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LONDON — A British network of more than 40 part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students has been teaching from a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, including a textbook that asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews, according to a BBC documentary broadcast on Monday.
The 30-minute “Panorama” program quoted the Saudi government-supplied textbook as saying that Jews “looked like monkeys and pigs,” and that Zionists set out to achieve “world domination.” The program quoted a separate part of the curriculum — for children as young as 6 — saying that someone who is not a believer in Islam at death would be condemned to “hellfire.”
-- John F. Burns for The New York Times
The Saudis say that the material is taken out of context, but we have yet to receive word as to what the appropriate context could be. The British government is onto this, and it seems that they won't bow down to the Islamicists, or so they say. We're still some way from realizing the brotherhood of man. I'm tenpted to say that we may need a new religion, but maybe we have too many already.
The 30-minute “Panorama” program quoted the Saudi government-supplied textbook as saying that Jews “looked like monkeys and pigs,” and that Zionists set out to achieve “world domination.” The program quoted a separate part of the curriculum — for children as young as 6 — saying that someone who is not a believer in Islam at death would be condemned to “hellfire.”
-- John F. Burns for The New York Times
The Saudis say that the material is taken out of context, but we have yet to receive word as to what the appropriate context could be. The British government is onto this, and it seems that they won't bow down to the Islamicists, or so they say. We're still some way from realizing the brotherhood of man. I'm tenpted to say that we may need a new religion, but maybe we have too many already.
