Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs, and they will all go to burn in hellfire; this, along with other hate-filled nonsense, is what is included in material produced by the Saudi Ministry of Education for use in Muslim schools in Britain. I've just stumbled across this excerpt from a BBC Newsnight broadcast that refers to a case involving the King Fahad Academy, an institute responsible for the education of six-hundred children and which recieves four-million pounds a year from the Saudi royal family. I'm not a fan of the BBC's news output, but kudos to Jeremy Paxman and the Newsnight team for this one. I'm particularly impressed by the way Paxman refuses to let the Saudi woman teacher off the hook when she starts quibbling about the Arab translations, blathers on in the familiar way about context or "interpretations", and then refuses to give clear and straight answers about the offensive material. Astonishingly, the Saudi woman teacher then reveals that she still thinks the books in questions have their uses within the school, notwithstanding the hate material they contain.
It is relevant to point out that the Koran itself refers to Jews and Christians as monkeys and pigs, and frequently exhorts violence gainst them; but don't expect an open and honest discussion about this by the mainstream media any time soon. As the philosopher Roger Scruton has said, "In the presence of Islam, we all feel, you have tread carefully, as though humoring a dangerous animal" (see the original article by Roger Scruton containing this quote here).
If you can stomach it, take at look at this Youtube film where a wacky Syrian Islamic scholar uses the Koran to suggest that Jews are the offspring of pigs and apes; absolute hate-filled insanity, and the Middle East is awash with it.
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