For those who claim that the Moslems are just "average people" who really, really, really want to modernize, tolerate, and assimilate, feel free to explain this latest example of 12th century barbarism. Perhaps you could contrast and compare to the other wonderful nations within the Ummah.
If the average people who have higher aspirations are just intimidated or executed for failure to engage in jihad, what importance does their opinion have? The Moslem problem can be solved peacefully only by the Moslems themselves. I'm still waiting for the founding and operations of "The All-Moslem, International Cross-Border, Quick-Reaction, Special Forces, Anti-Terrorist Regiment", to start taking on those "radical non-Moslem terrorist who are giving Islam a bad name". I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually, won't they? Well, won't they? --- Randy *********************************************************** -----Original Message----- >From: Beowulf <[email protected] <Beowulf%40thedurendal.com>> >Sent: Mar 8, 2010 7:41 AM >To: [email protected] <grendelreport%40yahoogroups.com>, [email protected] <osint%40yahoogroups.com>, [email protected] <discuss-osint%40yahoogroups.com>, Beowulf < [email protected] <post%40grendelreport.posterous.com>>, Beowulf <[email protected] <Beowulf%40thedurendal.com>>, [email protected]<Individual-Sovereignty%40yahoogroups.com>, Intelligence History <[email protected]<Intel-Hist%40yahoogroups.com> > >Subject: [I-S] Dark Age Muslims Ban English, Science Lessons in Somalia > >http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6231DM.htm > > > >Somali Islamist rebels ban English, science lessons > >05 Mar 2010 09:31:55 GMT > >Source: Reuters > >* Rebels say English is language used by spies > >* Schools had refused to provide students as fighters > >* Education faces uncertain future > >By Sahra Abdi > >NAIROBI, March 5 (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamists have banned >English and science studies in schools in the southern Afmadow town after >the education centres there ignored the rebels' call for fighters, residents >and teachers say. > >Residents of the town near the border with Kenya said three schools had been >given one month to comply with the order by al Shabaab rebels and switch the >curriculum to accommodate Arabic and Islamic studies. > >"They asked us to contribute students to their militia so that they can >fight for them, but we rejected their proposal," said one teacher who wanted >to remain anonymous. > >Al Shabaab, which Washington says is al Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of >Africa state, wants to topple Somalia's U.N.-backed government and impose >its own strict version of sharia, Islamic law. > >The heavily armed group controls much of the south and parts of the capital >Mogadishu, and courts run by its clerics have ordered executions, floggings >and amputations. > >It has also banned movies, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or >watching soccer in the areas under its control. > >Elders said the al Shabaab militia shut down Waamo, Dhoobaale and Osman >Mohamud schools briefly on Sunday, before slapping the ban on English, which >they called a "spy language". > >"The Islamic administration closed education centres and ordered them to >stop teaching English which they said is a western language," Ali Mowlid >Mohamud, clan elder in Afmadow, told Reuters by phone. > >"They told schools, 'We know everyone who is going to be a spy for western >governments learns this language.'" > >Schools reopened on Tuesday after elders and schools accepted al Shabaab's >decree. > >The order also forced 23 instructors that did not have an Arabic education >background, out of their jobs. > >Safiya Ali, a mother at one of the affected schools, said she sent her >children to the Koranic schools earlier in their life so they would later >pursue some western education to enable them to join higher education >institutions elsewhere. > >"We had already taught our children Islamic principles and religion. 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