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January 26, 2009

Dear Binky Corps & Minions:

By their books, you shall know them– Saudi Textbooks Incite Hatred & Violence against non-Muslims Dr. Sami Alrabaa.

Here’s the question I need some of you to answer for me:

  1. What books are currently in use in Islamic schools and kid’s education in mosques?
  2. Where are they published?
  3. What do they teach? About Islam, other religions, Jews, the West, women, same-sex behaviour? Quotes, page-numbers, authors, dates, publishers, the whole deal.

You have your orders: let’s get some.

Binks

saudi-woman

Saudi Family Values

UPDATE: Oddly enough, the above photo has excited more Muslim comment than the actual text of this or any other posting. It appears to be a model or display of some sort about stoning, not an actual stoning itself. Which raises the question: are the commenters also denying the reality of harsh religious punishments, including stoning, in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere? That rigorist Islam is not actually fond of violent punishment not only for crimes, but sins? It`s easy enough to Google `stoning, Islam` and see gory pictures, mostly of women, battered to death in such ways– and presumably not by their fellow Anglicans.

B