Saudi Arabia: US Needs To Cut off Aid to Saudi Arabia For Extremist Views in Textbooks

Despite Saudi Arabia's promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language.

The recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C., and the translations were first provided to Fox News.

"This is where terrorism starts, in the education system." Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, told Fox News. Al-Ahmed, a Saudi national, said the textbooks, made and paid for by the Saudi government, were smuggled out of the kingdom through confidential sources.

In a textbook for 10th-graders, printed for the 2010-2011 academic year, al-Ahmed said teenagers are taught barbaric practices. "They show students how to cut (the) hand and the feet of a thief," he said. In another textbook, for ninth-graders, the students are taught the annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative. One text reads in part: "The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. ... There is a Jew behind me come and kill him."

According to the textbook translations provided to Fox News, women are described as weak and irresponsible. And al-Ahmed said the textbooks call for homosexuals to be put to death "because they pose a danger at society, as the Saudi school books teaches."

Al-Ahmed say the textbooks are both a Saudi and an American problem. "If you teach six million children in these important years of their lives, if you install that in their brain, no wonder we have so many Saudi suicide bombers."

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, there was an intense focus on Saudi Arabia and its educational teachings because almost all of the attackers were from the kingdom. In 2006, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki al-Faisal told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relationships that the Saudi king was determined to eradicate this ideology of hate.

"In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah recognizes that above all else education is the key, and he has put forth a program of reforms in this area," al-Faisal said. "In recent years, the kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education. Not only have we eliminated what is objectionable from old textbooks that were in our system, we have also implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan. "

But the new textbooks, most from the 2010-2011 academic year, show the hateful speech remains.

In Atlanta earlier this month, the Saudi minister responsible for the textbooks talked about the importance of education for woman. Asked by Fox News about the textbooks, Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Al-Saud said, "I always say to people, please come. Come, try to see us. But come without a preconceived idea. ... Especially when you want to raise the future, no one is going to introduce violence. Violence is absolutely against - I think this is, I don't know who put in those ideas."

When Fox News offered to show the quotes to the minister, he said, "there are many quotes" and walked away.

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[alprincenet]

I have one Q which is did you or did america or any one in the world gave Saudi Arabia the Oil ? the answer is no,so you didn't do any thing for us,you didn't build any thing for us,in same time you didn't give any favor , and to let you know,the oil prices for america from Saudi Arabia hasn't be change since 50 years or more is around $18 and america sale it around $110,so this's a favor from Saudi Arabia To US.you know whats the problem? just ready to receive any thing the media say

[YouCruising]

@alprincenet

Saudi Arabia under the Ottoman Empire. The West defeated the Ottoman Empire in WWI. Europe & the United States re-designated much of land in the Middle East after the Ottoman Turks defeat.

If the West were really so set on taking oil from Saudi et. al oil rich countries, they certainly had the right after defeating the Ottomans and re-partitioning the land. We didn't do that then, or now.

[YouCruising]

@alprincenet

America and her allies actually did Saudi Arabia and the other oil rich countries a favor by refining that muck in the ground. Without our technologies, countries like Saudi Arabia couldn't reach the crude to refine in the first place.

There are other oil rich countries that were re-partitioned after the Ottoman Turks reign that were never islamic prior (eg. Iran). So, by always saying we're fighting islam or stealing oil is just ridiculous. Just quit being extreme.

[mohazco]

I wounder how can a black man defends the jews policies

[YouCruising]

@mohazco

"I wounder how can a black man defends the jews policies"

Yeah, I know. After all, Israel is allowing in tens of thousands of Sudanese, and Ethiopians from their oppressive islamic countries to come to Israel as refugees. And those darn Jews... they're the same ones that marched with Blacks during the civil rights movement. This while islam still hold slaves in many of their countries.

Yep, why would blacks support Jews instead of righteous islam? Good one ;)

[flaregunsx26x]

I just wanna know something .. Are these guys stupid and illiterate about Saudi Arabia or do they know the truth but they're hiding it ? Everything they're saying is garbage and not true at all !! it's just mind blowing how stupid they are

[husein42]

Charles in 100% correct!!

[abumaram200]

-_-" hi im from ksa ..there is no such a thing cald a wahhabi we are a sunni

[alprincenet]

@YouCruising you didn't do any thing for Ottoman Empire , my grandfa one of the army against Ottoman Empire

[alprincenet]

@YouCruising you are wrong bro ,, trust me china and Japan is away better than US in Technologies and you know that since a years a go , and if we have the choice we would contract with them you know why ?

cuz they are honest countries and you know that

[MrFaisal0860]

@karlashburton

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