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School teaches in Islamic School that Jews are Apes, Christians are Pigs and the Head refuses to remove the alleged book.
Dr Sumaya Alyusuf confirmed that the offending books exist after former teacher Colin Cook, 57, alleged that children as young as five are taught from racist materials at the King Fahd Academy in Acton.
Dr. Sumay Alyusuf is the Principal of the school funded and run by the Government of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Sumaya Alyusuf was asked in a BBC interview about these books and whether the above facts are true. She says that they have these books and it is the teacher's discretion whether they can be taught such things. And says, that these sections are misinterpreted and that there are lot of good chapters and teaching material in that book. When shown the offending items, she was asked whether she will withdraw the book, she said no and they don't teach hatred against Judaism or Christianity.
Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside and chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement, accused the school of inciting racial hatred and said: "This whole situation is unacceptable. It is incitement. It is part of a deliberate Saudi initiative to install Wahabbism extremism among Muslims and in the rest of society.
This has been ongoing for a number of years and they are teaching this to five and six year old kids. And it was pointed out by a fired teacher Mr. Cook who has taught English in that School for 19 years. He says it is poisoning student's minds with hatred. Only question, why did he wait 19 years to report this incident, he should have notified the authorities much earlier.
Dr. Alyusuf claims the books are not taught currently and teaches an international curriculum developed by her. Also, in the interview she was asked whether non-believers in Islam are condemned to hell, she said that they don't teach that only fundemantals of Islam to assert their identity.
I think she should remove those texts as soon as possible, because if she insists on keeping it will lead to escalation. What is your view on this?
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she said no and they don't teach hatred against Judaism or Christianity. Well what the hell would you call it then? If we here in America had school books that called Muslims pigs or apes - well, I can just imagine the uproar!
It is glaringly apparent that the books should be removed - but you know they won't be........
good post.
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There is a furor when the Danish Paper published a cartoon about Muslims, they should also follow the same sensitivity. Saudi Arabia is doing this, the US Government should tell them not to do this, but that will not happen also.
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If it is taught in any religion that a Creator (God in some beliefs) created everything in the entire cosmos, then there is not a single living being that is not of that Creator. No one group or organized religion can view other groups as lesser beings. If they do, then do not teach the word of their Creator but that of the hatred within themselves for anything different than their own belief system.
From the article:
Pupils have allegedly been heard saying they want to "kill Americans", praising 9/11 and idolising Osama bin Laden as their "hero".
Their message seems to be that of hate.
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Great post. There are so many things in this article that scream out at you, and this one needs to be highlighted:"Pupils have allegedly been heard saying they want to "kill Americans", praising 9/11 and idolising Osama bin Laden as their "hero"." No wonder the British have been having problems with so-called "home grown" terrorist attacks if this is the kind of thing that is going on in their schools.
I think the government needs to look into these allegations very carefully and thoroughly. This is just one school in one town in the UK. Scary.
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Coming soon to an American school near you no doubt!
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Please don't believe everything you read in the news and bear in mind that this story comes to you from a very right-wing English Newspaper... they are NOT giving you the full story and are deliberately trying to make the school seem belligerent and thoughtless... for another angle try reading this
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2007853,00.html
which which gives you another perspective... mainly that the school in question has removed the offending pages from its books anyway.
my personal view is that the school has as much right to feature these books on its shelves as any school has to feature dogma from all walks of life and beliefs in in its library. My school had manifestos from HItler and Marx in its history books alongside those of Gandhi and Jesus. It is the role of a school to teach us to examine all beliefs not just to teach what they think is right and wrong. Please leave the school alone and give the teachers some credit. Read more than just the one view presented here and you may get a clearer picture of why this particular story has been constructed to damage a school that has upset a teacher who has been dismissed for misconduct. -
@ spartacus:
Please don't believe everything you read in the news and bear in mind that this story comes to you from a very right-wing English Newspaper... they are NOT giving you the full story and are deliberately trying to make the school seem belligerent and thoughtless... for another angle try reading this
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2007853,00.html
which which gives you another perspective... mainly that the school in question has removed the offending pages from its books anyway.
