Saturday, December 14, 2013

Pakistan's Student Textbooks Indoctrinate Children to be "Indifferent" to Non-Muslim Pakistani Lives



WND reports about Pakistani blogger  Bakhtawar Bilal Soofi:

A Pakistani Muslim who admits he was indifferent to the deaths of non-Muslims in the 9/11 terror attacks is calling for the nation’s school textbooks to be revised to balance the “glorification of war” with a recognition of the sanctity of life, including Jewish and Christian lives....

Describing himself, he noted when the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks killed thousands in America, he “descended into a mode of celebration upon discovering that the towers were in ‘non-Pakistani’ territory and that a significant majority of the dead were non-Muslims.”

End quote.

He says in his report:

"After some pondering, I realized that my response to the events of 9/11 points towards an educational
system that is deeply flawed, particularly the content of our textbooks. The factual inaccuracies, historical
inconsistencies, and the inherent bias that permeates these books has been criticized on numerous occasions –
the most prominent being The Murder of History by KK Aziz.

~MEMRI report

There is a problem however, and that is that the foundation of Islam is built on the same things: falsehoods ("factual inaccuracies", "historical inconsistencies") and glorification of violence and war against non-Muslim nations and people (namely Jews and Christians).

So it's good that one man recongizes at least part of the error of his thinking. However, the problem still remains because the root of the problem is still there: the quran and hadiths.

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