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To: carranza2 who wrote (223428)3/9/2007 5:47:57 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Are they anything like the textbooks CIA produced for the Afghan kids?

Incredibly, the U.S. taxpayer--through the CIA and Agency for International Development--also helped underwrite an "educational program" created by the University of Nebraska that "consisted of blatant Islamist propaganda, including creation of children's textbooks in which young Afghanis were taught to count by enumerating dead Russian soldiers and adding up Kalashnikov rifles, all of it imbued with Islamic fundamentalist rhetoric," recounts Dreyfuss. Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, occupation authorities had the task of collecting and replacing the CIA-funded Taliban textbooks which, as the Washington Post noted, "were filled with talk of Jihad."



To: carranza2 who wrote (223428)3/9/2007 6:05:52 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
First, let me say that this type of textbook is dangerous. I don't know what it takes to get a book like this out of the curriculum, but it needs to be done.

Has it, I hope?

Second, your article points out the books are Saudi in origin.


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