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Written by Dr. Charles Jacobs
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
With gas prices over $4 per gallon, the Saudis are flush with cash. Where does all that money go? Well, the royal family just announced they're financing another 4,500 madrassas (Islamic schools) in South Asia, adding to the Saudi-built thousands around the world.
Just what sort of lessons are you funding when you gas up at the pumps? A brand new analysis of 2008 Saudi textbooks - from the inestimable Center for Religious Freedom (www.crf.hudson.org/) -- shows them packed with passages that should make the hair on any liberal, tolerant person stand straight up. Examples:
"The Jews and Christians are enemies of the believers, and they cannot approve of Muslims."
"In Islamic law, however, [jihad] has two uses: One usage is specific. It means to exert effort to wage war against the unbelievers and tyrants."
"The punishment for homosexuality is death."
"As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."
"You can hardly find an example of sedition in which the Jews have not played a role."
If a Christian or Jewish textbook contained anything comparable about Muslims, decent Christians and Jews would properly be in an uproar over their kids, being taught to hate, much less incited to violence. And surely, the well-oiled grievance industry would roll into action demanding retribution.
But the fact that Saudi kids are being taught that to hate and fight infidels as a holy obligation has gone almost completely under the radar of the Christians and Jews and the grievance industry. Instead it has become a right-wing issue.
And the stunning fact that Saudi textbooks are spread all over the world to the thousand of petro-funded madrassas is also a right-wing issue. Even the U.S. government wants to look the other way.
And even when it happens a stone's throw from the nation's capital. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that The Islamic Saudi Academy of Fairfax, Va, established by the Saudi Embassy in Washington, has been using these kinds of textbooks.
But after initial protests, the U.S. State Department, which promised that the offending passages would be removed, is backing down.
The lifeblood of the global jihad is the radicalization of children by Saudi-funded schools. Kids from Thailand, Indonesia and Britain study at the Pakistan madrassas and when they go home, the leaders of peaceful mosques are shouted down and voted out, replaced by fire-breathing preachers. After that, the real problems begin.
So why don't we monitor Muslim textbooks here and forbid the hate texts? If monitoring their texts gets the Saudis enraged, and they raise oil prices, good! America needs pain to prompt serious efforts on alternative energy.
The damage they've already done may not be easily undone, but we don't have to tolerate it here, or keep paying for it like a bunch of witless chumps. |
