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In yet another example of how school textbooks are painting a whitewashed, sanitized picture of Islam, the story below describes how a defender of this approach defines “jihad.”
Reza Aslan, a “religion scholar,” defines “jihad” as “to do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil.” She goes on to say, “how you interpret [jihad] is based on whatever your particular ideology, or world viewpoint, or even prejudice is.”
Indeed! And those like Aslan are doing everything they can to cover up how the holy books of Islam “interpret” jihad.
Here are just a few examples from one of the two most authoritative Hadith (Sahih Bukhari), the sayings and traditions of Mohammed. This Hadith is regarded as holy in Islam. Let’s see how Mohammed “interpreted” jihad.
“The man who fights so that Islam should dominate is the man who fights for Allah’s cause.”
“To battle non-Muslims in jihad for even one day is greater than the entire earth and everything on it.”
“I have been directed to fight the non-Muslim until every one of them admits, 'There is only one god and that is Allah.'”
“Anyone who arms a jihadist is rewarded just as a fighter would be…”
“If a man, motivated by belief in Allah and the promises Allah makes, gives a horse to be used for jihad, he will be rewarded on Judgment Day…”
Do these sound like exhortations to struggle against "temptation" to you?
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We must be armed with the truth and be well-organized to resist the kind of re-write of history and Islamic doctrine described below.
Council: Montgomery schools cave to pressure with Islam bookLeah Fabel, The Examiner 2008-06-07 12:21:05.0 http://www.examiner.com/a-1429570~Council__Mongtomery_schools_cave_to_pressue_with_Islam_book.html
Washington, D.C. -
A new report issued by the American Textbook Council says books approved for use in local school districts for teaching middle and high school students about Islam caved in to political correctness and dumbed down the topic at a critical moment in its history.
"Textbook editors try to avoid any subject that could turn into a political grenade," wrote Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, who railed against five popular history texts for "adjust[ing] the definition of jihad or sharia or remov[ing] these words from lessons to avoid inconvenient truths."
Sewall complains the word jihad has gone through an "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation of violence. He cites Houghton Mifflin's popular middle school text, "Across the Centuries," which has been approved for use in Montgomery County Schools. It defines "jihad" as a struggle "to do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil."
"But that is, literally, the translation of jihad," said Reza Aslan, a religion scholar and acclaimed author of "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam." Aslan explained that the definition does not preclude a militant interpretation.
"How you interpret [jihad] is based on whatever your particular ideology, or world viewpoint, or even prejudice is," Aslan said. "But how you define jihad is set in stone."
A statement from Montgomery County Public Schools said that all text used by teachers had been properly vetted and were appropriate for classroom uses.
Aslan said groups like Sewall's are often more concerned about advancing their own interpretation of Islam than they are about defining its parts and then allowing interpretation to happen at the classroom level.
Sewall's report blames publishing companies for allowing the influence of groups like the California-based Council on Islamic Education to serve throughout the editorial process as "screeners" for textbooks, softening or deleting potentially unflattering topics within the faith.
"Fundamentally I'm worried about dumbing down textbooks," he said, "by groups that come to state education officials saying we want this and that - and publishers need to find a happy medium."
Maryland state delegate Saqib Ali refrained from joining the fray. "The job of assigning curriculum is best left to educators and the school board, and I trust their judgment," he said.
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In today's world we have to make nice to everyone. Heaven forbid that we offend someone or tell the truth about something.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school (many, many years ago), we were taught the truth about history. Now days history isn't taught. We teach cultural anthropology instead. And we do it with a PC bias. This is a disservice to our children who will not learn about the past but only that we all are equal and good.
. sadly now we have to listen to Conrad and Dudd LYING with conviction about not really having received favorite treatment by Countryside loans and getting away with it... THE on Air Lying started with BUBBA " I did not have..." and it seems to have become the acceptable NEW way with the Youth and horses rear ended Liberals....Morals, ethics, Honesty are ONLY taught in small private religious schools ...
ReplyDeleteI guess the rational for any kind of aberrant behavior fit's Aslan's interpreation.
ReplyDelete"Reza Aslan, a “religion scholar,” defines “jihad” as “to do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil.” She goes on to say, “how you interpret [jihad] is based on whatever your particular ideology, or world viewpoint, or even prejudice is.”"
So now, we have Jihad as an equal opportunity institution.
I'll re-iterate my mantra that hey have learned to use all the Western methodolgies of progress to ameliorate their barbaric, Muslim, image.