Germany Adds Lessons in Islam to Better Blend Its Melting Pot, by Marquel, TPVs Times correspondent

Germany is working on its melting pot legacy. In Berlin all second graders, between 10 and 11 a.m., are led to the chant, “Kill the Big Satan.” It’s all part of a six part curriculum designed to acclimate German children to Islam, a growing demographic in the country.

The second part is devoted to Islamic culinary rules. Nobody is allowed to eat pork. This is a country where pork rules. For many children it constitutes a fast for whom a quick ambulance to the hospital substitutes for a school bus home.

The third part is devoted to customs and dress. All the little seven year old German girls dress in full-length birkhas, their little Nordic blue eyes seemingly crying, ” I’m trapped, I’m trapped!” At the end of the week several little girls end up bused to the wrong households because of difficulties identifying them by just their blue eyeballs. The boys have it easier that week. They are only required to wear dusty sandals or slippers.

The fourth part is devoted to religion, a difficult topic in growingly secular Germany. But it seems to go quietly until the class erupts into uncontrolled laughter when told that Mohammed is believed to travel through the sky seated backwards on a donkey.

The fifth and sixth parts involve Middle East politics and relations And a certain inconsistency. First the children are told there was no Holocaust, But that it would be a good thing if there had. One child had to be shushed when he yelled,

“Gramps was innocent! Gramps was innocent!”

But discussion leads from there to the Middle East. The children once again are led in a chant,

“Death to the Jews! Death to the Jews!”

But when told the Jews fled Europe to then expel the Palestinians from their own homeland, several little German second graders asked, “if there were no Holocaust, what were they fleeing?”

The same little boy said, “Not Gramps!”

And the Yemeni designer of the progressive syllabus, Ibn Ben Ibn, admitted,

“There are a few kinks in the program we will probably have to work out. We don’t get questions at home, and weren’t expecting any here.”

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