Raymond Ibrahim i en kommentar på Pyjamasmedia – Textbook Lies About Islam.

“In recent House hearings dedicated to examining Islamic extremism, I stressed that the fundamental stumbling block to effective policy-making is educational and epistemological. What people are taught about Islam needs a serious overhaul before we can expect to formulate strategies that make sense.

Worth heeding is former top Pentagon official William Gawthrop’s 2006 lament that “the senior service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered.”

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A report by the American Textbook Council sheds light by showing how these academic failures have much deeper roots…

Speaking of jihad, one seventh-grade textbook explains, “Jihad represents the human struggle to overcome difficulties and do things that are pleasing to God. Muslims strive to respond positively to personal difficulties as well as worldly challenges. For instance, they might work to be better people, reform society, or correct injustice.” By not informing students that all these aspects mean something different for Muslims — killing an apostate is considered “correcting injustice” and spreading Islamic law is “reforming society” — the textbook misleads by projecting Western interpretations onto Islam.

Compare this textbook’s definition of jihad with that of an early (non-PC) edition of the venerable Encyclopaedia of Islam. Its opening sentence simply states, “The spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general. … Jihad must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam. … Islam must completely be made over before the doctrine of jihad [warfare to spread Islam] can be eliminated.” Muslim legal manuals written in Arabic are even more explicit.

The report finds other disturbing aspects regarding Islam’s whitewashing in textbooks: the well-documented Muslim military conquests demarcating most of what is now known as the “Islamic world” are glossed over or distorted; Islam ambiguously “spread” or was “brought.” Well-defined aspects of Islamic law — the subordinate status of women and non-Muslims, execution of the apostate and homosexual, and other issues that appear almost any given day in headlines — are either ignored or obfuscated. History is distorted to portray Muslims as tolerant and progressive, Christians as intolerant and backwards…

The effects are dramatic. For instance, far from objectively examining Islam, the government is now pushing to ban Arabic words connotative of Islamic ideology from formal analysis — such as “mujahid,” “umma,” “Sharia,” “caliphate” — asking personnel to rely primarily on generic terms, such as “terrorists.”

The greater irony is that not only do children’s textbooks in Muslim countries openly teach hatred and hostility for non-Muslims, or “infidels” — those same people fervently trying to whitewash Islam — but so do Muslim schools operating on American soil.”

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4 kommentarer »

1. Jeg er ikke klar over hvorvidt EU har taget de samme skridt som angiveligt er taget i USA ?

   I hvert fald er EU jo barslet med vejledninger for politikere og så vidt jeg ved også for mediernes journalister om hvilke ord osv. der forventes anvendt i forbindelse med Islam og muslimer.

   Det ville være ret godt om befolkningerne i EU vidste hvilke ord og ordsammensætninger vi risikerer at komme i fængsel for at anvende.

   Kommentar af Vivi Andersen — mandag 6. april 2009 @ 00:57

2. Jeg behøver kun et ord, til at beskrive muslimer/iSLAM:

   Fjenden.

   Kommentar af M16 — mandag 6. april 2009 @ 07:30

3. De 2 kommentarer rammer PLET.

   Skal vi ikke på godt dansk bare vedtage, at normale mennesker forlængst har gennemskuet, at muslimerne er FULDE AF LØGN, når de udtaler sig til os “vantro”. Det er kun de såkaldt “intellektuelle”, der hopper på den galej.
   Skolebøger med hadefuld propaganda mod kristne og jøder er et kendt fænomen, der TIES IHJEL af de nyttige idioter, der er apologeter for islam, herhjemme. (Læs kunstnere, journalister, DDR og selvudnævnte intellektuelle).

   SYGT

   Kommentar af ramses-2 — mandag 6. april 2009 @ 14:41

4. Man behøver egentligt ikke tvivle på, at folk som bl.a. en John Esposito reelt er hvad man, før verden gik af lave, ville have kaldt en Quisling.

   Mit store håb er, af de intellektuelt uhæderlige marxister, som man finder så fandens mange af i humaniora, får hvad de fortjener.

   Hvis de tumper får hvad de fortjener, vil solens overflade forekomme som et skyggefuldt “himmerige” sammenlignet med det “helvede” de skiderikker ender i.

   Kommentar af Mackety — mandag 6. april 2009 @ 16:10

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