AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

            In the attacks of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. There was no real surprise that this was true because “religion is the foundation of the Saudi state's political ideology. It is also a key area of Saudi education in which students are taught the interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism (a movement founded 250 years ago by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab) that is reflected in these textbooks.”

“Saudi 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.” In 2004 a royal study found that school text and 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.' " They vowed to make changes and to modernize the curriculums. Ambassadors and government officials proclaimed the renewed texts and even took out a full page advertisement in the New Republic explaining how changes were made. Their embassies distribute a 74 page review of how the curriculum has been moderated. The only problem is that these statements are untrue.

           A review of the current year's texts in Islamic studies shows that the teaching of hatred towards Christians and Jews remain just as violent and intolerant as ever. “The texts teach a dualistic vision, dividing the world into true believers of Islam (the "monotheists") and unbelievers (the "polytheists" and "infidels").”

          “This indoctrination begins in a first-grade text and is reinforced and expanded each year, culminating in a 12th-grade text instructing students that their religious obligation includes waging jihad against the infidel to "spread the faith." Saudi students spend one third of their time studying these texts.

           The Saudi school system educates 5 million students in 25,000 schools. In addition they have 19 academies around the world which use these same texts. One of which is in Fairfax County, Virginia right outside of Washington, DC. They also distribute their texts to Muslim schools thru out the world that they do not control. Saudi Arabia is trying to dominate Islam and to position itself as the leader of religion in the Muslim world and these texts books are an integral part of this plan of making the Wahhabism interpretation of Islam the dominant sect.

           Here are some excerpts from the texts: FIRST GRADE:     " Every religion other than Islam is false."   FOURTH GRADE: "True belief means . . . that you hate the polytheists and infidels but do not treat them unjustly."     FIFTH GRADE: "Whoever obeys the Prophet and accepts the oneness of God cannot maintain a loyal friendship with those who oppose God and His Prophet, even if they are his closest relatives."   "It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a loyal friend to someone who does not believe in God and His Prophet, or someone who fights the religion of Islam."   "A Muslim, even if he lives far away, is your brother in religion. Someone who opposes God, even if he is your brother by family tie, is your enemy in religion."    SIXTH GRADE: "Just as Muslims were successful in the past when they came together in a sincere endeavor to evict the Christian crusaders from Palestine, so will the Arabs and Muslims emerge victorious, God willing, against the Jews and their allies if they stand together and fight a true jihad for God, for this is within God's power."      EIGHTH GRADE: "As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."    "God told His Prophet, Muhammad, about the Jews, who learned from parts of God's book [the Torah and the Gospels] that God alone is worthy of worship. Despite this, they espouse falsehood through idol-worship, soothsaying, and sorcery. In doing so, they obey the devil. They prefer the people of falsehood to the people of the truth out of envy and hostility. This earns them condemnation and is a warning to us not to do as they did."    "They are the Jews, whom God has cursed and with whom He is so angry that He will never again be satisfied [with them]."      "Some of the people of the Sabbath were punished by being turned into apes and swine. Some of them were made to worship the devil, and not God, through consecration, sacrifice, prayer, appeals for help, and other types of worship. Some of the Jews worship the devil. Likewise, some members of this nation worship the devil, and not God." "Activity: The student writes a composition on the danger of imitating the infidels."     NINTH GRADE: "The clash between this [Muslim] community (umma) and the Jews and Christians has endured, and it will continue as long as God wills."

  "It is part of God's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the hour [of judgment]."     "Muslims will triumph because they are right. He who is right is always victorious, even if most people are against him."    TENTH GRADE: The 10th-grade text on jurisprudence teaches that life for non-Muslims (as well as women, and, by implication, slaves) is worth a fraction of that of a "free Muslim male." Blood money is retribution paid to the victim or the victim's heirs for murder or injury: "Blood money for a free infidel. [Its quantity] is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, whether or not he is 'of the book' or not 'of the book' (such as a pagan, Zoroastrian, etc.)."   "Blood money for a woman: Half of the blood money for a man, in accordance with his religion. The blood money for a Muslim woman is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, and the blood money for an infidel woman is half of the blood money for a male infidel."    ELEVENTH GRADE: "The greeting 'Peace be upon you' is specifically for believers. It cannot be said to others."    "If one comes to a place where there is a mixture of Muslims and infidels, one should offer a greeting intended for the Muslims."......."Do not yield to them [Christians and Jews] on a narrow road out of honor and respect."    TWELFTH GRADE: "Jihad in the path of God -- which consists of battling against unbelief, oppression, injustice, and those who perpetrate it -- is the summit of Islam. This religion arose through jihad and through jihad was its banner raised high. It is one of the noblest acts, which brings one closer to God, and one of the most magnificent acts of obedience to God."

           I have been accused of being prejudiced against Muslims and Islam. I am not at all prejudiced, I am frightened by their beliefs and these teachings. Muslims make up a large part of the world's population and their children spend one third of their school day being taught the above. You decide; how do you feel about Muslim children being taught these things?

           Addendum: On last nights news the Saudi Ambassador offered the explanation for the remaining inflammatory teachings in the text : We can only move as quickly to make corrections as the population will allow. We must move slowly to change our previous intolerant teaching.

I suppose then that this next generation of terrorist that the Saudi’s, and other Muslims who use their text books, produce

will be only half as brain washed as this current crop. This should make us all feel safer? 

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901769.html