Islamic Indoctrination vs. Education
By Nonie Darwish
Remember the Muslim Television executive, Muzzammil Hassan, who decapitated his wife near Buffalo, New York? His TV station, Bridges TV, was created to promote the idea that Islam is a religion of peace and friendship. This station’s goals perfectly fit with the intense Saudi PR machine, which is spending tons of money to change the image of Islam in the West — even if it takes denials, fabrications and outright lies.
Several years ago, I debated Othman Shibly, a U.S. citizen of Syrian origin and a Sharia expert, on a Bridges TV program directed by his son, Hassan Shibly. Both bearded men are fierce apologists for Radical Islam and defend Sharia. Dr. Shibly holds a Sufi/Radical Islamist ideology and hides behind a thin veneer of “moderate” Islam, but that façade does not fool someone like myself from the same background. The Shiblys make no attempt to repudiate the claims of men like Hizbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, or other radical Islamists like Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro, the Mufti of the Syrian Ministry of Religion under the regimes of both Hafiz and Bashar Assad and Kuftaro’s protégé, Sheikh Rajab Deeb. My interview with the two men was never aired and the Shiblys never sent me a copy of the taped interview as they promised.
That brings me to an email I recently received from a concerned American mother, who said that she was horrified at what her child is being taught by Islamic guest speakers at her child’s high school, Clarence High School in Clarence, New York. The speakers are none other than Hassan and Othman Shibly, who are now lecturing our kids on Islam at New York state public schools. That is done with the help of politically correct apologist educators.
Under their curriculum on the Ancient World, the New York State public schools as well as many other states around the country, require students to be taught about Islam, the spread of Islam, the Golden Age of Islam and the conflict between Muslims and Christians as part of the Crusades. That topic almost always turns political and accusatory when Muslims get very emotional about their history, jihad and religion. Islam by nature is extremely political and promotes a very elaborate legal system that Muslims must live under. To accommodate Islamic education with Western principals of freedom and the Bill of Rights is an impossible task. The two ideologies are at opposite poles in terms of the role of government, human rights, as well as women and minority rights.
Thus, the two systems must eventually become villains. To avoid being politically incorrect, public schools prefer to use Muslims experts or clerics rather than public school teachers to teach the topic of Islam. Our educational hierarchy refuses to see that many devout Muslim experts have a political agenda and are themselves indoctrinated and thus always on the defensive or offensive. I can only imagine what the poor American kids are subjected to. I was on the receiving end of such indoctrination when I was a young Muslim girl.
This is what the mother wrote to me:
“Hello Mrs. Darwish:
I need your help addressing a serious problem I’m currently trying to handle. Recently, my child came home from school and told me about a presentation his Global Studies 9 class had that was given by a man by the name of Hassan Shibly. My child was shocked and visibly shaken at home and told me about the things this man said to the class. The pretext for the presentation was for Mr. Shibly to talk to the class about Islam and dispel some of the ‘misunderstandings’ and ‘Islamophobia.’ Here are some of the things he said to these boys and girls:
‘ The September 11th attacks occurred because of America’s blind support of Israel and the men who carried out the attack were not Muslims, but atheists.’
‘Terrorism is an example of people reacting with their hearts and not their minds…if someone insulted your mother, wouldn’t you retaliate against them? Allah is more important than anything to a Muslim, and if you insult Allah, a Muslim can do anything to defend his belief.’
‘The news media lie…when a Muslim does something, they’re labeled as a Muslim while people of other religions who commit crimes are never identified by their religion.’”
She added that Hassan Shibly’s father, Othman, also came to speak at the school but to a different class. She expressed her outrage that these men were invited into a school to indoctrinate underage, impressionable minds with hate a filled ideology and a hidden agenda. She stated that she alerted the principal to a few links that show Shibly’s affiliations and added that she doesn’t think the principal is convinced. She concluded by saying that so far a decision has not been made whether to bring the Shilbys back to teach or not.
