posted on September 29, 2004 07:55:36 AM new Instead of teaching the alphabet, the goal in Beytool's class is to memorize 28 basic verses from the Koran, and learn how to wash before prayers. The school's director says: "the most important thing for a child to know is religion."
Oh, Boy!...No battles over the separation of church and state in Iraq...Maybe the fundamentalist neocons should pack up and move to Iraq.
posted on September 29, 2004 08:02:12 AM new
Freedom has many faces....and choices people are allowed to make for themselves, rather than have their government tell them what they can and cannot do. This is but one of them.
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"To revitalize the education system, the U.S. has spent $225 million to renovate 2,400 of Iraq's 18,000 schools, print nine million new textbooks and retrain one in 10 teachers."
But many here won't believe the above statement from your article....as there are no pictures that they can see. So IF there are no pictures....then it's really not taking place.
posted on September 29, 2004 11:44:42 AM new
So you libs want the Iraq's to have their freedom, but only on your terms? Hypocrites. Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
So IF there are no pictures....then it's really not taking place.