In our system of education, showing
admiration for non–Muslims’ achievements is a great sin and indulging in
such praise deserves severe punishment. Our teachers always talk of
jihad and its rewards for those who participate in it. We are exhorted
to admire the jihadists and emulate them. We are urged to
participate in jihad, at least once in our lifetime. Here is a
hadis, often used to call Muslims to partake in jihad :
Narrated Abu Hurayra: Allah’s messenger
(peace be upon him) said, “If anyone meets Allah with no mark of jihad, he
will meet Allah with a flaw in him”. (Tirmidhi No1068).
In our society, the
good students are always the religious students. They command all the
respects from the headmaster and the ordinary teachers. They cut their
hair in zero. They dress in short ‘Thoub’ and usually work as religious
police in the school in which they had studied. As a reward, they receive
many facilities and respect. This is the reason why many students become
religious—they just covet this sumptuous respect and rich amenities
showered unabashedly by the people and the government. To sum up; the
religious people in Saudi Arabia receive special respect from the
government and the public. They are, in all respect the caretakers of
Allah, to tell it plainly.
In our schools, it is
quite normal for a mathematics teacher to speak about jihad, and
for that matter, a science teacher to speak about the latest discovery by
the infidel west which was invariably discovered by early Islam, long
before the Kafirs discovered! Our sports teachers talk about the
haram and halal attires in Islamic sports. For example: shorts
and jerseys which bear any symbols are out. I clearly remember that one
day, during a football match between the students and the teachers; one of
the teachers was wearing a short pant. On observing such an odious act,
our headmaster ordered him to change his despicable infidel’s dress,
failing which he would have to be out—he was warned. The headmaster’s
argument was that the teacher had set a bad example to his students. The
harassed teacher concerned steadfastly refused to comply with the
headmaster’s order. So, he was dismissed from the school. A religious
teacher sporting long Islamic beard and wearing a lengthy, baggy trouser
replaced him.
I vividly remember
our callous history teacher told us that when the Muslims defeated the
Christians in the battle of the Toors in 732 AD, it was proclaimed that
Azan would be heard in all of Europe. I would like to remind this
dim–witted teacher that Azan is already being heard all around Europe.
Today, this (Azan) is more ubiquitous in the USA, Canada, UK and many
other infidel lands. This has been achieved even without fighting a single
battle. I would like to call this as the fruit of the stupid system of the
west—the system of democracy. Jihadi Islam is poised to topple the
western civilization by using their (infidels’) own weapon—it is
Democracy. My view is that if left unchecked, the Islamists will topple
the western governments by using the method of democracy. These Islamists
need not fight any bloody battle—democracy and the system of freedom of
expression are the two best arsenals the Islamist will take advantage of.
The Kafirs have unhesitatingly handed over these powerful weapons
to Islam!
Therefore, we note
that everyone in our school, notwithstanding the religious teachers speaks
about religion (Islam, of course). Our entire life is surrounded with
religion. Everywhere we go there is nothing but omnipresent, omnipotent
religion—even our English class is about religion—about Makkah, Medina and
their history. In each term we used to study six religious subjects. They
were: the Qur’an, ahadith, tafsir (Qur’an exegesis),
tajowed, tawheed and fakih. In addition to those subjects we
had to attend the lectures in the morning, after breakfast intermission
and after the Zohr prayer. Students who desired to be hafizs
(Qur’an memorizers) had to attend the mosque in the evening for Hafiz
Qur’an ‘preserve’.
Was there any
provision for music lesson in our school? Forget about music as a subject
in any Islamic schools. In Islam, music is ‘Satan’s sound’.
During those days of
my school life our best topic of discussion was the mujahidins who
had just returned from fighting in Afghanistan. During our breakfast
break, we would keenly absorb their stories of how the angels had fought
with them and how one mujahed could kill so many Russians by simply
saying Allah Akbir la elah elah Allah. We would hear about the
wounded mujaheds and how they had recovered very fast. We would
also listen to the claim of excellent smell which emanated from the
martyr’s dead bodies. All those gripping, spell–binding, incredible and
miracle stories about the mujahedins in Afghanistan would make many
of us jealous about them. Many of us could not wait to go forward and join
in the jihad, wherever it might be fought. Such was the intense
motivation to participate in the Holy War—to kill and get killed.
It is now quite
simple to understand that the unbound fear, unremitting hate (for the
non–Muslims) and an undying penchant to be a martyr made many Saudis to
think that why should they not participate in the fight against the
infidels. Look at the number of Saudis killed in Afghanistan, Chechnya,
Iraq and other places around the globe. These diehard Islamists consider
education as a waste of time. Their preferred method to go straight to
Paradise is death in Allah’s path.
Having been highly
motivated to forsake the meaningless temporal lives in the way of Allah,
many of us sought the opinions of our flippant religious teachers. The
answer from them differed. Some of them said we must make proper
preparations before setting out for fighting (we were not ready, according
to them). Some teachers opined that we must seek permission from the
muffitee), the religious expert. And when the muffitee permits
us we must embark on the war path to kill the infidels. They told us there
was no need to carry guns or any other weapons, because, according to
them, we will be the winner—come what may. If we are killed then we are
headed straight to Paradise, and if we win then this is the victory of
Islam. Both ways, we are the victorious. There is no way Muslims could
lose a war—we were convinced by our teachers.
I remember how we
were tortured in school with prayers— above the required prayers. I wrote
before that we had to offer the zohir prayer before the school
hours ended for the day. But this was not the last ritual we were forced
to perform. In addition to the hateful zohir prayer, we were
required to offer the distasteful Sunni prayer every day. This was
done, under compulsion by our teachers, as a demonstration of our extra
love and devotion for Muhammad, our Prophet and for his companions.
All those school
activities made us to live in the distant past—during Muhammad’s time.
When I reminisce those fearful school days, I really think we were on a
time–travel, retrogress, of course. We were living in the seventh century,
not in the current period. Even our teachers used to tell us that the
modern time is Taleban and nothing else. Time did not exist except
for the Taleban time, which was nothing but the re–emergence of
Muhammad’s period, the Islamic Period. This is nothing but the incredible
Islamic Time Machine, we must admit.
All those incidents I
described above dates to my school days. With the end of Afghan war and
with the departure of the infidels (the Russians) from the Islamic land of
Afghanistan, I was expecting the passionate fervor for jhad and
martyrdom to die. After 9/11, and after all the troubles that took place
in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of this horrible event, I was under the
impression that Islamist will lie low, at least for a time. But I am
totally wrong.
It
is sad to say that nothing has really changed, so far as the Islamic zeal
is concerned. My younger brother who attends the same school as I did
decades ago informed me that many of my classmates have become teachers in
the school, propagating with unbound fervor whatever they had learned
during their school days. In a true sense, these teachers of religious
schools have turned into Islamist terrorists, so much so, that even the
government is scared of these teachers. This is definitely a victory for
them (the Islamist terrorists). They got what they wanted. They are now
fully satisfied that they have no serious threat from any source. They
(these Wahabi terrorists) are now so bold and powerful that they
openly declare their intention to control the education system. Recently
they got what they wanted. The new minister of education is from Qasem
(land of Wahabi). See the attached photo of the new education
minister.
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