Education, Iranian Style

PREPPING FOR WAR AGAINST U.S.
AND WEST THROUGH. SCHOOL TEXTS

Iran is using its school textbooks to indoctrinate its children in a
global war against the "enemies of Islam," with a special focus on the
United States and the West, according to a comprehensive and alarming
report from the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace.

As you will see by reading the report or a summary, both available
online at http://www.edume.org/
tp%3a%2f%2fwww.edume.org%2f> , Iran is training 15 million children to
strive for "martyrdom" in attacks against the United States. In fact,
the declared goal of the school curriculum is to prepare students for an
armed struggle against the United States to put an end to "Western
dominion" and establish the reign of Islam.

"Now, in order to continue the Islamic Revolution," says a book for 7th
graders, "it is our duty to continue with all [our] power our revolt
against the Arrogant Ones [i.e., the United States], and the oppressors,
and not cease until all Islam's commandments and the spread of the
redeeming message of 'there is no god except Allah' are realized in the
whole world."

For 11th graders, the message is, "America is known as an Imperialist
country, which embarks on military intervention wherever it sees that
its interests are in danger. It does not refrain from massacring
people, burying alive the soldiers of the opposite side and using
weapons of mass destruction (as it did in Iraq). It makes use of atomic
bombs (the bombardment of Japan). It uses the weapons of human rights
in order to suppress the justice seekers (as it does in its abuses
against Islamic Iran). It creates the greatest dictatorships and the
most violent and torturing security-oriented regimes, and defends them."

The 11th graders are called to action: "O Muslims of all countries of
the world! Since under the foreigners' dominance gradual death has been
inflicted on you, you should overcome the fear of death and make use of
the existence of the passionate and the martyrdom-seeking youths, who
are ready to smash the borders of unbelief. Do not think of keeping the
status quo."