Perhaps Chas Freeman should subscribe to MEMRI.org?

A textbook for 8th grade students explains why Jews and Christians were cursed by Allah and turned into apes and pigs.Quoting Surat Al-Maida, Verse 60, the lesson explains that Jews and Christians have sinned by accepting polytheism and therefore incurred Allah’s wrath.To punish them, Allah has turned them into apes and pigs.[25]

A schoolbook for 5th grade instructs the students: “The religions which people follow on this earth are many, but the only true religion is the religion of Islam.As for the other religions, they are false as mentioned in the Koran (the Sura of Aal ‘Umran Verse 85): ‘And whoever follows a religion that is not Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the Hereafter he will be of the losers.”The religion of Islam we know from the Koran and the Hadiths about the Prophet. The whole world should convert to Islam and leave its false religions lest their fate will be hell. As mentioned in the Koran (the Sura of Al-Nihal Verse 125): ‘[I swear] by Him who holds Muhammad’s soul in his hand that not one Jew or Christian who had heard me and did not believe in the message that I was sent with shall die without being one of those whose fate is hell.’”

The students are then asked to mark “yes” or “no” to the following questions:

*”The Islamic religion is the road to heaven…”

*”Other religions bestow eternal damnation on their adherent…”[26]

“There is a Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill Him!”

A schoolbook for the 9th grade on Hadith introduces a famous narration known by the name, “The Promise of the Stone and the Tree.”It tells a story about Abu Hurayra, one of the Prophet’s companions who quoted the Prophet as saying: “The hour [the Day of Judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.A Jew will [then] hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will call upon the Muslim: ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allah! there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’ – except for the gharqad tree, for it is one of the trees of the Jews.”[27] The Hadith is accompanied by a number of statements:

1. “It is Allah’s wisdom that the struggle between Muslims and Jews shall continue until the Day of Judgment.”

2. “The Hadithbrings forth the glad tidings about the ultimate victory, with Allah’s help, of Muslims over Jews.”

3. “The Jews and the Christians are the enemies of the believers.They will not be favorably disposed toward Muslims and it is necessary to be cautious [in dealing with them] .”

The book asks questions for class discussion:

1. “Who will be victorious in the Day of Judgment?”

2. “With what types of weapons should Muslims arm themselves against the Jews?”

3. “Name four factors leading to the victory of Muslims over their enemies.”[28]

In a textbook for 5th grade on the “History of the Islamic State” the students are told that the Prophet Muhammad had concluded an agreement with the Jewish tribes in Medina so that they would not commit treacheries against Muslims. “The Jews (then) broke their promise because they were known for treachery, and the Prophet had expelled them from Medina to their relatives in Khaibar where they started plotting (again).”It is then that the Prophet had decided to invade them, destroy their fortifications and bring them under submission.[29]

A subject of discussion in the classroom is the case of Abdullah bin Saba, a “hypocrite Jew” who converted to Islam fraudulently and caused sedition among Muslims which resulted in the martyrdom of the third Khalifa, Othman ibn ‘Affan.[30]