Osama bin Laden 9/11 colouring book slammed by Muslims

[rug]

We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book Of Freedom has been launched by Missouri publisher Really Big Coloring Books, which says it is ‘designed to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9/11’.

One page of the book, which costs $6.99, shows bin Laden hiding behind a woman wearing a hijab as he is shot by a Navy SEAL. Text accompanying the picture reads: 'Being the elusive character that he was, and after hiding out with his terrorist buddies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, American soldiers finally locate the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

'Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating radical Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE.'

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has condemned the book as ‘disgusting’, saying that it ‘demonises’ all Muslims as terrorists and extremists.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/874260-osama-bin-laden-9-11-colouring-book-slammed-by-muslims

[LeftinOH]

1. The "they hate us because of our freedom" pretext is both false and disgusting;

as if the US was some innocent babe in the woods.

A more appropriate explanation for children would be: "Petroleum-based US foreign policy favored despotic regimes, which has led to mistrust and hatred of the US by many people around the world, placing US citizens in great danger. On Sept 11, 2001 the blowback from this policy cost the lives of nearly 3,000 American citizens."

[w0nderer]

2. pretty much an instant fail for lack of identification of religion

'This is about 19 terrorist hijackers that came over here under the leadership of a devil worshipper, Osama bin Laden, to murder our people. This is history. It is absolutely factual,' the publisher added.

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read that again 'devil worshipper'
'it's history, absolutely factual'

so that's how history is to be taught in America now
by coloring inside the lines of a coloring book by a publisher that can't or won't differentiate between a devil worshipper and a moslem

people should recognize the pattern of 'this isn't my religion, nor this, nor this' and remember their Niemoller

[aquart]

3. An assassination children's book? GROSS.

[dmallind]

4. Don't read Grimm's fairy stories then - lot more savage than shooting. nt

[aquart]

5. I have. "Danced in iron shoes heated red hot."

Seared on my brain, that one.

[trotsky]

6. They teach the bible in Sunday School, so why not? n/t