Saudi Schools teach Human Rights Abuse

Saudi new textbooks teach children to cut off hand and feet
by Donell McGriff – 29 December, 2011 – Metro Zimbabwe

Zimmetro — The world continues to be spooked by what Saudi Arabia dispersed to its children throughout the national curriculum. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there was an intense focus on Saudi Arabia and its educational teachings because almost all of the attackers were from the kingdom. Observers found widespread controversial, hate-incited and inflammatory languages in Saudi school textbooks, and pressed the issues to the helm of Western governments.

In 2006, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki al-Faisal told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relationships that the Saudi king was determined to eradicate this ideology of hate. His statement last time:

“In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah recognizes that above all else education is the key, and he has put forth a program of reforms in this area,” al-Faisal said. “In recent years, the kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education. Not only have we eliminated what is objectionable from old textbooks that were in our system, we have also implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan. “

Now observers returned to the ‘revised’ 2010-2011 Saudi school textbooks, and found something which are still rather unpleasant for them.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Despite Saudi Arabia’s promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language.

Recently, the Institute for Gulf Affairs (IGA) in Washington, D.C., was able to get its hands on some Saudi textbooks. The group then provided these startling translations to Fox News. According to Alu Al-Ahmen, director of the IGA, terrorism starts in the education system. “If you teach six million children such knowledge in these important learning years of their lives, if you install all those in their brain, it is of no wonder we have so many Saudi suicide bombers,” he explains.

Al-Ahmen, a Saudi citizen, said his organization obtained the textbooks from confidential sources within the kingdom, and brought them out from the kingdom to the U.S. He added that the texts are paid for by the Saudi government. The government’s role in the funding of the textbooks makes the presence of controversial and dangerous language even more concerning.

Saudi textbooks brought to the U.S. for observation, some of them intended for the whole Muslim whole as shown in the map.

In a textbook for 10th-graders, printed for the 2010-2011 academic year, al-Ahmed said teenagers are taught barbaric practices. “They show students how to cut (the) hand and the feet of a thief,” he said. In another textbook, for ninth-graders, the students are taught the annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative and necessary. One text reads in part: “The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. The Jew will hide behind the stone and the tree, and the stone or tree will say: Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” …more