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To: AK2004 who wrote (19135)	2/6/2003 6:26:06 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

JEWS ARE ‘WICKED' IN SAUDI TEXTBOOKS By NILES LATHEM February 5, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Saudi schoolchildren are fed a steady diet of hatred toward Jews and Westerners in government-sponsored textbooks, raising new questions about the desert kingdom's public commitment to moderation, a new report yesterday showed. The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace and the American Jewish Committee released a shocking analysis of 93 books that were part of the curricula of more than 2,000 Saudi schools in first through 10th grades from 1999 through 2002. The report concluded that the books, supplied by the government's Ministry of Education, promote anti-Semitism and intolerance toward Western ideas such as democracy and freedom of speech. The schoolbooks analyzed in the report portray Islam as the only true religion and claim other religions are false. Israel and Jews are frequently denounced as "wicked," "sly" and "crooked," and maps in geography books label Israel as occupied Palestine. "Now Palestine is occupied by the Jews, a people of treachery and betrayal who have gathered there from every place, Poland, Spain, America and elsewhere. Their end, by God's will, is perdition," read an eighth-grade dictation exercise. Christianity and Western ideas are often given similar treatment in the Saudi textbooks, as history and geography books are filled with passages about the evils of the Crusaders. The books say the current spread of Western ideals represents a danger to all Muslims. nypost.com

To: AK2004 who wrote (19135)	2/8/2003 1:24:26 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

let's be blunt here: none of us care all that much about "innocent iraqis" being gassed or bludgeoned or whatever. if we really cared about needless deaths in a land far far away we'd be talking about the tribalcide going on in africa. what happened in iraq is nothing compared to that. i DO care that saudi arabia is not only a legitimate potential threat but has actually DONE IT. nine eleven really happened. lots of people really died for no good reason. and by running with this iraqi distraction the administration is letting them get away with it. the saudis are getting every penny's worth of administration that they paid for. iraq did nothing to the united states. it did attack two horribly oppressive regimes - but then, isn't that what the US is trying to do? before explaining why we are going after iraq, please explain why we are not dealing with the real, demonstrable threat posed by the saudis? and why we continue to call them "friend" and "ally"? does oil money really talk that loudly in this administration?