Posted by djtwistter
Investigation into what is being taught about non muslims in a uk islamic school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-vXw7XKzg
Posted by goldenface
Is this the article that was on BBC Newsnight the other night?
Posted by djtwistter
yea i know i missed it soo i search every every for it and found it lol
Posted by Residentevil
That is outragious
Posted by amnesia
don't worry, in my Islamic school this wasn't taught.
By the way, did you BOTHER to mention, that the video clearly mentions that this is by Extremists and Radicals?
Posted by PeterKay
If you want to know what Islam really teaches, click on the 1st part of my signature, that is the Source.
Posted by djtwistter
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dude link is not working
Posted by PeterKay
works fine, u need to click on it
Posted by Xugaa
Probe into Islamic school ordered
Schools minister Jim Knight has ordered an inquiry into an Islamic school accused of promoting religious intolerance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6341595.stm
'Worthless religions'
The controversy centres on the use of textbooks produced by the Saudi Ministry of Education.
A textbook dated 2005/2006 allegedly asks the reader to "give examples of worthless religions... such as Judaism, Christianity, idol worship and others".
In another textbook for 12 and 13 year olds, dated 2004/2005, the author allegedly says that a Koranic verse, which talks of turning people into monkeys and pigs, is about Jews and Christians.
Posted by PeterKay
The link you just posted also says:
"She said the controversy had arisen from the misinterpretation of the material which was based on the Koran."
Easy to miss out eh!
Posted by maggflodd
This doesn't make it better but/BUT: maggflodd the "atheist" used to share a house in Ireland with 2 catholic religion teachers... They used to teach exactly the same kind of non-sense and worse... A current irish history book has exactly 1 page about women... "feminists in the 70's" were "frustrated" and "hated all men"... I'm a men; I hang out with hard-hard-hard-core feminists (incl. Mrs maggflodd)' none of them just so "hate all men"...
In my non-faith "liberal" German school, in the eighties you could wear a conservative party badge, but a "No nukes"-sticker could get you expelled... In catholic Ireland you can buy Playboy-branded thongs for 10-12yr-olds!!!(no shit)
... If you wanna debate "-isms", you cannot cherry-pick... Else, you're just an "...-ist"! Paxman has lost any idea of his own media-whorish-ness... Even though that schoolbook is badbadbad, but there aren't ANY good ones - that'd be a contradition in itself!
Posted by london-uk
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Have problems accessing youtube on the PC I'm currently on, but if the clip is the same as Newsnight the other day, which involved the Principal of the King Fahad School, then I saw it. Newsnight had obtained copies of textbooks used by the school (sponsored by the Saudi government). The head teacher refused to repudiate the content of the books (i.e. Jews and Christians were equated to pigs and monkeys), stating that certain other chapters could be used for the schools "objectives". She has since climbed down somewhat (probably after instructions from the her Saudi wahabi sponsors), and promised to remove the offensive chapters.
P.S. The above person said the controversey was due to misinterpretation. If you had watched the entire program, you would know that Newsnight had asked two independant Islamic Scolars to translate the material for them.
Posted by axxxr
I'm sure interpretations found in the Holy Bible and the Jewish Torah have have similer translations if examined carefully.
Christianity wasn't exactly spread on the basis of peace and love if you check your history,The Christian church at the time of the crusades made many translations showing non-believers as Evil and Wicked and damned to hell and there justification and right to mass murder millions in the name of Jesus christ,which is still being done today by i might add by G.W.Bush who is a respresentive of the Church.
This is yet another attempt to demonise Islam without trying to understand it properly.
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i happen to watch that episode of Newsnight,what i would like to know who those two so called Islamic Scholars were? ...why didn't they just bring on them on the programme to make there case?...for all we know those interpretations or misinterpretions could have done by anyone under the banner of Islamic Scholars.
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Posted by amnesia
@london-uk, the video also says that those are old text books and that the saudi government has vowed to make sure that any books that are negative will changed and re-interpreted.
It pisses me off how people always cut facts out.
Posted by maggflodd
I remember... About 10 yrs ago, a documentary (I thinkk bbc) about the Vatican's involvment in helping Nazi-scum-mass-murderers escape after wwII - with treasures stolen from their victims. The official vati-cunning reply/justification was that "yadayada, yeah, the Nazis were naughty, but if one compared the statistics, Stalin's russia was much worse"!!! i'm not making this up! That was an archbishoppy guy in purple treating 35+ million dead like a post tournament number-cruncher... Like some bookie. Or, "why did you help Ted Bundy?" - "oh, well stalin killed a lot more people!!!"... relevance, you ask? H*ll, were was the journalistic integrity in this case? The doing your homework? The supposed scholars and their "translations "(remember the translations of chirac's "no, to a UN resolution on Baghdad"... Talk about paraphrasing...)? The context? Specific/narrow (where were those fables )? The wider context?(what do other schools teach?)... Etcetc... When Paxman is good, he's good... When he wants to, he's no different from a Fox lip-servicer-to-the-mob-mentality! We are all left wondering/arguing/suspecting now because it was a totally lacking report - and applying that report's journalistic and ethical standards, you could denounce any- and everyone! imagine you write a novel that deals with racism. Good and bad, blah blah... And when you die, Paxman says, "maggflodd died today. He once stated, n*ggers stink" ... Well, maybe he didn't like my book, so he doesn't mention that I let an evil character say "all n*ggers etc..." H*ll, in a minute some alabama redneck googles "n*gger", and finds me, maggflodd, seemingly a fellow-racist... That newsnight report may have had a real case... unfortunately it didn't deliver... As such it was inciting, biased, devisive and lazy... Teaching the naughty naughty muslims to stand in the corner with a dunce hat on - while the rest of the class goes bonkers.
Posted by ali_baba
I don't say that religion is/was completely CREATED by men. But religion was DEVELOPED by men. Men change rules n theories as he likes. One religious scholar thinks one way, the other thinks another way. Everyone hav his/her conceptions bout God/Gods.
Isn't religion meant to develop peace & harmony b/w humans? Instead we use it to mock, torture, harass, even kill our fellow beings!
Shud i call shame on human race who's digging up their own grave?
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Shud i call shame on God/Gods who 'enlighted' us with the potion called religion?