countries, and is a lecturer and producer of TV documentaries. ''Islam Revealed'' is a bestseller now in its eighth printing. His forthcoming 10th book, from which the 20-point plan is abridged, is titled ''Islam: A Threat or a Challenge.''
''The True Furqan'' is also available for viewing on Islam-Exposed.org. Shorrosh's new website is Focusing-on-Islam.com.
Whoops - there IT is! (It's NOT going unnoticed, either.)
Jeese, America must be a very rich country, indeed, to do that... unless, of course, Americas people are being EXPLOITED!.... WOT! a cuntry...
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