Dumbing Down Terrorism

Right Truth reports on a great piece in the Washington Times about the dumbing down of our school kids. This hits two very important topics: the lack of proper education in America, and the lack of understanding of the threat of terrorism. Take a look [emphasis mine]:

Albert Einstein observed, "The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein was making two observations: Evil people exist in the world and such evil will prevail lest good people take action to eliminate it. This was an appropriate observation by one who bore witness to the dangerous world that evolved prior to World War II as good people did nothing. Turning a blind eye to the evil of Nazism, they naively clung to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's promise of "peace in our time."

What conditions give rise to such a dangerous world where good people do nothing? One of two factors prevail: Either they are conscious of the threat, fearing to take action against it, or are unconscious of it, thus lacking motivation to act in their own interests of survival.

Consciousness of a threat is a factor of education. Unfortunately, some of our school systems, promoting a "peace in our time" mindset, reject educating the most innocent of innocents — our young children — that there is evil in the world that poses a real danger to those oblivious to it. The result is a "dumbing-down" of students about a threat to their future existence.

For example, World Net Daily reported seventh-grade students in a third of California schools are taught in a social studies book published by Teachers' Curriculum Institute that "jihad" is, at best, an effort by Muslims "to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research" and, at worst, simply Muslims fighting "to protect themselves from those who would do them harm."

Basically ignoring the teachings of Christianity and Judaism, the book teaches Islamic religious doctrine. The history it shares about Christianity is that Crusaders tortured Jews in seeking to convert them to Christianity; yet the history it fails to share is that Arab Muslims have and continue to persecute Jews today. School officials in Scottsdale, Ariz., ultimately rejected the text as students "were subject to... prolonged indoctrination," inducing them "to embrace Islam."

The book leaves impressionable young students with the belief that Muslim fables and superstitions are historical accounts. But nowhere in the text is an effort made to educate students about the threat posed by a dangerous interpretation of Islam practiced by extremists such as Osama bin Laden — whose interpretation of "jihad" is much more violent than anything the book suggests.

While California schools fail to teach their young students about the dangers of Islamofascism, Islamofascist educators in Iran teach their young how to hate their American counterparts. Video cartoons are shown to very young children glorifying suicide bombers and encouraging them to kill infidels (non-Muslims). The educational system there is used not to promote creative thinking but to indoctrinate a generation of Nazi-like theocrats committed to doing what their leaders dictate.

This is a fantastic synthesis of two of the major problems we have to deal with in America today. First is the appalling education system which ignores actual history in favor of the politically correct embracing of those who would wipe us off the face of the planet. [Please understand I don't believe the entire educational system reflects this; in fact, I think this mindset rests primarily at the administration level, the NEA, and the university 'elite' rather than with normal teachers themselves; unfortunately, these 'elites' are the ones who dictate the strategic direction of most schools] Second is the plain reality that I've blogged about before - while we in the West preach tolerance for our enemies, our enemies are brainwashing their young into hatred and violence and the ultimate goal of our eradication.

When will we realize this fundamental mistake? I hope it will be before it's too late to correct our errant direction. I don't much like the thought of Islam running our country when me or my children or grandchildren are still alive.

There's my two cents.