Rosh Hashana Saudi Textbook Edification (5) - Commitment to Eternal Warfare Might Be a Problem For the Peace Process
We think we might have identified the reason that Hamas thinks it's their Islamic obligation to keep trying to kill Jews. It turns out that contrary to what Western apologists say... shockingly... it might have something to do with Islam after all:
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."
In a way, you have to admire the logic in Saudi educational methods. They build you up slowly: Jews and Christians are false (first grade), they are enemies because they are false (fifth grade), and you have to fight a true jihad against their falseness (sixth grade). By the time you get to ninth grade, it seems more or less natural that you're going to have to fight them "until the hour of judgment". If American schools built concepts up this way, kids would actually learn how to think. Maybe Americans can send their kids to some of the readily available Saudi schools all over the planet:
The Saudi public school system totals 25,000 schools, educating about 5 million students. In addition, Saudi Arabia runs academies in 19 world capitals, including one outside Washington in Fairfax County, that use some of these same religious texts. Saudi Arabia also distributes its religion texts worldwide to numerous Islamic schools and madrassas that it does not directly operate... Education is at the core of the debate over freedom in the Muslim world. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden understands this well; in a recent audiotape he railed against those who would 'interfere with school curricula.'"
We kind of agree with OBL about this touchy-feely corruption of school curricula. How stupid is it that American kids no longer have to memorize the Gettysburgh Address because some busybody with a Masters in Education tricked a second-tier journal into publishing her thesis about the hegemony of the American classroom (no doubt written by 'bringing Foucault, Althusser, and Nietzsche into dialogue with each other')? The Saudis have a more rigorous educational system than we do, and millions upon millions of kids are benefiting from it:
The Saudi public school system totals 25,000 schools, educating about 5 million students. In addition, Saudi Arabia runs academies in 19 world capitals, including one outside Washington in Fairfax County, that use some of these same religious texts. Saudi Arabia also distributes its religion texts worldwide to numerous Islamic schools and madrassas that it does not directly operate... Education is at the core of the debate over freedom in the Muslim world. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden understands this well; in a recent audiotape he railed against those who would 'interfere with school curricula.'"
Back to the Ad Herennium!
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."
In a way, you have to admire the logic in Saudi educational methods. They build you up slowly: Jews and Christians are false (first grade), they are enemies because they are false (fifth grade), and you have to fight a true jihad against their falseness (sixth grade). By the time you get to ninth grade, it seems more or less natural that you're going to have to fight them "until the hour of judgment". If American schools built concepts up this way, kids would actually learn how to think. Maybe Americans can send their kids to some of the readily available Saudi schools all over the planet:
The Saudi public school system totals 25,000 schools, educating about 5 million students. In addition, Saudi Arabia runs academies in 19 world capitals, including one outside Washington in Fairfax County, that use some of these same religious texts. Saudi Arabia also distributes its religion texts worldwide to numerous Islamic schools and madrassas that it does not directly operate... Education is at the core of the debate over freedom in the Muslim world. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden understands this well; in a recent audiotape he railed against those who would 'interfere with school curricula.'"
We kind of agree with OBL about this touchy-feely corruption of school curricula. How stupid is it that American kids no longer have to memorize the Gettysburgh Address because some busybody with a Masters in Education tricked a second-tier journal into publishing her thesis about the hegemony of the American classroom (no doubt written by 'bringing Foucault, Althusser, and Nietzsche into dialogue with each other')? The Saudis have a more rigorous educational system than we do, and millions upon millions of kids are benefiting from it:
The Saudi public school system totals 25,000 schools, educating about 5 million students. In addition, Saudi Arabia runs academies in 19 world capitals, including one outside Washington in Fairfax County, that use some of these same religious texts. Saudi Arabia also distributes its religion texts worldwide to numerous Islamic schools and madrassas that it does not directly operate... Education is at the core of the debate over freedom in the Muslim world. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden understands this well; in a recent audiotape he railed against those who would 'interfere with school curricula.'"
Back to the Ad Herennium!
