Lessons of Hate at Islamic Schools in Britain

by JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
November 23, 2010

https://www.legal-project.org/912/lessons-of-hate-at-islamic-schools-in-britain

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LONDON — A British network of more than 40 part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students has been teaching from a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, including a textbook that asks children to list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jews, according to a BBC documentary broadcast on Monday.

The 30-minute "Panorama" program quoted the Saudi government-supplied textbook as saying that Jews "looked like monkeys and pigs," and that Zionists set out to achieve "world domination." The program quoted a separate part of the curriculum — for children as young as 6 — saying that someone who is not a believer in Islam at death would be condemned to "hellfire."

The program said the textbooks had been obtained by an "undercover" Saudi Arabian researcher who asked for them during a visit to one of the Saudi-backed schools and clubs, which meet in the evenings and on weekends in a network that is linked to the cultural bureau of the Saudi Embassy in London.

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