...Panorama said the [Muslim]centers fell under the umbrella of the Saudi Students' Schools and Clubs in the UK and Ireland and have been teaching the Saudi national curriculum to about 5,000 children.The program is divided into 2 videos below.
It said the schools, which teach children between the ages of 6 and 18, have been using textbooks that contain diagrams showing the Sharia way to cut off the hands and feet of people convicted of theft and that Zionists are plotting to take over the world for Jews.
It said it had obtained a textbook that asked children to list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jews. It also said they were told the punishment for sodomy was death and that there is a difference of opinion on whether this should be by stoning, burning or throwing off a cliff.
The Saudi Students' Schools and Clubs group could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Saudi Embassy said it would not comment on the Panorama program until it had seen it, but the BBC said it had received a letter from the Saudi ambassador saying the network of weekend schools had nothing to do with the embassy.
Quilliam, a think-tank that studies radical Islamism, said Saudi Arabia had stopped using the textbooks that Panorama referred to as it took steps to modernize its religious education and that the Saudi government should try to persuade Islamic schools in Britain to stop "hate preaching."
"It is unfortunate that these so-called Saudi schools in Britain do not seem to have similarly moved with the times. The Saudi authorities need to use their influence to ensure that hate-preaching is fully tackled both at home and abroad," Quilliam spokesman Talal Rajab said.
The second video is set to begin at 5:32, with the segment about the Saudi-sponsored schools mentioned above.
Part I
Part II
This is the same Saudi Arabia that sponsored an Interfaith Conference in Madrid in 2008--an idea that did not go well, and as far as I know has not been repeated since..
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This is the same Saudi Arabia that sponsored an Interfaith Conference in Madrid in 2008--an idea that did not go well, and as far as I know has not been repeated since..
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