Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Meanwhile...

The Saudis may be our best friends when it comes to oil, but it is indeed interesting what they teach in their grade schools and how little children are conditioned to hate.

A selection:

11th Grade textbook: The Prophet said, 'Do not greet Jews and Christians with the words 'Peace be upon you.' If you come upon one of them on the road, force him to the narrower part.

10th Grade textbook: The punishment for homosexuality is death. Both the active and passive participants are to be killed whether or not they have previously had sexual intercourse in the context of a legal marriage.... Some of the companions of the Prophet stated that [the perpetrator] is to be burned with fire. It has also been said that he should be stoned, or thrown from a high place.

9th Grade textbook: The prophet said, 'The hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jew hides behind rocks and trees, until the rocks or the trees say, 'O Muslim! O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him'

More grade school translations here. I first read about this story on Gawker.

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