DO YOU REALLY TAKE THE ARABS SERIOUSLY?
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> >http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=3D662057
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> > Saudi textbooks still teaching hate: re****t
> > Jews, Christians referred to as apes and swine
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> > Charles Lewis, National Post
> > Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008
> > Fahad Shadeed/Reuters
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> > Despite promises to the U.S., Saudi students are still learning from
> > textbooks
> > that espouse the killing of homo***uals and vilification of
non-Muslims=
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> > Despite a promise to remove attacks on other faiths from the public
sch=
ool
> > curriculum, Saudi Arabia's state-produced textbooks still refer to
Jews
> > and
> > Christians as apes and swine, insist that Jews conspire to take over
th=
e
> > world
> > and on Judgment Day "the rocks or the trees" will call out to Muslims
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> > kill
> > the Jews, says the Wa****ngton-based Hudson Institute, a conservative
th=
ink
> > tank.
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> > The textbooks, used by five million students in the kingdom every
year,=
as
> > well as in many Saudi-funded institutions outside the country, also
att=
ack
> > homo***uals and Muslims who do not practice a fundamentalist form of
> > Islam.
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> > For example:
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> > =95 "The punishment for homo***uality is death. The companions of the
> > Prophet
> > were unanimous on killing although they differed ... in the manner of
> > killing.
> > Some companions ... stated that a homo***ual is to be burned with fire
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> > he
> > should be stoned or thrown from a high place."
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> > =95 "You can hardly find an example of sedition in which the Jews have
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not
> > played a role."
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> > =95 Zionism has achieved its aims through a variety of "destructive
> > movements"
> > including the Rotary Clubs and International Lions Clubs, which are
> > "Masonic
> > clubs based in America and they have secret agents all over the
world."
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> > One of the suggested activities for Grade 8 students is to "write a
> > composition on the danger of imitating infidels, giving some examples
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f
> > imitation among the students and then present it to his classmates."
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> > Nina Shea, author of the re****t, Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of
Intoleran=
ce,
> > said the deeper problem the textbooks represent is a noxious ideology
t=
hat
> > is
> > being ex****ted all over the world.
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> > "This ideology is kindling to [Osama] bin Laden's match," she said.
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> > "It radicalizes those who are indoctrinated with it. The aim is to
> > radicalize
> > students to hate the West, hate non-Muslims, to hate Jews, and to say
t=
hat
> > killing is sanctioned by God.
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> > "Saudi Arabia is making every effort to make it mainstream in the
Musli=
m
> > world
> > and make it the dominant interpretation of Islam."
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> > She said the Saudi education system is the main reason Web sites
design=
ed
> > to
> > recruit suicide bombers are directed so heavily at Saudi youth.
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> > The ultra-conservative Sunni kingdom practises a form of Islam called
> > Wahhabism, which advocates jihad.
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> > Ms. Shea, who produced her first re****t on the textbooks in 2006, said
> > Saudi
> > Arabia agreed to make changes after pressure from the United States.
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e
> > deadline is September, 2008.
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> > "[The State Department] had to look like we're doing something in the
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ace
> > of
> > this really toxic teaching," she said.
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> > "It's so indefensible and so inexplicable that this is being
disseminat=
ed.
> > It's not even private clerics or an enemy who is disseminating this.
Th=
is
> > is
> > our ally."
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> > The international human rights lawyer said her latest study looked at
t=
he
> > textbooks used in the 2007-08 school year. But she found little
differe=
nce
> > from the books studied for her first re****t and does not believe the
> > Saudis
> > will meet the September deadline.
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> > Rather, she believes they agreed to make the changes as a "publicity
> > ploy."
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> > "They want to take some of the pressure off by promising to make the
> > changes
> > ,but they are fairly confident that the State Department will not go
af=
ter
> > them and will not even bother to open the books or translate them,
whic=
h
> > they
> > have not done at all."
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> > And when a new president enters the White House in January, the
agreeme=
nt
> > will
> > likely be forgotten, she said.
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> > Ms. Shea believes Americans give Saudi Arabia an easy ride because of
> > their
> > country's dependence on foreign oil.
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> > "Oil independence is really im****tant for this reason. Because it's
goi=
ng
> > to
> > be very hard for the Saudis to change."
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> > Officials at the Saudi embassy in Wa****ngton, D.C., declined to
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> > National Post
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