my personal view is that the school has as much right to feature these books on its shelves as any school has to feature dogma from all walks of life and beliefs in in its library. My school had manifestos from HItler and Marx in its history books alongside those of Gandhi and Jesus. It is the role of a school to teach us to examine all beliefs not just to teach what they think is right and wrong. Please leave the school alone and give the teachers some credit. Read more than just the one view presented here and you may get a clearer picture of why this particular story has been constructed to damage a school that has upset a teacher who has been dismissed for misconduct.
Spartacus, thanks for the information, thats a great move, please do write an article about it. -
'Islamic school' is an oxymoron
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Islam teaches that all who do not submit to Allah, the god of Islam (not the god of either Judaism or Christianity) will be horribly tortured in a conflagration for eternity. The Koran teaches a much more horrible vision of hell than can be adduced from the pages of the New Testament, even, and asserts that all unbelievers (i.e., non-Muslims) will be suffer its tortures without end.
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Hey Sparticus - can you tell me what is up with the videos posted on this site? Are they just there to teach to world about a different religious belief, or are they in fact spouting hatred and condemning all the "infidels", namely Christians and Jews, to death??
How Awful Is This?-
Spartacus, I would just respond to you that the article that you cite is from a very left-wing English newspaper that is just presenting a liberal side of to the story. It still does not negate the fact that these books were part of the curriculum, for the past few years. They have just now removed the offending pages because of the uproar over them, not because it was the just, and right thing to do.
Other articles on the subject:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6337299.stm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007060106,00.html
The teacher in question is a British Muslim who has worked for the school for 19 years. Now, all of a sudden he is a crappy teacher? After 19 years? I would like to see if he has been given performance appraisals in the past.
The teacher is alleging that when the students were taking a GCSE exam (I think this is something like the SATs in the US) they were allowed to take textbooks into the exam with them. -
I think Spartacus is ignoring the obvious. Making excuses for this reminds me of the way in which "good Germans" made excuses for what the Nazi Socialist party was doing in schools and with the youth of Germany. I also read a few different articles about this, and they were NOT in "right-wing" papers by the way - and the story was just as alarming. How can you possibly think that this is all right? This isn't just showing an opposing point of view, this is about indoctrination!
Actually, it isn't hard to hunt down other articles online - the story actually broke several days back. . . and it's pretty obvious that these are very young kids, too young to be "processing" information in the way Spartacus suggests. I think we need to consider the age of these kids.
It is another important fact that they are being taught quite a bit of Islamic religion in this school - it isn't just a mainstream elementary program. And it isn't about one book or one class. It's about a repeated message of hate across classes.
I had Mein Kampf in High School too, but not before I was old enough to understand it. And also, and more importantly, it was presented as a moral aberration, not as just another point of view.
In defense of the teacher, the other articles I read about his firing implied that he brought it to public attention only after he had some concrete evidence - the textbooks. But his concern has been building for some time. What do you do? Walk away from your tenure, and your income, after 19 years, on a whim? I think he was doing some serious thinking about what it would cost him - that is why he waited. I think you're being pretty hard on him Cgull.
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A spokesman said: “The word Islam means peace and the faith preaches tolerance and understanding, in particular towards Jewish and Christian communities. It is because British pupils are put at risk that we’ve taken the extraordinary step of issuing a statement.”
Do they really think we are this stupid?
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Just found this article: http://www.actonw3.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conschools08.htm
What is interesting about it is that she at first denied the texts, and now admits to it.
Also, other articles say very plainly that in recent years the school's once general liberal-arts curriculum has moved toward a pro-Islamist tone.
Hard to tell who is telling the truth. But given this woman's history of lying to the press, I have my own guess. -
This type of ignorance has been going on for many , many years and unfortunately there will always be hate in our world.
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"We Do Call Jews Apes", Admits Head of Islamic School
