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alexandra
The surprising origins of the current "Jihad"
Well, I must say, this shocked me (though why it should, I cannot imagine - I thought nothing would shock me any more). Anyway, here's an extract from the March 23, 2002 Washington Post article that I've just read that shocked me:
Well, I must say, this shocked me (though why it should, I cannot imagine - I thought nothing would shock me any more). Anyway, here's an extract from the March 23, 2002 Washington Post article that I've just read that shocked me:
Sorry, I have no questions or issues to debate - I am still stunned. Well, well, well...From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad
Violent Soviet-Era Textbooks Complicate Afghan Education Efforts
By Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 23, 2002; Page A01
In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5339-2002Mar22?language=printer