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2004-12-13 Europe

Analysis: Education key to fight Islamism

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-13 11:54:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remember, bin Laden and Zawahiri are very well - educated. Education's not the panacea it's cracked up to be.

Posted by doc 2004-12-13 12:29:02 PM|| 2004-12-13 12:29:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's differentiate education (good) from indoctrination (bad), K?

Stop teaching hate, Jooo Lies, and Islam in your schools - unless you want us to treat it as we should: a barbaric superstitious bloodthirsty world-domination ideology cult - eminently worthy of extermination.

Start teaching health and hygiene, for crying out loud - Hint: what hole you put it in does matter. History - the truthful variety - for motivation, and yeah, the West / Great Satan did invent all that shit you love and depend on. Mathematics (so you can begin to live up to the hype), physics so you can understand cause & effect, general science so you can finally discard the moon cult & djinn BS, literature so you can see that you don't have to live as barbarians, etc. We'll save PCBS 101 for when you're ready to complete the cycle and self-destruct.

Posted by .com 2004-12-13 12:46:28 PM|| 2004-12-13 12:46:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Radical European Muslims who volunteered to fight the U.S. invasion of Iraq and who are now reported to be heading back to their respective countries

I guess that means that we've offically won in Iraq. I wonder where they will initiate the next battle?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-13 12:51:03 PM|| 2004-12-13 12:51:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 From the article I'm unable to figure out who needs to be educated.

Do we need to educate radical Islamics in the premise of moderate Islam (I think the author might be getting at this)?

or do we need to educate law enforcement officials about the specific individuals who will be returning from the middle east (maybe the author meant that)?

or do we need to educate the kaft community on what the radical Islamic people believe (don't they know that already)?

Posted by mhw 2004-12-13 3:33:03 PM|| 2004-12-13 3:33:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Antoine Sfeir, editor of a French publication specializing in Arab affairs, conducted a survey of several thousand young French Muslims. He was surprised to learn that despite their claims of adhering to a strict form of Islam, most were unable to name the five pillars of Islam, the basic tenets of the religion.

So these people don't know the five pillars of Islam. Big deal. The Islamozoids doing the inciting would be fools to demand that the foot soldiers doing the dirty work be fully knowledgable in Islam's nuts and bolts (and let's face it, these less-than-enlightened folk would definitely be doing the dying on behalf of the clerics). As long as these young, French Muslim suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H recruits believe in the cause, then that's good enough, which is usually independent of whether they've been "educated" or not.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-13 5:32:11 PM|| 2004-12-13 5:32:11 PM|| Front Page Top