Christians and Hindus portrayed negatively by offensive school textbooks in Pakistan

Christian Daily ^ | April 15, 2016 | Christian Deguit

[Jyotishi]

Textbooks in Pakistan that are used to teach about 41 million children, negatively portray religious minorities such as Christians and Hindus, referring to them as "nefarious, violent, and tyrannical by nature."

(Reuters/Kham)Third-grade level students attend class at the Mashal Model School on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

"Pakistan's public school textbooks contain deeply troubling content that portrays non-Muslim citizens as outsiders, unpatriotic, and inferior; are filled with errors; and present widely-disputed historical 'facts' as settled history," said Robert George in a press release. George is the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

A study done by the USCIRF discovered that the public school system still observes fundamental intolerance of religious minorities. The title of the study is "Teaching Intolerance in Pakistan: Religious Bias in Public School Textbooks."

Moreover, it was found that the textbooks do not indicate the rights of religious minorities and how these minorities positively contributed to Pakistan's development.

The textbooks teach Pakistani children that Christians learned tolerance and kind-heartedness from Muslims and that Hindus have their own conspiracies toward the Muslims. This is alarming because Christian and Hindu children will be exposed to these very pro-Muslim messages. The coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims is not being promoted with what the offensive textbooks are teaching.

"These textbooks sadly reflect the alarming state today of religious freedom in Pakistan. A country's education system, including its textbooks, should promote religious tolerance, not close the door to cooperation and coexistence," George said.

The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 challenges the presidents of countries who are involved in tolerating severe violations of religious freedom to make annual Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) designations.

The U.S. State Department has refused to include Pakistan on its list of CPC for political reasons.

Pakistan is being called as a "country of particular concern" by the U.S. State Department due to its ongoing violations of religious freedom. The State Department mentions the Pakistani government's failure and negligence when it comes to dealing with abuses of religious freedom.

[MeanWestTexan]

Are they sure they aren’t Common Core textbooks?

Some more anti-Christian, anti-Jew, crap from our betters in New York City?

[Steely Tom]

Tell the United Nations, they’ll get right on it.

[Jyotishi]

Related:

Pakistan ‘received $25.91b’ from US since 9/11

June 27, 2013

http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Jun-2013/pakistan-received-25-91b-from-us-since-9-11

[Gamecock]

Why should Pakistan be held to a different standard than the US?

[null and void]

Has obama ordered them to be translated into English yet?

[PGR88]

In my well-travelled opinion, Pakistan is the worst country in the world - corrupt, divided, dirty, illiterate, violent, and usually in-bred. Maybe Somalia is a close second. Not all cultures are created equal, and no countries are either.

No Western nation should take any of Pakistan’s citizens, because if they immigrate, they are bringing all the problems of their country with them.

[rjsimmon]

No Western nation should take any of Pakistan’s citizens, because if they immigrate, they are bringing all the problems of their country with them.

The same can be said of practically all 3rd world nations.

[Iron Munro]

What are the odds that the same lessons are being taught in muslim zones throughout the USA?

http://tinyurl.com/Muslim-No-Go-Zines

"Author Steve Tarani said during a presentation in Nashville on Sunday that he has witnessed the alleged “no-go zones” — areas where police cannot enter — while shadowing a friend who serves on the Detroit Metro SWAT Police on a drive in Dearborn, MI. He described pulling up to one of the alleged Muslim-controlled areas:

The street signs suddenly went from English to Arabic. There wasn’t a single English word on any shop or any street sign. And in fact, these little yellow signs were posted all along the edges. Jeremy said to me, ‘this is it. We don’t go past this line.’ And I said to Jeremy, ‘what do you mean? You guys are Detroit Metro. You’re the SWAT team. You can go anywhere you want. What if you get a call over there?’ He said ‘this is it, it’s hazardous for our team if we go past this line.’

I have seen it with my own eyes, witnessed it in the backseat of a car and it is for real. No-go zones exist in the United States.

Dearborn, Michigan is not the only place that these settlements exist. They are spread out over the country in various cities. There’s an estimate of over 5,000 known terrorist cells in the United States. However our most persistent and significant threat, right now, to us here today this morning, is the homegrown violent extremists."

[Bullish]

...negatively portray religious minorities such as Christians and Hindus, referring to them as "nefarious, violent, and tyrannical by nature."

Wow, talk about projection.

[DoughtyOne]