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| Siddeeq |
| 03/18/02 at 12:32:39 |
| [slm] My question is what will be in the books and who will be the teacher trainers/teachers? Will they bombard the people of Afghan with western education/propaganda and put little or no importance on Islamic education? >:( Please give me your opinion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1876000/1876663.stm The United States is sending 10 million school textbooks and some teacher trainers to Afghanistan. In his weekly radio address, President George W Bush said education was the pathway to progress for the next generation of Afghans, especially women. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Even as we fight terror, American compassion is providing an alternative to bitterness, resentment and hatred " George W Bush -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A BBC correspondent says there is a political message to go with the gift. Mr Bush said the textbooks would teach tolerance and respect for human rights, instead of indoctrinating students with what he called fanaticism and bigotry. He said that when Afghan children began their new school term next week, they would find that the US had already sent more than four million textbooks to their country. Path to progress "Before the end of the year we will have sent almost 10 million of them to the children of Afghanistan," he said. The textbooks are written in the Afghan languages of Pashto and Dari. "Education is the pathway to progress, particularly for women," said the president. "Educated women tend to be healthier than those who are not well-educated. And the same is true of their families." He added: "Babies born to educated women are more likely to be immunised, better nourished, and survive their first year of life. "Nations where women are educated are more competitive, more prosperous and more advanced than nations where the education of women is forbidden or ignored." Previous efforts The United States will also pay for 20 teams of teacher trainers to work with Afghan educators. Mr Bush said the US still had work to do in Afghanistan, where its forces are fighting alongside Afghan troops to drive out al-Qaeda militants. But he added: "Even as we fight terror, American compassion is providing an alternative to bitterness, resentment and hatred." Previous US aid to Afghanistan has not always been a success. During the air strikes against Taleban targets last October, US planes dropped hundreds of tonnes of food parcels into areas where local people faced starvation. But aid agencies asked them to stop because the bright yellow parcels were the same colour as unexploded cluster bomblets - and some Afghans had been maimed and killed picking them up. Some of the parcels also ended up in mine fields. It was also alleged that a lot of the food was falling into the hands of the Taleban. On a more positive note, in January the US pledged almost $300m to Afghanistan in the coming year, on top of $400m in humanitarian assistance committed by President Bush last autumn. |
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| nouha |
| 03/18/02 at 22:17:28 |
| [slm] the first thing i thought of while reading this was that wanted to be the one to go and teach those Afghan women instead of non muslim ones, but then realtiy hit me and i realized i cant go over there..... something that sounded MAD shady to me was why would america cover the food sent to afghanistan in yellow (same color as bombs) if they knew it was the same color...... makes u think...... lets make dua for those people in Afghanistan, [wlm] nouha:) |
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| Kathy |
| 03/19/02 at 10:16:16 |
| [slm] Yellow is a highly visable color. That is why the newer fire trucks and danger street signs are yellow. |
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