British taxpayers gave £20m to Palestinian schools which teach children that martyrdom and jihad are 'the most important meanings in life'

[*]More than £20 million of British aid given to schools in the Palestinian Authority
[*]But a shocking report reveals that the new curriculum encourages martyrdom
[*]A textbook explained physics showing a boy with a slingshot targeting soldiers

A government minister has admitted that more than £20 million of British aid money is being spent on schools in Palestine that teach children about jihad and martyrdom. A report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education reveals that the Palestinian Authority school curriculum 'utilizes a variety of tools to convince children—mostly boys—to risk their lives and die as martyrs'.  

Alistair Burt, the aid minister, admitted in parliamentary answers that British taxpayers are funding the salaries of 33,000 teachers who follow the curriculum that also promotes violence against Israel.

The report also revealed that the word Israel 'typically appears as the Zionist Occupation' throughout the curriculum which has been accused of exerting pressure on young Palestinians to be martyrs.   It goes on to highlight some of the lessons that are being funded by British aid. A science textbook Newton's second law of physics by using an image of a boy with a slingshot targeting soldiers, to explain power, mass, and tensile strength. It reads: 'Palestinian youths used slingshots to confront the soldiers of the Zionist occupation and defend themselves from their treacherous bullets. What is the relationship between the elongation of the slingshot's rubber and the tensile strength affecting it?'


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The Daily Mail wrote:A government minister has admitted that more than £20 million of British aid money is being spent on schools in Palestine that teach children about jihad and martyrdom.

Clearly, an idea that is completely misunderstood.  Gd on the British government for recognizing this.  It's not all slash and burn.

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Jihad and martyrdom are a personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.  It is a crusade for a principle or belief.  We mistakenly believe that jihad means an armed struggle, but as the Islamic Supreme Council makes clear, it is an internal struggle for betterment:

Islamic Supreme Council wrote:Jihad is not a violent concept.

Jihad is not a declaration of war against other religions. It is worth noting that the Koran specifically refers to Jews and Christians as "people of the book" who should be protected and respected. All three faiths worship the same God. Allah is just the Arabic word for God, and is used by Christian Arabs as well as Muslims.

Military action in the name of Islam has not been common in the history of Islam. Scholars says most calls for violent jihad are not sanctioned by Islam.

Warfare in the name of God is not unique to Islam. Other faiths throughout the world have waged wars with religious justifications

The idea of warfare is a metaphor for purification.  Indeed, the Bible similarly speaks of a "spiritual fight".  Matthew Poole wrote of such a struggle:

NKIV wrote:. . . you are as soldiers fighting against the world, the flesh, and the devil; do not behave yourselves like children, whom the least opposition will terrify and throw down; but like men, with a spiritual courage and fortitude, becoming such who have so good a Captain, and so good a cause.

As the Bible, in 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 makes clear:

The truth is that, although we lead normal human lives, the battle we are fighting is on the spiritual level. The very weapons we use are not human but powerful in God's warfare for the destruction of the enemy's strongholds.  phillips

Paul uses the same warfare metaphor to drive home a spiritual point, as does the Koran. https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/1767/Military-Metaphor.htm

It is good that the British are making efforts to clarify this.

"...the Koran specifically refers to Jews and Christians as "people of the book" who should be protected and respected..."


The koran does indeed refer to Christians as 'people of the book'... but can you show me how the rest of that is true...!?

Also...

'Jihad is not a violent concept.'

And...

'Military action in the name of Islam has not been common in the history of Islam.'





What a load of utter bullshit!!!

"Onward Christian Soldiers.
Marching on to war..."

The Crusades, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria...

Speaks for itself.

"...the Koran specifically refers to Jews and Christians as "people of the book" who should be protected and respected..."


The koran does indeed refer to Christians & Jews as 'people of the book'... but can you show me how the rest of the above highlighted claim is true...!?

Clearly Quill has lost the plot.

Maybe he wants to provide Merrian Websters Dictionary definition of Jihad, to many Islamic extremists. Including those teaching violent Jihad to children and even worse through martyrdom in Gaza and the West Bank.

Tantamount to child abuse. Where these same Palestinian extremists have used child suicide bombers and have child soldiers.

Hence why its about time countries actually stood up to this hate being constantly taught. Which has been going unabated in the Palestinian terrorities, even before the creation of Israel. The major factor people miss. Take the massacre in Hebron 1929 for example.

All of which stems from 3 fundemental Islamic doctrines.

Transgression (even though its Muslims that generally have been the transgressors through history. The Arab and Ottoman conquests and Arabization of the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe), armed Jihad and martyrdom.

It is these 3 aspets based around Islam, that has driven Islamic expansion, fundementalism and terrorism. Which has been going on since the creation of Islam. From the moment Islam split into Shia and Sunni, terrorism was used. To the later Nizari Ismailis Assassins to even under Ottoman rule, the Wahhabi Muslims were waging carnage and bloodshed against the Ottoman.

Adherants of Islam, have been waging a bloody and expansionist war, since its conception. It was only checked at the Siege of Malta, 1565 and Gates of Vienna in 1526, with the Ottomans defeated

If you look at who started all this, then it was the Arab Imperial colonialists. When they conquered the Middle East, Norther Africa, Spain, Balklans, Malta, Sicily, parts of Italy and were cheked at the Battle of Tours in France by the Franks in 754. If the Franks had not won that day. It is widely believe, Quill, would now be called Quillhummad and the local Sharia Judge sitting in Meccafornia.

Islamic rulers had been waging wars since its conception and for near on 1600 years. So by your reasoning, the crusades and the recent wars in the Middle East were just a reaction to this imperial Arabization that started with the creation of Islam.

This is why there is no peace in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. As seen, the Palestinian authority use Islam, to teach hate instead of peace. They would rather continue to hate Israeli, that have peace and their own state.
And Islam, is at the forefront of this teaching

Hence why the British Governement has had enough and will not be a part of this child abuse, where Palestinian authorities continue to teach generation after generation to hate and needlessly kill themselves in the name of islam

I like the Muslim people. Obviously, Conservatives do not. That's why you guys rape, torture and kill them.

You should learn to love thy neighbor.

Original Quill wrote:I like the Muslim people.  Obviously, Conservatives do not.  That's why you guys rape, torture and kill them.

You should learn to love thy neighbor.

I have no issue with Muslims, which again you miss the point on. I challenge poor beliefs and the beliefs of Islam, have led to near perpetual war with many nations. Many of which they started countless times through history.

Dont see anyone advocating torture and rape. Or shall we again look at the long history of Islam on this?
Shall we start with their sexual slaves and how this is endorsed in the Quran?

So I see you bowed out as usual when it came to me correcting your poor historical revisionism

The more I read Quill's posts the more I think he's a Spanner short of a Toolbox !

nicko wrote:The more I read Quill's posts  the more I think he's a Spanner short of a Toolbox !

"A spanner short of a toolbox?" Is that like someone who tolerates Muslims?

See what I mean posters?