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Unlike Saudi Arabia, who continues to reform its books in the midst of the Abraham Accords, Qatar is not meaningfully changing lessons that continue to: get anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-polytheistic, destroy Jewish relationships and statements to Israel, and honor jihad. According to a new record of 55 Qatari texts from 2023-2024, vital factors include:
Anti-Semitic links. Teaching students to avoid “resembling Jews,” making claims that Jews “have been invited to Islam and rejected it,” that Jews” …invent lies about Allah when they were invited to Islam,” making vague references to” Hitler’s racist ideas,” and not mention the Holocaust and Nazi anti-Semitism when teaching about World War II.
More prejudice towards non-Muslims. Lines include:” Allah exposed the heretics to the Hellfire”, Christianity and Judaism “have been corrupted” while being infused with paganism, paganism is “ignorance” and “false”, paganism is” the greatest sin”, and paganism “wrongs the soul”.
Defying Israeli claims and ties to Israel. The Arabs “have the best claim” to Palestine, according to the Bible, mention of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as sites in Jerusalem, and that the Western Wall and other Jewish sites were” Arabs” and” an Arab tribe” who “originated in the Arabian peninsula” were” Arabs” and” an Arab tribe” who “found themselves in the Arabian peninsula.”
Additional passages include: teaching students to” not conced ]e ] on any part of Palestine, for it is an Arab, Islamic land”, opposing “normalization]and its various forms” of relations with Israel, opposing Israel’s efforts to” Judaize” the land, claiming that Israel is deliberately trying to expel Palestinians from the land and obliterate]its ] Arab and Islamic identity”, claiming that Israel is an” occupation,”” Zionist state “and” Israeli entity”, claiming that Israelis are” the oppressors “and” the butchers”, showing Israel on maps as” Palestine “or” Occupied Palestine”, referring to Hamas leaders as” leaders of the Palestinian national action”, and claiming that the 1929 Arab riots in the British mandate of Palestine were targeting” Zionist gangs” ]when both Zionist and non-Zionist Jews were indiscriminately targeted].
Reward for Jihad. Parmi the passages that are praised are those of traditional Muslim figures like Nusaybah bint Ka’bin and Ali al Abu Talib, who taught that Allah loves jihad warriors and taught that she raised her children to “love jihad.”
By not being in the Abraham Accords, Qatar has been able to continue to spread anger, while Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco have made major changes. If Qatar does n’t actually implement real reforms in its hateful education, the Biden administration should press the country to expel Hamas from its soil and to halt its activities there.