I was speechless after reading this woman’s e-mail. That is outrageous and what is worse is that I have heard similar claims from mothers in California where I live. I wanted to tell all the concerned mothers of America to stand up against this kind of “education” and never feel helpless. We must all speak out before the indoctrination strikes America at the heart. Perhaps this can be one of the causes of the Tea Party Movement. There are powerful forces trying to indoctrinate American children when it comes to Islam. Like I was as a Muslim kid, our kids are being discouraged and shamed from thinking for themselves when it comes to 9/11 or finding out the truth about Islamic terrorism. Their minds must never wander or, Allah forbid, blame Muslim culture or Islam for producing a never ending flow of terrorists.
Muslim propaganda is relentless in trying to misportray Islam in the eyes of the West. While mainstream mosques and Muslim leaders across the globe are shouting jihad, death to America, death to the Jews, and encouraging Muslims to take over the West, our children are told if you fear such threats you are an Islamophobe. When mainstream Muslim schools and universities teach that apostates must be killed and that jihad means “to war with non-Muslims to establish the religion” and that jihad is a permanent war institution against Jews Christians and pagans, we are told to never dare misinterpret this as encouraging violence. Islamic education, like communism and Fascism, must control children’s minds, which is the best system to produce adults who will submit.
I am not the one who compared Islam to communism and fascism; this comparison was made by none other than the most prominent Muslim scholar of the 20th century, Sheikh Abu Ala Maududi, who stated in his book, “Islamic Law and Constitution,” on p. 262, that the Islamic State:
“seeks to mould every aspect of life and activity…. In such a state no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic State bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.” Maududi added “Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam.”
I wonder if the Shiblys will condemn this popular Muslim scholar to their students or perhaps call him an atheist.
Muslim petro-dollar powers have penetrated our educational system with permission and support from the highest levels of our governments. I cannot blame many teachers and school principles forced to teach this garbage and who are themselves subjected to demeaning sensitivity training on Islam. I blame the people on the top who are hell-bent on promoting Muslim propaganda with the blessings of Saudi Arabia.
If such propaganda continues, future generations in America will gradually become confused. They will doubt their instincts and their sense of good judgment will be weakened. Like the restless and confused populations of the Middle East, they will build tolerance to violence, extremism, hatred, discrimination, anti-Semitism and oppression of women and minorities.
Because of my background, I can smell and taste Muslim propaganda. It is coming to a school near you. The danger is, believe it or not, if you grow up with such propaganda, it can feel and sound normal and even holy. Intentionally or unintentionally, in the name of tolerance, we are bringing up a generation of Americans who will tolerate Islamic Jihad, in the name of cultural relativism and compassion.
Islamic tyranny, like all tyrannies, must use lies, propaganda and fabrications to justify the Muslim duty of jihadist violence to expand and conquer the world for Islam and Sharia. That is why the Arab world is having great difficulty in modifying its hate-filled educational system. Instead of changing, it is trying to change us and desensitize us to its violence.
If this is not immediately corrected, it will be one of the biggest mistakes in American history. What Mr. Shibly was teaching our kids is outright Arab propaganda justifying jihad, 9/11, retaliation as self-defense, and conspiracy theories against Israel. How monumentally foolish and dangerous it is to allow the likes of the Shiblys to have access to American high school kids.
Nonie Darwish is the co-founder of FormerMuslimsUnited.com and the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment.
This article was originally published in FrontPage Magazine.
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no matter the treachery of all the nations toward Israel;
GOD intents to fight for them and turn all that oil into
'burning pitch'
Isa 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.........
and why?
Isa 34:8 ¶ For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the CONTROVERY OF ZION.
Golda Meir said it best many years ago, "When the Arabs love their children more than the hate the Jews, then we will have peace."
