Posted on 05/21/2006 7:56:26 AM PDT by floridaobserver
S audi Arabia's public schools have long been cited for demonizing the West as well as Christians, Jews and other "unbelievers." But after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis -- that was all supposed to change.
A 2004 Saudi royal study group recognized the need for reform after finding that the kingdom's religious studies curriculum "encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion, they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the 'other.' " Since then, the Saudi government has claimed repeatedly that it has revised its educational texts.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, has worked aggressively to spread this message. "The kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials, and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education," he said on a recent speaking tour to several U.S. cities. "Not only have we eliminated what might be perceived as intolerance from old textbooks that were in our system, we have implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan." The Saudi government even took out a full-page ad in the New Republic last December to tout its success at "having modernized our school curricula to better prepare our children for the challenges of tomorrow." A year ago, an embassy spokesman declared: "We have reviewed our educational curriculums. We have removed materials that are inciteful or intolerant towards people of other faiths." The embassy is also distributing a 74-page review on curriculum reform to show that the textbooks have been moderated.
The problem is: These claims are not true
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>>The U.S. government and the Saudi kingdom pretend that they
>>are friends, but they are not. I don't know why they bother to
>>put up the pretense. Anyone with any sense knows the Saudis
>>would stab us in the back at the first opportunity.
One word, three letters
OIL
They have it, and we and the rest of the world needs it. Were it not for that the Saudi's would be persona non grata in the USA.
Farakhan preaches hate toward the white race. Just check out the nation of islam website. It actually calls for "the elimination of your (white) destructive species." Of course the white race was "genetically engineered" by blacks thousands of years ago. Sounds far-fetched but it's on their site.
lol
I have read the initial post by Allegra and all of the ensuing attacks against her --- quite frankly, I'd go as far as to simply call it ignorance --- yes, a number of the responses to her have been outright rude --- but mostly, it is ignorance. As someone who has traveled in the Middle East, I absolutely understood immediately what she said. I also think that anyone who hasn't traveled there, or had an exposure that wasn't CNN-ized, etc., easily will cop the sentiments of the tag-a-long bunch here.
I think this thead got stuck on stupid for a bit. It drew some moonbats out for some reason and they did some good moonbat barking. ;-)
Understood!
Keep up the good work, though!
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