So says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. These Islamic textbooks are found on the campus of the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Fairfax, Virginia. The same Islamic Saudi Academy which graduated one Ahmed Omar Abu Ali in 1999, who was later convicted by the Feds of plotting to assassinate President Bush in 2005.
What's in those school books, you ask?
~Apostates (those who convert from Islam), adulterers and people who murder Muslims can be permissibly killed.
~Polytheism makes blood and wealth permissible," meaning that a Muslim can take with impunity the life and property of someone believed guilty of polytheism. Polytheism includes Shiite and Sufi Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists.
~Jews were responsible for the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
~The Muslim world was strong when united under a single caliph, the Arabic language and the Sunni creed, and that Muslims have grown weak because of foreign influence and internal divisions.
Lovely stuff, but par for the course for the Saudi government-run school, which has been operating as a base for radical indoctrination and Wahhabi influence within the United States for years - and all under the seeming protection of the State Department.
This fundamentalist wahhabi school is not an isolated curriculum, by any means. Across the U.S. of A., the Saudis are liberally spreading their enormous piles of petro-dollars to affect the change they desire: the spread of islam in America.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the educational realm. Islamists have taken what's come to be known as the "soft jihad" into America's classrooms and children in K-12 are the first casualties. Whether it is textbooks, curriculum, classroom exercises, film screenings, speakers or teacher training, public education in America is under assault.
Along with funding textbooks and curricula, the Saudis are also involved in funding and designing training for public school teachers. The Saudi funded Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University now offers professional development workshops for K-12 teachers. The workshops take place at the hosting institution and provide teachers with classroom material. They are free of charge and ACMCU throws in lunch to boot.
And much of this saudi petro-dollar influence touches the children in a direct, 'field trip' manner:
~Last month, students at Friendswood Junior High in Houston were required to attend an "Islamic Awareness" presentation during class time allotted for physical education. The presentation involved two representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a record of Islamist statements and terrorism convictions.
The students were taught that God's name is 'allah'; were taught the five pillars of islam; and how to pray to mecca.
Parents were not notified about the presentation and it wasn't until a number of complaints arose that school officials responded with an apologetic e-mail.
But wait! There's more (which I'm sure the apoplectic, secular/aclu/slippery slope troopers will jump right on to end this egregious violation of 'the wall'??)
Maybe if a teacher wore a 'cross' necklace.....but, I digress:
~Earlier this year at Lake Brantley High School in Seminole County, Fla., speakers from the Academy for Learning Islam gave a presentation to students about "cultural diversity" that extended to a detailed discussion of the Quran and Islam.
~A school project last year at Amherst Middle School transformed "the quaint colonial town of Amherst, N.H., into a Saudi Arabian Bedouin tent community." Male and female students were segregated, with the girls hosting "hijab and veil stations" and handing out the oppressive head-to-toe black garment known as the abaya to female guests.
~And, of course, the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a charter school in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., with public funding for its overtly religious curriculum.
It is time to rise from our slumber, America. When you believe in nothing of any substance, it's not that you simply believe in nothing - but that you'll believe in anything. And the well financed and determined saudis know this.
The power to educate the next generation is an inestimable one and a free society cedes control at its peril. The days of the "silent majority" are no longer tenable in the face of a determined and clever enemy. The battle of ideas must be joined.
A big TY to Red Planet Cartoons for the 'toon.