I get a laugh (although not a pleasant one) when I hear all the propaganda about Israel being the "occupiers." One look at a world map and it is very evident that Israel is a very small nation surrounded by very large Arab nations. How this little sliver of land that is Israel is called an occupier is beyond any rational thought. Anyone who falls for this line of crap is a fool.
If the Arab nations surrounding Israel are so concerned about the Palestinians, why don't they create a "homeland" for them. They certainly have room to absorb another few million people. Kind of makes one think that what they are really after is an excuse to push all the Jews into the Red Sea. Some things never change, read paragraph one again.
Hi, You are correct, I think of the same.
I think that these Arab Nations can afford it as oil wealth have made these Nations with plentry to go around plus all that charities and all that founding of monies to such a small enclave and of people, these palestinians should be the wealthest persons in middle east.
Did we ever ask our selves? that why is it that a) the Gaza - palestinians econmy did not make it - there are practically no industry, if any, it is the agriculture dependent type and what else do these people have??? Schools new and universities if any ???Good starndards and on graduting - JOBS aplenty - ?? So what is now ??? There is nothing to scream off - Just a big pool of humanity feeding on hate and anger spell out by train cleric, mullahs and a system of trained political agenda in the form of Hamas - provider of jobs, money to all who joined and to have an idelogy of kill kill anything Israel.
So that it -
Their Government is one that is an actual terrorist organisation that goes right out to make weapons and buy weapons, train children to kill to be the donkey to transport bombs and act as human child shields to the terrorist fighters, who themselves delight to use their own children and wives for this so called "duty to sacrifice their young lives for such few and miserable
ending.
So if you think it is their way of life? but I am saying that this form of ideology is not even from their so called holy book - it is 'damn' a 'warp mind' to have done this to peaceful people round the world.
The rich arab nations are not wanting to have these palestinians back into their own country because of one thing - that is there is too much at stake here - if allowed to go into example Saudi Arabia - the rich King will fear for his own wealth and position as it would jeapodized his position as King, the very persons the King had sent out to teach and preach in the wabhabi mosques around the world may come back to rule as in IRAN - the monarch was kicked out .
So in all instances, I think it is the twisted facts from their so called book is the culprit that has given rise to all the distortion - infact when I read the translated version I am horrified to find that slavery is an acceptable tenet - here in 21st century - no wonder the muslim woman is just another work horse - can be killed at the slighest wimp for the egoistic male - look at all the U tube and the smuggled tapes out of the middele east countries and also reports of "honour killing done in the name of their faith in present day England even in america where the so called cleric who had beheaded the wife????? what is there these dogs of war cannot do.
So if these are the people today in American soil doing their preaching and taking over your universities and educational system, why in another 1 to 5 years there is in america ''''fire bombed'' cities or even inner cities falling into mass killing and out right murders.Infact there is the 9/11 to show- a fact.
For there should not be anyother word to call these killing - except the word - MURDERED BY Killers and MUSLIM TERRORIST and there shopuld not be a change to called such by any other name.
Hi, You are correct, I think of the same.
I think that these Arab Nations can afford it as oil wealth have made these Nations with plentry to go around plus all that charities and all that founding of monies to such a small enclave and of people, these palestinians should be the wealthest persons in middle east.
Did we ever ask our selves? that why is it that a) the Gaza - palestinians econmy did not make it - there are practically no industry, if any, it is the agriculture dependent type and what else do these people have??? Schools new and universities if any ???Good starndards and on graduting - JOBS aplenty - ?? So what is now ??? There is nothing to scream off - Just a big pool of humanity feeding on hate and anger spell out by train cleric, mullahs and a system of trained political agenda in the form of Hamas - provider of jobs, money to all who joined and to have an idelogy of kill kill anything Israel.
So that it -
Their Government is one that is an actual terrorist organisation that goes right out to make weapons and buy weapons, train children to kill to be the donkey to transport bombs and act as human child shields to the terrorist fighters, who themselves delight to use their own children and wives for this so called "duty to sacrifice their young lives for such few and miserable
ending.
