THANKS Oorang for pointing to this article.
It's incredible that anyone should still have to debate this topic considering 9-11 and the other terror attacks before and after 9-11.
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ON THE NET...
http://www.memri.org
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memritv.org
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=persiangulf&ID=IA22405
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 224
June 2, 2005 No.224
"The Public Debate on Kuwait's School Curricula: To Teach or Not to Teach Jihad"
By Y. Yehoshua*.
Introduction
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The terror attacks that occurred in Kuwait this year have intensified the public debate in the country on the extremist nature of the school curricula and on the need for curricular reform. Kuwaiti educators and intellectuals claim that Kuwait's curricula include extremist messages encouraging terrorism, and that members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement who emigrated from Egypt to Kuwait played a central role in devising the country's Islamic education curricula.
Other educators, who occupy positions in the Kuwaiti Education Ministry, argued that blaming the Kuwaiti curricula for extremism and terrorism is not only false but is part of an overall attack on Islam.
At the center of this debate is the question whether the subject of Jihad should be part of the state Islamic education curricula, and the extent to which teaching it contributes to extremist ideology."