Planting the seeds of a U.S. insurgency
The Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches nearly 900 students in grades K-12 at its campus outside Washington, D.C., developed new Islamic studies textbooks for all grades after a 2008 congressional report called portions of the previous editions troubling.
“We know our students’ needs,” school director Abdul Rahma said. “We believe these books match their needs.”
The school deleted from its texts some of the most contentious passages, including references to Jihad, killing infidels and hatred of Jews and Christians.
Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Gulf Institute, which has been pressing the school to make revision since 2004, told FOX News that the textbooks characterize secular governments as “committing unbelief and allowing us to wage war against them.”
“So you’re teaching American students — implanting the seeds of insurgency in these people — and this is very dangerous,” Al-Ahmed said.
He added that the textbooks teach girls that they should not aspire to be judges or political leaders and when a girl gets married, she must ask her husband if she wants to leave the house.
The school has stood by its latest revision.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says it wants to look at the books but the Saudi government, which funds the academy, won’t give the panel a copy.
“We can’t figure out what the Saudi government has to hide and why they continually keep these secrets,” said Felice Gaer, chairwoman of the commission.
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Geez, Wonder what their hiding. Get a clue people. No wait, get a Qu’ran. Then start reading it. Maybe you’ll get a hint. But I doubt it. Personally the Qu’ran made me physically sleepy, but mentally shocked and outraged.
It appears to me that the Qur’an and perhaps schools such as the one described in the article above could be outlawed by applying a few carefully worded hate-laws.
Even better, how about an amendment to the U.S. Constitution which outlaws any religion which espouses killing, teaches that Jews and Christians are at the same level as pigs and advocates other inhumane behavior to non Muslims and non-believers of Islam?
What would be the difference between Islam and the KKK?
I’m a big advocate of the Bill of Rights so I could not go down that slippery slope. The best thing would be if the press would wake up and recognize this. If they took the risk and showed Islamic hate in their own words people might not tolerate it. Unfortunately we know this will not happen. Only Jews and Christians can be targeted this way.
Oh, don’t get me wrong; I’m an advocate of the bill of rights,too, but even it does not allow you to yell “Fire!” in a movie theater. It does not grant you the authority to kill nor does it prevent you from joining the KKK.
If we’ve seen the wisdom in having a law preventing us from yelling “Fire!” in a move theater, how much wisdom does it take to ban so-called religions which advocate killing and hate toward other religions and races?
The point is, if it looks and acts like a hate crime, then it is a hate crime.
In India, if I want, I can place a shrine in the middle of the road and launch a new religion around it. All traffic will be diverted around it so that the religion is not defaced or disrespected. In a word, it’s insane, but illustrates anything can be called a religion. There needs to be some boundaries.
It creates a few questions: What if the KKK were to grow its membership so that in 20 years it was the dominant culture of the world? Would that be acceptable? Would we still bury our heads in the sand and point proudly to the Bill of Rights? Should we?