The ABCs of Jihad

The Washington Post reports on the problems related to retracting textbook lessons long in circulation in Afghanistan.

While the stated policy (ie. the constitution) is to keep religion and education separated, this is of course not applied to propoganda material. Textbooks which taught counting with tanks and bullets and were filled with Islamic tenets extolling the glory of holy war against the Soviet invaders, were specially made in the US at the University of Omaha. While the aid package is being used to get rid of these, the militarized books are being replaced by researched material from the same university that made them in the first place. The article fails to point out this irony.

Apparently, these revised editions will teach how to be a good Muslim — and more than likely they will skip fomenting action against invaders.