Bruce The Psychic Guy ([info]bitpig) wrote,
@ 2008-06-12 16:10:00
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TOLERANCE ALERT! Osama bin Laden is one thing, but moderate Muslims from Anytown USA would never buy into the whole Islamic Jihad thing. right?

Right?

Textbooks at a private Islamic school in McLean [Virginia] teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to the findings of a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists" - a designation some extremists apply to members of virtually every other religion.

The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government. [ ... ] The texts did appear to contain numerous revisions, including pages that were removed or passages that were whited out, but numerous troubling passages remain, according to the panel:

*The authors of a 12th-grade text on monotheism write that "[m]ajor polytheism makes blood and wealth permissible," meaning that a Muslim can take with impunity the life and property of someone thought guilty of polytheism.

*A social studies text offers the view that Jews are responsible for the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims: "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated [the Muslims]." Source
Yeah, those all-American moderate Muslims — gotta love 'em. Keep in mind, though, that if they're teaching the kids jihad in McLean, Virginia, they're probably doing it in your town, too.

If Franklin D. Roosevelt were president today, every Muslim in America would be behind barbed wire right now.

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Hate crime: five white kids attack and kill a black man on the subway in Boston.

I lied. The kids were black and the guy they killed was white. But do you see now the biased way in which the news media report racial crimes? If five white kids were to kill a black guy in cold blood on a public subway, it would be labeled a "hate crime" and would create an international uproar. But when five black men murder a white man in cold blood in the same circumstances, it's not a hate crime, it's business as usual.

How is that right?

ENDE




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[info]squidflakes
2008-06-12 10:44 pm UTC (link)
Ok... the article states that the school is funded by Saudi Arabia. The Saudi's are Wahhabist Sunni Muslims, which makes them the most puritanical and conservative of the bunch. Calling them moderate Muslims is like calling you a hippie, pot-smoking, liberal.

Saudi Arabia spends about 25% of it's GDP on foreign aid, and the bulk of that goes to spreading their specific brand of Islam to the rest of the world. That this particular school had some serious hard-core doom and gloom texts is no surprise, just like finding anti-science texts at Billy Graham's schools.

As for your early insistence that Muslims were the enemy, I can't disagree with you more. Nor can I support genocide against anyone. Ever. This is why I don't do crusades. Sure, there may be a few thousand or even hundred thousand Muslims who want me dead simply because I don't share their religion, but at the same time, there are the same number of conservative, Dominionist, ultra-right wing Christians who want me dead for the exact same reasons. I don't think Christianity is evil, even though it condones rape, murder, and genocide in the same way as Islam. Most modern Christians take these parts of the Bible with a grain of salt and continue on with the great parts of their religion. Same with Muslims.

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[info]bitpig
2008-06-13 12:14 am UTC (link)
[T]here may be a few thousand or even hundred thousand Muslims who want me dead simply because I don't share their religion, but at the same time, there are the same number of conservative, Dominionist, ultra-right wing Christians who want me dead for the exact same reasons.

Really? Care to cite some evidence to support that? Remember, you claim that a "few thousand or even hundred thousand" ultra-right wing Christians want you dead. I'd love to see a piece of credible evidence backing that claim up.

And Christianity does not condone rape, murder, and genocide, because Jesus did not condone those things. Any "Christian" denomination calling for rape, murder, and genocide is not Christian.

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[info]renardpolaire
2008-06-14 03:19 am UTC (link)
The "hate crime" part was very true. The double standards in our society are ridiculous.

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