Foreign
als, they are to be murdered. The
schoolbooks advocate stoning, burn-
ing with fi re, or throwing them off a
building.
YouTube, Only
The books teach that the fraudu-
lent, anti-Semitic tract Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion is valid, sug-
for Terrorists
gesting that Jews conspire to “gain
sole control of the world,” and that By Tim Collie
the Crusades never ended.
“It is militant teaching of the PALESTINIAN
jihad,” says Shea. video-sharing platform devoted
Experts charge Saudi textbooks are B
ILLED AS THE FIRST
to “jihad audio-visual produc-
vicious volumes of hatred, teaching tions,” AqsaTube no doubt was a
children as young as fi rst grade age favorite bookmark for the would-be
that they should hate and kill anyone terrorist.
who disagrees with their religion. Dubbed the “terrorist YouTube,”
Cranked out by Saudi Arabian the Web site featured vid-
Ministry of Education printing press- eos detailing how to rig car
es, the schoolbooks’ poison pages bombs and launch shoulder-
call for the murder of Christians and fi red missiles. The site also
Jews, and urge impressionable chil- included video tributes to VIRULENT VIDEO The Web site also
dren to slaughter “unbelievers” who deceased suicide bombers.
featured how-tos on bombing.
do not follow the violently radical Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist
Islamic teachings. group that controls the Gaza Strip, Web, according to anti-terror experts.
Children in Islamic schools using sponsored the site, whose creators Among those productions, accord-
the texts are taught that Sufi , Sunni, lifted the look and feel of YouTube so ing to the Israel-based Intelligence &
Shiite, and moderate Muslims — Islamist radicals could use it easily. Terrorism Information Center:
and even family members who do Users could watch clips and upload A 38-minute video showing how
not pray and fast in strict adher- their own. to use common household electrical
ence to the tenets of Wahhabism, an The site also brought in revenue, equipment to detonate explosives.
extremist form of fundamental Islam using Google’s AdSense program Videos of children dressed in mili-
— are to be hated. to display ads for businesses in the tary uniforms and singing Hamas
The books refer to Jews as “apes,” country Hamas has vowed to destroy: songs, including one showing tykes
to Christians as “swine,” and say that Israel. drawing rockets during a jingle with
Jews “espouse falsehood through Discovered by an Israeli think tank the words “death is fame and victory.”
“idol-worship, soothsaying, and sor- in mid-October, the site was closed Documentaries glorifying the
cery.” They “obey the devil,” and after publicity revealed it was being run deaths of shaheeds: martyrs, usually
“inundate peoples with vice and ram- through a service provider in France suicide bombers, including a lengthy
pant prostitution.” — but not before the site’s adminis- paean to Yehia Ayash, the infamous
The texts refer to martyrdom, the trators dumped hundreds of hours “engineer” bomb maker who terror-
kind that produces suicide bombers, of infl ammatory material onto the ized Israel in the 1990s.
as a “noble life force” and to jihad, or
holy war, as “the summit of Islam.”
They say “every religion other than U.S. government should insist that only a small percentage of Muslims
Islam is false.” the Saudi government meet these would believe the texts, however.
Several U.S. congressmen have commitments fully,” the commis- “None of those statements are
introduced a resolution calling sion demanded in a June news in the holy Quran or any sayings of
for the State Department to pro- release. the prophets,” he asserts. “Politics
vide copies of the textbooks to the Bashir el-Darwish, principal of got into religion. We teach toler-
U.S. Commission on International the Islamic Academy of Peace in ance and always encourage chil-
Religious Freedom and to monitor Methuen, Mass., and a respected dren to learn and make friends
Saudi alteration of the texts. “The Muslim educator, tells Newsmax that with other religions.” C
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