Posted on 05/03/2004 4:55:16 PM PDT by Sun
Look who's teaching Johnny about Islam Saudi-funded Islamic activists have final say in shaping public-school lessons on religions
Posted: May 3, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- A top textbook consultant shaping classroom education on Islam in American public schools recently worked for a school funded and controlled by the Saudi government, which propagates a rigidly anti-Western strain of Islam, a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals.
The consultant, Susan L. Douglass, has also praised Pakistan's madrassa schools as "proud symbols of learning," even after the U.S. government blamed them for fueling the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Douglass, routinely described as a "scholar" or "historian," has edited manuscripts of world history textbooks used by middle and high school students across the country. She's also advised state education boards on curriculum standards dealing with world religion, and has helped train thousands of public school teachers on Islamic instruction.
In effect, she is responsible for teaching millions of American children about Islam, experts say, while operating in relative obscurity.
WorldNetDaily has learned that up until last year Douglass taught social studies at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., which teaches Wahhabism through textbooks that condemn Jews and Christians as infidels and enemies of Islam. Her husband, Usama Amer, still teaches at the grades 2-12 school, a spokeswoman there confirmed. Both are practicing Muslims.
Susan L. Douglass, CIE consultant
The Saudi government funds the school, which has a sister campus in Fairfax, Va.
"It is a school that is under the auspices of the Saudi Embassy," said Ali al-Ahmed, executive director of the Washington-based Saudi Institute, a leading Saudi opposition group. "So the minister of education appoints the principal of the school, and the teachers are paid by the Saudi government."
He says many of the academy's textbooks he has reviewed contain passages promoting hatred of non-Muslims. For example, the eleventh-grade text says one sign of the Day of Judgment will be when Muslims fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees that say: "Oh Muslim, oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him."
Al-Ahmed, a Shiite Muslim born in predominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, says the school's religious curriculum was written by Sheik Saleh al-Fawzan, a senior member of the Saudi religious council, who he said has "encouraged war against unbelievers." Al-Fawzan has authored textbooks used in Saudi schools.
A report released last year by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom found that the Saudi Ministry of Education publishes texts presenting Islam as "the only true religion" and denouncing all other religions as "invalid" and "misguided."
"Christians and Jews repeatedly are labeled as infidels and enemies of Islam who should not be befriended or emulated, and are referred to in eighth-grade textbooks as 'apes and pigs,'" the report said. In addition, it found that "some Saudi government-funded textbooks used in North American Islamic schools have been found to encourage incitement to violence again non-Muslims."
Critics complain that Douglass, who taught at the Saudi academy for at least a decade, has convinced American textbook publishers and educators to gloss over the violent aspects of Islam to make the faith more appealing to non-Muslim children. The units on Islam reviewed by WND appear to give a glowing and largely uncritical view of the faith.
Do you 'believe' this???
I do believe that we are not in any real danger of having shariah liberal law imposed on us by "activist courts".
Just because the words are there in our 'book', that does NOT we we follow them any more. why... just LOOK at your OWN 'book' that tells the Jews to 'kill' all those peolpe in the land THEY were entering.
They did not do that dastardly thing written there.........
Simple.
Get our fat asses from in front of these terminals and get to the places of power and make a change!
You can look in the back of any Saudi Aramco World magazine and find a section called "Events and Exhibitions" where Islamic culture is presented to the West.
A close relative of mine has attended a couple of events that were supposed to be "informative" sessions about Islamic Culture. Many of the statements made by the speakers were misleading and contained many omissions of fact.
These events could be construed as State sponsored propaganda. (would it be considered liable if I said they were State sponsored propaganda?)
Wake up America, the clock is ticking and we are asleep. It's time to tear down the altars to false gods and stand for the true God and Father of us all. Lord help us.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
If you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly;
You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you
and only a precarious chance of survival...
There may be a worse case.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Churchill
Sounds like good advice to me.
"Appear to"? Either they do, or they don't!
Boy I'm sure glad you pinged me on this thread two weeks after I'd been posting to it, just to write that piece of out-of-context brilliance to me.
Course, I had to go back and look at my original post to even find out what the heck I had been talking about on this thread, and in what context I had written the sentence "I reject that thinking". By the way, if you really truly disagree that the thinking which I reject ought to be rejected, then there's something wrong (with you). But I doubt you do, you just saw an opening for a clever one-liner and took it.
1. The 'BoR' is merely paper. It takes men, BELIEVEING what the paper states, to enforce what it says. That, sadly, is NOT taking place in this counry.
....and so as a result we're in danger of having shariah law imposed on us? Yes? Because if not, then your reply is irrelevant to what I was saying.
2. What you 'believe' about the 'BoR' means nothing unless you DEFEND (with your LIFE, if needed) what it states.
Ok. Good point! Thanks for chiming in.
[Post #41] Do you 'believe' this??? [HORIZONTAL LINE] I do believe that we are not in any real danger of having shariah liberal law imposed on us by "activist courts".
I don't really understand what you're doing with post #41. Who is it addressed to, me or RiverDrifter? Are you asking me a question? And, you're saying that you believe we're in no danger of having "liberal law" imposed on us?
Anyway, nobody was talking about "liberal law" on this thread. I'm not sure what you think the relevance is.
Of any of your posts to me, come to think of it.
Why am I not suprised? This is a war about religion whether anyone appreciates it or not. Get used to it. Look at what happened in France that's being reported today.
Tajud prayers--tell us :)
Nope - End their service to the school district no matter whether it stops or not!
Their stand that "Muslim education" is in the best interests of educating our kids is indefensible. They are a part of a 5th column seeking to bring America down.
Bring Them Down First!
Yeah, I noticd that it WAS an old one when I when back and re-read some of the earlier replies.
Don't mind me, as I rattle on about just about anything these days.........
What happened in France today? I did a search and nothing looks that important.
Don't we all!
Bump!
Apologies are in order, I think. My wife told me that there was a group of Muslims who raped and killed a woman in France and when caught they couldn't understand what the problem was. She was only a woman. (My wife heard it on the radio in the car.)There have been several things along that line to happen there over the past year or so. I will keep looking and let you know when I find it.
We can stay out of the middle east if we buy oil from Sibera. Its just that simple. Sibera is sitting there with more oil than the whole middle east and almost no Muslim problem. It doesn't take an idiot to figure out that the middle east was a insignificant region prior to 1945...and we should help regain that statue in life as quickly as possible. If we don't buy oil there...their cash flow will run out in 10 years, and the Muslims can sit with their camels and sheep, and wonder what happened? They deserve it.
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