So if you think it is their way of life? but I am saying that this form of ideology is not even from their so called holy book - it is 'damn' a 'warp mind' to have done this to peaceful people round the world.
The rich arab nations are not wanting to have these palestinians back into their own country because of one thing - that is there is too much at stake here - if allowed to go into example Saudi Arabia - the rich King will fear for his own wealth and position as it would jeapodized his position as King, the very persons the King had sent out to teach and preach in the wabhabi mosques around the world may come back to rule as in IRAN - the monarch was kicked out .
So in all instances, I think it is the twisted facts from their so called book is the culprit that has given rise to all the distortion - infact when I read the translated version I am horrified to find that slavery is an acceptable tenet - here in 21st century - no wonder the muslim woman is just another work horse - can be killed at the slighest wimp for the egoistic male - look at all the U tube and the smuggled tapes out of the middele east countries and also reports of "honour killing done in the name of their faith in present day England even in america where the so called cleric who had beheaded the wife????? what is there these dogs of war cannot do.
So if these are the people today in American soil doing their preaching and taking over your universities and educational system, why in another 1 to 5 years there is in america ''''fire bombed'' cities or even inner cities falling into mass killing and out right murders.Infact there is the 9/11 to show- a fact.
For there should not be anyother word to call these killing - except the word - MURDERED BY Killers and MUSLIM TERRORIST and there shopuld not be a change to called such by any other name.
What about christians who killed during the crusades? The american constitiution and educational system that calls for children to pray under 1 God, the christian God in public schools all over the country? While people are still bigoted and narrow minded, one cannot call the United States of America a secular and open country. There are people from every religion, nation and ethnicity who corrupt their traditions, and then are sadly considered the representatives for the bulk of their religions and faiths. No one touts the Ku Klux Klan as the representatives of Christianity and no one looks at terrorist organisations in Israel as being representatives of Judaism. I am not a muslim, and I am not a supporter of any one religion, I am just a tolerant person.
I don't know where to start responding to the contents of your posting since it seems to have no relationship to reality. I am not certain what United States Constitution you are reading when you say:
"The american constitiution and educational system that calls for children to pray under 1 God, the christian God in public schools all over the country."
The word Christian (which should start with a capital C by the way) does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. Our Constitution forbids Congress from making any law which abridges the rights of anyone to the free exercise of religion and that is any religion.(by the way American also should be spelled with a capital A, seems like you don't capitalize words of groups that offend you or you just don't know grammer).
The only "terrorist organisations in Israel" are not Jewish but are Muslim Jihadist groups seeking to kill Jews & destroy the State of Israel.
Despite your claim that "I am not a muslim, and I am not a supporter of any one religion, I am just a tolerant person," it seems that you restrict yourself to attacking Christians & Jews, but are silent on the threats to our nation and civilization coming from Muslim Jihadists.No Christian or Jew took down the twin towers,killed fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Planned to bomb the NYC subway system,use underpants bombs to take down an airplane, etc
You assume too much! Check your spelling, grammer is spelled "grammar". Muslims are not trying to kill Jews nor Christians. Israel originally belonged to Muslims and taken over by Jews. Muslims just want their country back. Check your history... Furthermore, there are killers in every religious group. John Wayne Gace was a serial killer and he was Christian. You can't assume that Christians and Jews don't kill, because they do. Does that mean all Christians are killers...no! Stop generalizing and assuming! You will have to answer for your statements in the after life, whether you believe in it or not. We all will! Muslims are taught to respect all religions and differences, not the radicalism that is protrayed by the media. Don't beleive everything you see on T.V. and hear in the media. They fool a lot of people.
God Bless!
You really believe what you are writing? Then you truly are a stupid moron!
Go Fuck Yourself you weenie appologist wanker..how blunt in thier intentions"To Kill Us"do they have to be...you make me sick,I wanna kick your lame liberal ass!x
It is one thing to pray "under God" and yet another to desire the death of those who don't pray along with you. BIG DIFFERENCE!
