NOTE: This is the latest in a series of secret reports sent to me by a friend in Afghanistan. I am withholding his identity for his safety.
Dear David:
In our last conversation, “Taliban Want New Suicide Bombers,” I told you how Taliban officials have started pushing textbooks in our schools that encourage our youth to pursue jihad against the West and become suicide bombers. Now, two published reports confirm my fears.
Whenever the government of Afghanistan changes, the education system changes accordingly. Every government manipulates the education system and changes the curriculums in favor of its ideology. In Afghanistan, the schools have always been used as a tool to influence citizens. Therefore, there is nothing new about what the Taliban is doing with textbooks; it just is really dangerous and people in the West should know what is coming.
As the Hasht-e-Subh newspaper reports, "the changes that the Taliban have in the reform of the educational curriculum are associated with the complete removal of history, culture, religious and ethnic identity, civility, democracy, justice, and science from the educational curriculum. On the other hand, the curriculum that this group is going to introduce is strongly focused on the extreme readings and narratives of this group of Islam and encouraging jihad, suicide, and military campaigns under the name of defending Islam and spreading the Taliban ideology.”
It continues: “With the implementation of this quorum, in the next few years, the Taliban will give millions of young people to society, who will commit suicide as soldiers of this terrorist group to consolidate the foundations of their power and spread Taliban Islam. Also, with this educational curriculum, the Taliban will turn Afghanistan into a market for the supply of young suicide bombers in the next few years to serve other terrorist groups, including the Al-Qaeda network, and some countries to advance their proxy wars."
The Taliban also have deleted three subjects from the curriculum – Painting Art, Culture, and Civics. They consider them unnecessary subjects, and also as propagators of western culture. In their reform, the Taliban emphasized removing all pictures of little girls, of men wearing official clothes like suits, or statues illustrating human anatomy in biology textbooks.
As The Diplomat, a current affairs magazine has reported, under the new curriculum "prohibited will be any mention of democracy and human rights in a positive light; the encouragement of peace, women’s rights, and education; the United Nations (an “evil organization” according to the report); mention of music, television, parties, and celebrations including birthdays; non-Muslim figures such as scientists or inventors (Thomas Edison is highlighted as an example); mention of mines and their dangers (because of their association to the Taliban); radio (“colonial media”); population management; and mention of elections."
Rather the Taliban intend to plant the seeds of hatred against western countries. This, therefore, is a very dangerous time in Afghanistan.
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