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| 2005-10-02 |
| History or biology, Pakistani students get anti-India lessons in all their textbooks When Mohammad Qasim stepped out to participate in the declamation contest held to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day, the topic he was to speak on was: 'Why Islam and Pakistan are integral to each other'. Instead, this Class XI student of Lahore's Government Central Model School lashed out against the Hindus, giving vent to inexplicable anger and hatred. This was particularly shocking because the Hindu community, constituting an infinitesimal percentage of Pakistan's population, hasn't been an aspect of Qasim's life. Asked to explain his outpouring in the contest, the 14-year-old boy said, "We hate Hindus because they are Hindustanis and the number one enemies of both Islam and Pakistan. |
| Posted by:john |
| #5 The whole of Pakistan is crazy No, it's a jihadist state. What can you expect from a country borne out of the religious bigotry, whose very name means "land of the pure"? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-02 16:30 |
| #4 Jihad taught in Biology books and the former ISI chief running the education system. And this is the NON madrassa system - official government schools. The whole of Pakistan is crazy "The extracts (see box) culled out from textbooks taught in government schools demonstrates how the ruling establishment, under the aegis of President Pervez Musharraf, is misusing books to develop an anti-India, anti-Hindu mindset—and also fan sentiments against Christians, Jews and the West. The regime's control over the education system is exercised through Lt Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, who heads the federal education ministry. Head of the ISI between 1993 and 1995, Qazi supervised the recruitment of students from Pakistan's madrassas for constituting the extremist Taliban militia." " The education ministry never bothered to inquire—as most people familiar with the discipline of biology logically would—why there were references to jehad in the biology textbook in the first place." |
| Posted by: john 2005-10-02 16:16 |
| #3 Add that India is a democracy, is a capitalist country of entrepreneurs, are smart, hard working, and has control of their country. Pakistan has none of that. They are another Moslem country run by a coalition of dictator and moslem clerics. A bad combination. |
| Posted by: Flavins Pholuger6383 2005-10-02 12:23 |
| #2 This kind of stuff has a habit of rebounding on you, look at the Nazis for example. India is growing at a pace, has aspirations of being a great regional power and is being wooed by the US. Pakistan, on the other hand is a basket-case with thousands of 'hate-school' madrassas and is only tolerated by the US because it is (in theory) helping to find Osama. If a war does break out between the two countries, you can be sure that the Indians will point to all this vile invective for justification of ...whatever they end up doing. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-10-02 10:59 |
| #1 Hinjooooooos #1! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-02 10:25 |