Unfortunately the human condition is to be passive until things get so bad that violence naturally erupts. Sometimes it is too late and then it takes a long time before the evil is overthrown. Maybe in the next election better representatives will emerge. But remember it's all about the money. People will sell their country for money. That is the human condition. I don't think it will ever change.
Hello Nonie Darwish,
As a lifelong Zionist, I am inspired by your transformation and the similar examples like yours, Brigitte Gabriel, and Walid Shoebat have reaffirmed my faith in seeing that are sane and enlightened individuals in a world teetering on the brink of plunging into the abyss. You and those mentioned are a ray of hope in an ever-increasing darkness.
The level of genocidal insanity that Islamo-Fascists have degenerated down to blatantly shows this is a messianic plague of self-destruction unlike any other in human history. They will endeavor to try to destroy humanity even it if plunges only them into the abyss first. The fact that they are willing hasten their own demise just
to inflict widespread collateral damage on the rest of
the world shows the depth of their depravity.
The fact that they pervert and poison the minds of their innocent children, as per your cited "Educational Threat" to do their dirty work is a tragic obscenity beyond the pale. The other issue most paramount to me is the fact that as much as these murdering criminals who have hijacked the Muslim world, are winning the hearts and minds with seemingly effortless ease, there is an equal ratio of denial, indifference, boredom and weakness globally that aids and abets our mortal enemies.
In their eyes, this is appeasement and capitulation of the worst magnitude. The terms upon which Islamo-Fascists define victory is unprecedented and measured by engagement, inspiration and aspiration. These Islamo-Fascists are dictating the rules and also redefining the landscape of engagement each and every time. The current administration's patented weakness in foolishly and naively redefining terrorist acts as isolated incidents
is exactly the type of confusing mixed messages and understatement those who seek to destroy us count on. If our reactions and responses to their uncivilized barbarism is conflicted and inconsistent, it only succeeds in enabling them and further empowering their evil designs.
For every person like the good Dr. Zhudi Jasser of Phoenix, AZ who shows incredible bravery and conviction by standing up against fellow Muslims, the very few others like him are a toothpick trying to withstand an avalanche. The fact that people like yourself, Dr. Jasser, Walid Shoebat, Nonie Darwish and Brigitte Gabriel are receiving death threats by speaking out against their own shows the true nature of the organizing principal of Islamo-Fascists.
The disease of political correctness and the disease of the left-wing political movements that have been hoodwinked and funded by Muslim money is the biggest threat to America's internal structure and security. The more this country tries to promote an illusion of de-militarization, apologizing for past actions, trying to
curry favor in the Muslim world by strong-arming Israel into a corner and a position of weakness, the more we do to help those who seek to destroy us. No wonder they are delirious with brazen arrogant derision towards us. They are winning!
I cringe at the idea that for decades, radical American Muslims have rabble-roused using the protection of freedom of speech laws to spew hatred, incite violence and worst of all - advocate the overthrow of the US by any and all means, yet none of these radicals to my knowledge have been arrested and tried for sedition, treason or any other offenses.
There still seems to be this self- addiction to a cartoon- like perception of Muslims that they are peculiar, unusual people with little-known cultural differences than us, that keep to themselves and want to be left alone. As we've seen repeatedly, they are neither amusing nor isolationist.
As opposed to the Cold War, the Communists had no presence on US soil. As opposed to the Cold War, this is specifically and totally about religious domination. As opposed to the Cold War, this is about bringing down the US and all other countries from within in a calculated and insidious manner that is going on right now in France, Denmark, the UK, across Africa and in Southeast Asia.
As opposed to the Cold War, the Communists lied to our face at the bargaining table but only revealed their true agenda in secret, the Islamo-Fascists have always been consistently on-point with their very public agenda. The fact they are carrying out their plans right under our
noses and we still seem to think that we're "too big to fail" is alarming and delusional.
