‘We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people’ - Barack Obama
Studies in Theology: Tradition and Morals, Grade 11, (2001) pp. 291-92 … This noble [Qur'anic] Surah [Surat Muhammad]… deals with questions of which the most important are as follows: ‘Encouraging the faithful to perform jihad in God’s cause, to behead the infidels, take them prisoner, break their power, and make their souls humble - all that in a style which contains the highest examples of urging to fight. You see that in His words: ‘When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Then grant them their freedom or take a ransom from them, until war shall lay down its burdens.’
Commentary on the Surahs of Muhammad, Al-Fath, Al-Hujurat and Qaf, Grade 11, (2002) p. 9 … When you meet them in order to fight [them], do not be seized by compassion [towards them] but strike the[ir] necks powerfully. … Striking the neck means fighting, because killing a person is often done by striking off his head. Thus, it has become an expression for killing even if the fighter strikes him elsewhere. This expression contains a harshness and emphasis that are not found in the word ‘kill,’ because it describes killing in the ugliest manner, i.e., cutting the neck and making the organ – the head of the body – fly off [the body].
Teaching Egyptian schoolchildren anti-infidel jihad hatred is clearly a long, ongoing, and ignoble tradition even within the modern era. As the scholar E.W. Lane reported after several years of residence in both Cairo and Luxor (initially in 1825-1828, then in 1833-1835).....
"I am credibly informed that children in Egypt are often taught at school, a regular set of curses to denounce upon the persons and property of Christians, Jews, and all other unbelievers in the religion of Mohammad."
The following is (part of) a typical curse on non-Muslims, recited DAILY by Muslim schoolchildren:
"....O God, destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion. O God, make their children orphans, and defile their abodes, and cause their feet to slip, and give them and their families, and their households and their women and their children and their relations by marriage and their brothers and their friends and their possessions and their race and their wealth and their lands as booty (reward) to the Muslims...."
The study of the jihad is part of the curriculum of all the Islamic institutes. In the universities of Al-Azhar, Najaf, and Zaitoune, students are still taught that the holy war is a binding prescriptive decree, pronounced against the Infidels, which will only be revoked with the end of the world[.] … The (Muslim) Prophet did in fact say … and his words have not expired: “I came with the sword[.] … Jihad is engaged now and to the day when the last handful of men of my nation will be called to fight the ‘Antichrist!”
The sacralized hatred inherent in jihad is still being inculcated as part of the formal education of Muslim youth in Egypt, the most populous Arab country, and throughout the Arab Muslim and larger non-Arab Muslim world.
