One day a year Schools are required to teach Constitution Day and
Citizenship Day (Constitution Day). This day commemorates the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States
Constitution. Each educational institution that receives Federal funds for a
fiscal year is required to hold an educational program about the
U.S. Constitution for its students. However they are training teachers to teach about Islam, train the teachers to teach American History. Education is dumbing down America's future.
On January 27, Qatar Foundation International (QFI) sponsored a continuing-education event titled “Middle
East 101” for public-school teachers in Phoenix, Ariz. It was hosted by the
Arizona Department of Education — which is not surprising, given that QFI has
donated over $450,000 to Arizona public schools (and over
$30 million to public schools across the country). Unfortunately, while there was a
good deal of interesting material, teachers also got a large helping of
Islamist propaganda, designed to influence American schoolchildren and
ultimately to advance Qatari foreign policy.
QFI program officer Craig Cangemi introduced QFI as an American
member organization of the Qatar Foundation (QF), which he blandly described as
“a private, education-focused foundation in Doha, Qatar.” In fact, QF is a
massive apparatus directly managed by Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani
family, which conducts a tremendous
range of state-development activities ranging from technology
research to higher education. This includes “Education City,” a district in
Doha that hosts Qatari branches of American universities, including Texas A&M,
Northwestern, Georgetown, and others, which QF funds to the tune of more than
$400 million annually. Georgetown alone received nearly $300 million in grants
from QF between 2011 and 2016.
However, while the American universities are able to preserve
some freedom of thought, other QF-backed schools in Doha enforce a rigid
ideological program. QF schools and mosques often host the most virulently radical Islamist preachers, including
one who referred to the 9/11 attacks as a “comedy film,” another who said that
Jews bake Passover matzoh with human blood (“believing that this brings them
close to their false god”), and a third who accused the Shia of “poisoning” and
“sorcery.”
A featured lecturer of the QF-backed Qatar Faculty
of Islamic Studies was Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, currently a professor at the QF’s flagship Hamad bin Khalifa
University. El-Shinqiti was once an imam at a West Texas mosque, where he openly encouraged young people to engage in terror
attacks against Israel and Egypt. The dean of the QF’s College of Islamic
Studies (CIS) is Emad al-Din Shahin, a member of the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood whose prominence led Egypt’s military regime to sentence him to death in absentia. Other CIS
faculty are connected to the International Institute for Islamic Thought
(IIIT), the Muslim Brotherhood’s American think tank that is the nexus of a terror-finance
network named the SAAR Network. These CIS faculty include Louay
Safi, former IIIT executive director and research
director, and Jasser Auda, also an IIIT lecturer. Other faculty seem closely aligned with the
IIIT’s long-term goal of the “Islamization of knowledge,”
including one professor working under Auda who has written
about “Revelation as a source of engineering sciences.”
An American educator who worked at a QF educational institution
in Doha told the Middle East Forum that faculty were not allowed to purchase
maps showing the state of Israel, the entire territory of which was instead
labeled “Palestine.” Even tangentially mentioning the existence of Israel or
the Holocaust in class would provoke severe reprisals from the Qatari Ministry
of Education. The official government policy was “Israel doesn’t exist.”
QF is a committed supporter of Islamist extremism, particularly
at its Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal — named in honor
of Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who
chaired the committee that established the Center’s faculty. (Al-Qaradawi has
repeatedly endorsed suicide bombings, terrorist attacks against the United
States, and the total extermination of the Jews. He is barred from entering the
U.S. because of terrorism concerns.) And in 2012, QF hosted Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (who was just
designated as a terrorist by the federal government) and gave him
a “victory shield” featuring the Dome of the Rock.
Meanwhile, during the “Middle East 101” event, Cangemi insisted
that QFI (the American branch of QF) sets its own policies, saying, “We are an
autonomous organization. . . . We do not have any ties with Qatar: the
government, the state, or really [the] Qatar Foundation.” This is patently
false. The CEO and nominal founder of QFI is Sheikha Hind
bint Hamad Al-Thani, the daughter of Qatar’s former emir. The chairman of the board of QFI is Sheikh Jassim bin
Abdulaziz Al-Thani, another member of the royal family. As of 2012 (the most
recent year for which public records are available), the treasurer of QFI was Khalid Al Kuwari, a senior Qatari government official
and a scion of the powerful Al-Kuwari clan. QFI is in fact a key instrument of Qatari state policy.
Evidence of this is found in the teaching materials that Cangemi
recommended to his school teacher audience. Al
Masdar, for instance, is QFI’s flagship curriculum project. It
offers lesson plans and resources about countries all over the Middle East.
Unsurprisingly, the most flattering collection is about Qatar. One resource
offered is even titled: “Express Your Loyalty to Qatar.” No lesson plan appears
particularly critical of Qatar, whereas other countries discussed in Al
Masdar’s resources are subject to much more varied discussion.
Other lesson plans contain anti-Semitic and anti-American
material, particularly several lessons produced by the Zinn Education Project,
which claims to promote a revisionist “people’s history.” These include “Greed as a Weapon: Teaching the Other Iraq War,”
which examines the “greed” of the corporations
ostensibly responsible for the Iraq war in order to “feast on Iraq’s economy,”
and “Whose ‘Terrorism’?”, which questions the definition of terrorism, creating scenarios for
students to discuss — for example, if “Israeli soldiers taunting and shooting
children in Palestinian refugee camps, with the assistance of U.S. military
aid” should be considered an example of terrorism.
Read it all…and read what your children bring home from
school.More importantly, ask them what they are discussing in school. Many
schools and teachers discuss topics without handouts and tell the kids not to
mention it at home.
Better yet, if you can, remove your children from public schools
often staffed with young, left-wing ideologues fresh from the socialist
breeding grounds called universities.
If you don’t think Muslims have a well-coordinated, well-funded
and multi-pronged strategy to take over
America, think again. Or just listen to their words. The educational system is
under attack.
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