Any culture, religion, society or group that is predicated on violence, repression, or hatred, and advocates destruction and genocide is a very clear and present danger. Yet these daily diatribes by the likes of Bin Laden and others who foment this venomous bile, are
always given an an intellectual and moral equivalency by the apologists and appeasers who foolishly believe that this is strictly an intellectual conflict and we can appeal to their intellect.
The more we try to be reasonable with unreasonable people, the more unreasonable they become towards us. The more we engage them, the more they show they have no scruples, hesitation or reservation in showing that their word is meaningless and they can't be believed or even remotely trusted. They will tell anyone what they want to hear and then slit our throats in the process.
Finally, the most frightening aspect to me is that I fear the only way to deal with this situation is to resort to extreme measures. It's the failure that we could have stopped this a long time that has brought us to this point. I'm not concerned about the perception we emote in doing so. As a nation, we are the gold-standard for tolerance and religious freedoms. We are the model of democracy all other democracies are measured against. So we have nothing to apologize to anyone for. We need to stop seeking the validation of the invalid and recapture and redefine the terms upon how we will fight to win this war. Anything less will guarantee failure.
I look forward to your reply to my thought shared here and hope to get started with your organization. Sincerely,
Joel Kirstein
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Hi
I like to put to all who may be reading - This particular religion Islam/Muslim as is known has very unsual followers. a)Followers who are very wise and peaceful and will have good culture etc.and comes in all types of profession or occupation.
b) Another group that is totally nothing like that but will rave and rant and do all kinds of barbaric acts of the low live forms - This group can be in any profession or occupation etc.
However it is still not clear yet - The (a)group of peaceful Islam or muslim can also turned out to be like the (b) group too at anytime - these blokes can suddenly be a terrorist or just plain killers just out of the blue.
So it can be extremely dangerous to mix with them especially the middle eastern kind plus others too in todays' context owing to the so call jihad so call their idea of 'holy war' and this is not directed at the western powers soldiers but targeted the civilian population - ordinary man, woman, children, old people and even sick people too.
The reason I have concluded is after getting to read their "Koran" in translated english version - this so call book is much of a problem as it teaches of uncompromising
war against non-believers and into executing and making slaves out of these unbelievers. And the worst is that these are the exact idealogies or believed values that are taught and is forced into the followers head by the muslim scholars, clerics etc plus their leading muslim/islamic Leadership in the world endorsed it fully under pain of lawful punishment with death.
Gentlemen and Ladies, all this in the 21st Century.
I think it is this evil idea of "Master" of the world kind of attitude that is responsible for the ills of this islam/muslim idealogy.
It is seldom or none at all for other major Religions to have such an attitude and an irresponsbile leadership of the worst kind in the world.
Look at all the funds and charities that is today been given and accepted by these muslims/islamist palestinians - what acutally happen to all the wealth??
Their economy did not turned out well, their scholars sent overseas to America to study did not study but to demomstrate and call for war against any country - this is crazy.
I wonder "HOW CAN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES ACCEPT SUCH STUDENTS" ???.
Why such student places can be given to other countries that have genunine students not 'rubbish' that come to kill rob and cause diharmony to all races and chaos to the American Culture of Learning, peace, democratic interchange of ideas and freedom of learning.
I wonder if the American Home Land Security realises that these form of students or exchange professors or teachers are nothing but "Disrupters of American Society and also instruments of Terrorism and hidden security risks of the worst kind.
Regards,
Awared after reading their idealogy.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what IS happening! Far too much of the radical left consists of Jews who know nothing of their own people and religion - but are passionate about defending the "dispossessed" from "ethnic cleansing" (funny,... they never say a word about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were "dispossessed" of everything they owned before being "ethnically cleansed" from the Arab homelands, where they had lived for hundreds and thousands of years!).
Could you imagine if a Jewish person came into a class how Israel would be Villified should he teach a doctrine saying lies on Judaism....