[ April 18, 2024 ]
Backwardness and anti-education policies do not surprise me in sharia states; it comes with the territory. Interesting how the left tore any Christian leader or “Creationist” apart for Darwin denial. Spencer Tracy and Fredric March were practically deified for their performances in Stanley Kramer’s “Inherit the Wind.”
The Scopes trial was a cause celebre for the left. The Christian philistines were beyond their contempt — depicted as violent rubes.
As for Islam? Well, that’s a whole other thing, isn’t it? The left reveres the savagery and ignorance, the violence and the subjugation.
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Photo: A 2016 photo shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan posing with students of a religious school in Istanbul. How sorry I feel for those little girls.
The article is from this past January, but the left’s hypocrisy should be exposed.
Turkish educational system: Darwin out, jihad in
Staunchly defying series of rulings by European Court of Human Rights, Justice and Development Party government insists on keeping religion courses compulsory in state schools.
Arab Weekly, January 2017
Some of the most alarming figures about crisis-stricken Turkey depict its dilapidated educational system.
An international Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report released in December placed Turkey second from bottom among 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in mathematics, science and reading scores for 2015. Turkey slipped an average of seven places in mathematics, science and reading compared to rankings in the 2012 PISA survey.
The report’s findings also highlight that, compared to other OECD countries, Turkish teachers have the longest working hours, the highest number of students per class and the lowest starting salaries.
“The Turkish education system is in a coma. This crisis is more serious than the European Union and dollar issues. The PISA 2015 results are clearly telling us, Turkey cannot understand even what it has read,” said Ceyhun Irgil, a deputy of the main-opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
Such cries have hardly been heard due to the political crisis over proposed changes to the constitution to give the president more power and the lack of a properly functioning media.
As if the drop in test scores were not enough, the government announced changes in the curriculum, which are seen as the clear Islamisation of content.
Religious studies textbooks describe terms such as “secularism”, “positivism”, “reincarnation”, “nihilism” and “atheism” under the heading “’problematic beliefs”, and as “maladies”. In religious secondary schools — so-called Imam Hatip schools — the concept of jihad has been added to the content in a new chapter titled Battle on the Path of Allah: Jihad. In those schools, severe limitations are imposed on music classes.
Staunchly defying a series of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government insists on keeping religion courses compulsory in state schools.
Dominated by the teaching of Sunni Muslim practices, the classes have caused outrage within the Alevi Muslim minority, as well as secular segments of society. The government insists that the religion books teach the “culture of religions” but these arguments are contradicted by the content of the pages.
There is more: Teaching the theory of evolution has been stopped in secondary schools. Tayfun Atay, an anthropologist whose work focuses on Anatolian Islam, fiercely criticised the changes in a series of articles in which he concluded that the “Turkish school system has been seized by Salafists”.
Names of the founding fathers of the republic have been revised radically in the new curriculum. Pupils will not be taught about Ismet Inonu, successor of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as president and his crucial role in keeping Turkey a neutral power until the end of the second world war. As his name was stricken from the pages, the mention of Ataturk was decreased to a minimum.
Turkish Minister of Education Nabi Avci and his staff downplayed the changes, saying that “it is a draft to be revisited after reactions”. Yet the mistrust of the government by secular Turks has deepened so much that it is taken for granted objections would be ignored.
Insensitivity and imposition are the pattern of the AKP, which remains under fire for not consulting stakeholders, including unions and parent-teacher associations.
Adding salt to the wound, state of emergency decrees following July’s coup attempt led to sacking or suspension of more than 30,000 teachers, many identified as secular, left-leaning or Kurdish. Their replacements have been systematically chosen based on partisanship rather than skills, Turkey’s Education and Science Workers’ Union claimed.
Under emergency rule, there is no denying that anti-secular and Sunni sectarians dominating the administrative echelons of Turkey are having a field day. Far worse is the fact that the educational system of Turkey was obsolete before the AKP came to power and the destruction taking place now makes it more irreparable for decades.
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13 Comments
6 years ago
“The Scopes trial was a cause celebre for the left. The Christian philistines were beyond their contempt — depicted as violent rubes.
“As for Islam? Well, that’s a whole other thing, isn’t it? The left reveres the savagery and ignorance, the violence and the subjugation.”
Well, not exactly.
What comes across is that the left reveres religion in the raw, that its opposition to Christianity and Judaism result not from their religious aspects, but the fact that they have accepted and are influenced by the values of the Age of Enlightenment.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jim Austin
Leftist atheists constantly apologize, sympathize and collaborate w/muslums — in the enemedia, in our Congress, in academia ad nauseum. Islum has nothing to do with the Age of Enlightenment, but Christians like Isaac Newton did.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jim Austin
In fact, the Age of Enlightenment was brought about by Christianity. In any event, their is scientific evidence for Intelligent Design.
6 years ago
Reply to
Frank not Gafney
The Age of Enlightenment was brought about by some Christians like Thomas Aquinas who persuaded his fellow Roman Catholics that Aristotelian logic was compatible with Christianity, and so persuaded, allowed the Greek classics to become available to the populace.
This allowed Western Europe go to from Medieval to Scholastic period to Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment. Such transformation brought about reduced Christian influence on science and politics.
Evidence for intelligent design consists of it is unknown how certain phenomena has occurred and therefore, it must be designed. The general form is: we don’t know, therefore . The intelligent design theory leaves out any notion of who designed the designer.
6 years ago
turkey has been given every possible opportunity to be a major influence and power for good and peace, as it bridges the geographical and social gap between east and west. turkey has failed every time it has tried to do anything, because it will not leave the primitive sub human cult of islam and join the modern world. The Arminian genocide should be acknowledged and appropriate remorse presented, just for starters.
6 years ago
It’s a religion/ideology unchanged in 1400 years, and its followers like IS, the Taliban and millions more want to drag the free, democratic 21st century world back to the Dark Ages under Islam. By definition, ALL Islamic countries are backward.
A perfect example is on the Indian sub-continent; when India and Pakistan became separate entities, they had much the same advantages and disadvantages, geographically, socially and economically. Look at them 70 years later: obviously there are still inequalities in India, but it is nevertheless a peaceful democracy, progressive, technologically advanced, women can make choices. But Pakistan? Much of it uncivilised wasteland with people behaving like savages, politically unstable, under-developed and a major threat to the region. What has held it back? ISLAM.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jeremy Steering
Islum would be nothing without the muslum zombies to actualize its evil, totalitarian, fascist, Jew hating ideology. It’s not the holey quranus that slaughtered 2.5 million Hindus in Bangladesh in the 1970’s and raped thousands of Hindu women — it was muslums.
6 years ago
Turkish “Darwinism” IS jihad. Survival of the fittest, kill off the infidel – natural selection – it is all there in Islamic “doctrine”.
Where is the Islamic big bang, and climate change? Stay tuned … the American Left has this in sight for your edification …
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Will Hollywood elites create a sequel to “Inherit the Wind” featuring hate-mongering Muslims?
Nope! Not in 2d nor 3d.
6 years ago
So according to Darwin man evolved from apes. Interesting. We have the apes on the planet and the end product — man, but where are the transitional forms? Where are the half ape/half man creatures? Maybe they were all killed off by white supremacists.
6 years ago
If any group understands human evolution,…. it has to be MUSLIMS ?!!!
6 years ago
Looks like a haram of child brides.
6 years ago
Does Erdie look like Hitler? It’s like the Boys of Brazil made flesh.
