In Pakistan's Public Schools (not madrasas), Jihad Part of Lesson Plan

[DeepModem Mom]

LA Times:
In Pakistan's Public Schools, Jihad Still Part of Lesson Plan
The Muslim nation's public school texts still promote hatred and jihad, reformers say.

By Paul Watson, Times Staff Writer

LAHORE, Pakistan — Each year, thousands of Pakistani children learn from history books that Jews are tightfisted moneylenders and Christians vengeful conquerors. One textbook tells kids they should be willing to die as martyrs for Islam.

They aren't being indoctrinated by extremist mullahs in madrasas, the private Islamic seminaries often blamed for stoking militancy in Pakistan. They are pupils in public schools learning from textbooks approved by the administration of President Pervez Musharraf....

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"Some people coming from the regular school system are volunteering for various kinds of jihad, which is not jihad in classical Islamic theory, but actually terrorism in the modern concept," said Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani author and professor of international relations at Boston University....

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After it won independence from Britain in 1947, Pakistan had a secular public school system. President Zia ul-Haq, a former military dictator, ordered Islamic education to be incorporated into the public school curriculum in the 1980s as he consolidated power with the support of hard-line clerics.

Pakistan is still grappling with the lethal forces that Zia's "Islamization" policy unleashed....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-schools18aug18,0,5638785.story?coll=la-home-world

[ck4829]

1. Zia ul-Haq was also a friend of the RW'ers

He was with the RW when they funded the groups that now make up Al Qaeda.

He also died under mysterious circumstances.

A. It was on the same day that Poppy received the nomination

B. His body was not touched for weeks, way out of line with Islamic customs

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Very interesting, ck -- religious extremists and the Right, hand in hand.

n/t

[crikkett]

3. BFD: US Imperialism part of lesson plan in public schools

JROTC teaches 'die for your country.' Military recruiters are free roam highschool hallways w/ their 'hoo-ah' hooey.

We're a couple of penstrokes away from teaching Biblical mythology in Biology class. Our history books are all about the white christian's triumph over brown heathens and subsequent domination of the world.

Our kids aren't being indoctrinated by extremists in seminaries, "They are pupils in public schools learning from textbooks approved by the administration..."

think about it...