>>>or die..
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>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8150247/Muslim-pupils-learn-to-cut-off-hands-of-thieves.html
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>>Yeah, this is just crazy : " One book for six year-olds warns that those who do not believe in Islam will be condemned to “hellfire” in death."
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>>Any kid who attending Catholic catechism classes in my neighborhood in the 50s knows, of course, that is it those who are not Catholics who are gonna burn !
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>>( they were pretty much in agreement on the Jews, though - along with the Czarist Okrana who forged the Protocols of the Elders of Zion )
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>>Reminded of Voltaire : " Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. "
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>>Suffer the little children to come unto me ... and I shall mess up their heads.
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>OTOH I had exactly the Catholic education. Taught by nuns church twice a week etc and my head is relatively ok. I wonder what the difference is between those who suck it all up and those who sit back and think about it is.

Part of the catechism was that thinking about it was sinful <g>.

I'm sure the madrasas are not just throwing haditha out there to stimulate a robust discussion and personal evaluation by the students. The whole point of belief systems is that one *believe*, not that one sits back and thinks about it.

But you are quite right, somebody messing with your head as a kid in no way guarantees that one is going to internalize the message - and in many cases has exactly the opposite effect. But it also depends on the diversity of the culture one is exposed to after (and during) the indoctrination period. A kid getting this training in London is going to have a different situation than the same kid getting the same training in rural Yemen ( or in the case I mention, growing up in Garfield Hts OH vs Carrickfergus. )