Posted on 06/26/2002 12:06:47 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
An Islamist school in the Palestinian Authority territory of Gaza teaches children as young as 5 the techniques of urban guerrilla warfare, jihad against Jewish settlers and martyrdom missions to kill Zionists.
A student at Islamic University aims his gun. |
The school called Islamic University, or Mosque is so proud of its programs for some 4,000 students that it boasts about them on a its public, Arabic-language website, jislamia.org a site well-illustrated with photos of small children in full-dress battle uniforms.
On the website's "news" page, an article, translated from Arabic, describes a graduation ceremony for elementary-level schoolchildren who learn, beginning at the age of 5, to covet the city of Jerusalem, learn about suicide bombers as "martyrs" and to hate "Zionist criminals."
At the ceremony, posters showing the images of Palestinian "martyrs" are posted on the walls especially the martyr Mohammed Al Dar. The students are required to recite Islamic slogans during the graduation and shout for the death of the Jews.
The children also perform military displays and play games with assault rifles.
Children march with their weapons at Islamic University. |
At the school, the children are instructed in urban guerrilla warfare and the importance of removing "Zionist settlers" from their land.
"The children can say 'No, no' to the Israeli occupiers and even though they are but 5 years old, they can say, 'We are not afraid of Israeli bombardment,'" explained Sheikh Ahmed Baher, the headmaster of the school.
Continued Baher, "We, in the name of the martyr Mohammed Al Dar and the martyr Radeyah Aiman, we pledge solidarity with them and the continuation of the jihad and the establishment (of Palestine) and the intifada."
A group of Islamic children burn the Israeli flag. |
Mohammed Hussein Nasr Allah, secretary general of the Iranian-backed, Lebanese-based terrorist organization Hezbollah, has visited the school and addressed the children. The terrorist leader told the children they "will never have to face the Zionists alone for the Hezbollah is with them forever."
A youngster emulates the killers of two Israelis in Ramallah. |
In addition to teaching hatred and war, the school also offers instruction in the Koran, science, math and history.
What's the goal of this institution? "The staff hopes it will produce a generation of children able to kick the Zionists out of Palestine and liberate the Palestinians."
Without honest and accurate information, Americans cannot form sound judgements about the situation over there.
In a local paper they ran a picture of an Isreali soldier. He was walking (and holding her hand) a young Palestinian girl down the street for protection.Would we ever see the other side do the same?
I think that it would be very hard to do.
There is no such thing as "programming." Despite what Peter Singer, B. F. Skinner et al. want you to believe, we human beings are not animals, and unlike animals we are instilled by our Creator with free will and consciencewhat we do, we choose to do. For 40 years, when the Palestinian people have made evil choices, the world has protected them from consequences, but conversely when a brave few made good choices they were rounded up and executed by Arafat's gangsters.
All that is needed to "deprogram" the Palestinians is to reward and protect the good while punishing evil-doers. Israel has started on this process, and as of Bush's speech Monday we now support them.
You neglected to point out the most crucial and relevant point:
The work you describe is clearly FICTION
That's right up there with 5 million slaves were fed to the sharks on their way to the Americas...
I believe all that weird bizarre (as I've heard) stuff too...
I repeat. Stupidity should be a jail-time crime.
Actually, the author claims that all the stories in the book are based on real life events. However, let's say you're right, the story is really fiction. The purpose of it is to teach Jewish children that it is wrong to hate all Arabs, and "righteous gentiles have a share in the world-to-come". (The story ends with the Arab giving the children a warning that not all Arabs are as friendly as he is.)
Schiller
Die Jungfrau von Orleans
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