On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:43:54 -0700 (PDT), xxarag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>DO YOU REALLY TAKE THE ARABS SERIOUSLY?
DO YOU REALY TAKE THE ****OGRAPHER MILLIONER ONCLE SERIOUSLY?
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>On 24 Jul, 02:08, "üDoug±Ç" <noün...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=662057
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>> > Saudi textbooks still teaching hate: re****t
>> > Jews, Christians referred to as apes and swine
>>
>> > 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.
>> > Despite a promise to remove attacks on other faiths from the public
school
>> > curriculum, Saudi Arabia's state-produced textbooks still refer to
Jews
>> > and
>> > Christians as apes and swine, insist that Jews conspire to take over
the
>> > world
>> > and on Judgment Day "the rocks or the trees" will call out to Muslims
to
>> > kill
>> > the Jews, says the Wa****ngton-based Hudson Institute, a conservative
think
>> > 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
attack
>> > homo***uals and Muslims who do not practice a fundamentalist form of
>> > Islam.
>>
>> > For example:
>>
>> > • "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 ...
>> > he
>> > should be stoned or thrown from a high place."
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>> > • "You can hardly find an example of sedition in which the Jews have
not
>> > played a role."
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>> > • 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
of
>> > 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
Intolerance,
>> > said the deeper problem the textbooks represent is a noxious ideology
that
>> > is
>> > being ex****ted all over the world.
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>> > "This ideology is kindling to [Osama] bin Laden's match," she said.
>>
>> > "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
that
>> > killing is sanctioned by God.
>>
>> > "Saudi Arabia is making every effort to make it mainstream in the
Muslim
>> > world
>> > and make it the dominant interpretation of Islam."
>>
>> > She said the Saudi education system is the main reason Web sites
designed
>> > to
>> > recruit suicide bombers are directed so heavily at Saudi youth.
>>
>> > The ultra-conservative Sunni kingdom practises a form of Islam called
>> > Wahhabism, which advocates jihad.
>>
>> > 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.
The
>> > deadline is September, 2008.
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>> > "[The State Department] had to look like we're doing something in the
face
>> > of
>> > this really toxic teaching," she said.
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>> > "It's so indefensible and so inexplicable that this is being
disseminated.
>> > It's not even private clerics or an enemy who is disseminating this.
This
>> > is
>> > our ally."
>>
>> > The international human rights lawyer said her latest study looked at
the
>> > textbooks used in the 2007-08 school year. But she found little
difference
>> > from the books studied for her first re****t and does not believe the
>> > Saudis
>> > will meet the September deadline.
>>
>> > Rather, she believes they agreed to make the changes as a "publicity
>> > ploy."
>>
>> > "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
after
>> > them and will not even bother to open the books or translate them,
which
>> > they
>> > have not done at all."
>>
>> > And when a new president enters the White House in January, the
agreement
>> > will
>> > likely be forgotten, she said.
>>
>> > Ms. Shea believes Americans give Saudi Arabia an easy ride because of
>> > their
>> > country's dependence on foreign oil.
>>
>> > "Oil independence is really im****tant for this reason. Because it's
going
>> > to
>> > be very hard for the Saudis to change."
>>
>> > Officials at the Saudi embassy in Wa****ngton, D.C., declined to
comment.
>>
>> > National Post
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>> > cle...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > 2008 Canwest Interactive, a division of Canwest Publi****ng Inc.
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