Saudi-Funded UN Agency Seeks to Edit Textbooks Worldwide

Saudi-Funded UN Agency Seeks to Edit Textbooks Worldwide

The UN agency that promotes education and which is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, is seeking to edit school textbooks worldwide

By Rachel Hirshfeld  10/18/2012, 10:44 AM

Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

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The UN agency that promotes education and which is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, is seeking to edit school textbooks worldwide.
Saudi Arabia, along with much of the Arab world, is notorious for publishing grade-school textbooks that advocate hate and aggression against Jews, Christians and all “non-believers”.

Yet, experts from 21 countries met in Paris last month at a meeting financed by a $29,000 Saudi donation and focused, in part, on "ways to ensure that content aimed at students systematically reflects cultural and religious diversity, and avoids gender stereotypes," according to the website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Then, last week, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah donated $20 million to UNESCO's emergency fund, Fox News reported.

Author of the upcoming book "Saudi School Books: Objective Education or Extremist Indoctrination?", Ali AlAhmed affirmed that, "Saudi textbooks are extremely hateful and full of xenophobic texts."
Saudi funding "shows how xenophobic governments like [that of] the Saudis are able to buy influence," Al Ahmed said, according to Fox News.

He said UNESCO was failing to uphold "value and standards of education and tolerance" and warned that UNESCO and the UN system as a whole are "susceptible to financial buyouts from countries like Saudi Arabia."

Saudi Arabian children are taught, among other things that, “Adhering to Islam is the only path to enter heaven, and escape hellfire” and "It is from Islam to love Muslims, and to hate the unbelievers and not to imitate them." The textbooks also indoctrinate children to believe that "Examples of false religions [include] Judaism, Christianity."
Nonetheless, a UNESCO official has said that the financial support of all members, including Saudi Arabia, is welcomed.

"Each country has the ultimate responsibility for the content of its national textbooks," said Qian Tang, UNESCO's assistant director general for education, according to Fox."UNESCO's aim is to encourage and support those responsible (in ministries of education) for the writing and production of textbooks to reflect on how textbook content should promote respect and tolerance for diversity and eliminate all forms of negative stereotypes. "

However, Brooke Goldstein, director of The Lawfare Project, a non-profit legal think-tank based in New York asserted that, "Posturing as though Saudi Arabia's contribution to UNESCO is somehow going to better reflect cultural and religious diversity and avoid gender stereotypes is an outright lie."

"By working with Saudi Arabia to revise its children's curriculum, UNESCO is not only legitimizing the Kingdom's hate-education system, but abetting the premeditated murder of innocent Muslim children and fomenting educational conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism," he said, according to Fox. "It should be no surprise, but is nonetheless of utmost concern, that the Saudis are actively working to influence UNESCO's education curriculum."

In a scathing editorial in The Daily Beast on Wednesday, major American publishers—including a former Random House chairman, a CEO of Time Warner Book Group and publisher at Amazon, a publisher of Simon and Schuster, among others—denounced Saudi textbooks for inciting hatred and promoting intolerance.

“As current and former heads of major American publishing houses, we know the value of words. They inform actions and shape the world views of all, especially children. We are writing to express our profound disappointment that the Saudi government continues to print textbooks inciting hatred and violence against religious minorities,” the editorial stated.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161061#.UH_QWcXA-55

Survey Finds Anti-Semitic Attitudes Rising

Hate Crimes At Queens Libraries and Jewish Temple

Hate Crimes At Queens Libraries and Jewish Temple: MyFoxNY.com

Survey Finds Anti-Semitic Attitudes Rising

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MYFOXNY.COM - Swastikas were found painted on the facades of the Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst branches of the Queens Library and on the door of Congregation Tifereth Israel on Thursday.

The Anti-Defamation League today condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti. The ADL says there were 133 anti-Jewish incidents reported across New York City in 2010.

A nationwide ADL survey released just yesterday found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen in America.

The ADL survey found that 15 percent of Americans - nearly 35 million adults - hold deeply anti-Semitic views. That's up three percent from 2009.

"The fact that anti-Semitic attitudes have increased significantly over the past two years is troubling and raises questions about the impact of broader trends in America - financial insecurity, social uncertainty, the decline in civility and the growth of polarization - on attitudes toward Jews," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

19-percent answered "probably true" to the statement "Jews have too much control/influence on Wall Street," an increase from 14-percent in 2009.

Several cases of anti-Semitism have been documented at various Occupy Wall Street across the country.

The survey also found that anti-Semitic views among the African-American population have remained steady, but are consistently higher than the general population.

In 2011, 29-percent of African-Americans expressed strongly anti-Semitic views, according to the survey. SOURCE:

Christian Jihadist: Antisemitic Christianity

"The Israeli Apartheid Wall Divides Beit Jala?"

http://www.sizers.org/photos/beitjalawall/index.html

One can see in photos by this Christian leader of an assembly in the U.K. and by reading his album descriptions: it's obvious where he stands with Israel.

"Herod's Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem Today"(IDF) Says photo album by Church Pastor Stephen Sizer of Christ Church Virginia Water, U.K. [1]

"The Israeli Apartheid Wall in Occupied Palestine"

Resisting the Israeli Occupation non-violently in Al Ma'sara, Palestine

"Occupied Jerusalem"

Illegal Settlements

Etc.

"I am in Toronto, Canada for a three day conference arranged by the Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group. The aim is to create a common framework for extended conversation between Evangelical Christian and Muslim scholars and religious leaders. The ultimate goal is to commit ourselves to a dialogue that will build a deep and lasting trust that will remain despite any obstacles that may arise." [2]

Stephen Sizer
Vicar and Senior Pastor

"As an evangelical Anglican church, we belong to the Diocese of Guildford within the Church of England yet welcome you whatever your spiritual background. Our church family is enriched by folk from many different denominations.
Christ Church is a member of the Willow Creek Association and the Evangelical Alliance. We work in partnership with UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), New Word Alive and the Christianity Explored Course.
Our Church Council has endorsed the Jerusalem Declaration.
Stephen, Ro and Francis, our three ordained pastors, support GAFCON and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) as well as the South East Gospel Partnership"

Church of England - Christian?

An associated assembly [3]
The carol Twelve Days of Christmas was sung as:
"Twelve assassinations/
Eleven homes demolished/
Ten wells obstructed/
Nine sniper towers/
Eight gunships firing/
Seven checkpoints blocking/
Six tanks a-rolling/
Five settlement rings. Four falling bombs/
Three trench guns/
Two trampled doves/
And an uprooted olive tree."

"It was appalling to see a church allow one of its most endearing seasonal traditions to be hijacked by hatred," Prosor told the Times, accusing the Church of having failed to condemn such a carol which provokes anti-Semitism and disregards years of efforts to bridge gaps between the two religions.

"Unfortunately, the criticism from within the Church of England, that should have echoed with bold moral clarity, has instead sounded like a silent night, but far from holy,"

"Ron Prosor, Israel's Ambassador in Britain lashed out against the Church of England on Wednesday for having approved an anti-Israel carol that was sung as part of a service, according to the Times of London."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-israeli-envoy-to-u-k-accuses-church-service-of-being-anti-semitic-1.259248

http://www.cc-vw.org/index.php?id=45&level=2

http://www.sizers.org/photos.htm

Herod's Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem Today

http://www.sizers.org/photos/soldiers/index.html

Here is a resent article by the man of God, Vicar and Senior Pastor Sizer

"Seven Biblical Answers to Popular Zionist Assumptions"

http://www.stephensizer.com/2011/08/seven-biblical-answers-to-zionist-assumptions/