School is starting in a few weeks and my 6 year old is entering first grade. She’s wondering about homework, what kinds of lessons she’ll be learning and if she’ll have a locker.
Lets take a look at what Saudi Arabian grade schoolers will be learning in their state-run schools, courtesy of The Washington Post’s recent examination of Saudi school books. As the Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom noted, this is after Saudi officials agreed to take the really inflammatory stuff out of the school books.
FIRST GRADE: " Every religion other than Islam is false."
FOURTH GRADE: "True belief means . . . that you hate the polytheists and infidels but do not treat them unjustly."
FIFTH GRADE: "Whoever obeys the Prophet and accepts the oneness of God cannot maintain a loyal friendship with those who oppose God and His Prophet, even if they are his closest relatives."
SIXTH GRADE: "Just as Muslims were successful in the past when they came together in a sincere endeavor to evict the Christian crusaders from Palestine, so will the Arabs and Muslims emerge victorious, God willing, against the Jews and their allies if they stand together and fight a true jihad for God, for this is within God’s power."
EIGHTH GRADE: "They are the Jews, whom God has cursed and with whom He is so angry that He will never again be satisfied [with them]." "Activity: The student writes a composition on the danger of imitating the infidels."
NINTH GRADE: "It is part of God’s wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the hour [of judgment]."
I hope these kids at least get a decent locker.