I remembered the Kuwaiti proverb, “We satiated them with insults ... They satiated us with jokes”! It means that we cursed our enemies, but they beat us up! I remembered this while reading passages from one of the textbooks, which are taught in our schools, and which clearly show that whoever sets educational curricula is either completely detached from reality, or that he lives in a virgin world steeped in aspirations that are difficult to achieve.

From reading three or four pages of a textbook, we find that the greatest concern of the nation, which the educators, who wrote the books, would like to focus on is the enmity of the Jews and their elimination, and this is indeed confusing, as the number of Arabs is 400 million, and above them is a billion Muslims.

Is it conceivable that with this “mental” humility there is a desire to eliminate a country of 6 or 7 million?

There is no doubt that there is a defect in the matter, and if the Ministry of Education allowed school students to be taught the subject of “critical thinking”, then the students themselves would have shown the absurdity of the equation and the absurdity of the text.

The issue is not a sword and horses, but rather knowledge, understanding and achievement. Not all of our nation can eliminate Israel with our current reality that is weak, disjointed, and backward in health, socially, morally, industrially, and financially. They continue to defeat us in every military or moral battle!

Our children are taught, based on school texts, how to confront the conspiracies of the Jews, and we forget that we conspire against each other more than they conspire against us, because our involvement in our differences represents the greatest support for them and their continued survival, especially since the curricula are completely devoid of materials related to how to eliminate our differences, and accept each other, stop our dispersion and fragmentation, and reject the distinction between free and slave, indigenous and faction, Muslim and Christian, Shiite and Sunni, Druze and Alawite, Coptic and Amazigh, Kurdish and Ibadhi. Without liberalism and freedoms we will not exist!

The curricula also focus on the fact that the enmity of the “Jews” towards Islam and Muslims is deep-rooted and ancient!

Of course, this is not true, and if it is true, I do not think for a moment that they are as preoccupied as we are with this enmity, thinking about it and teaching it in their curricula.

Our curricula also focus on the “story” that the Jews are covenant-breakers, and this automatically means that we are among those who keep them. It is another lie that is difficult to deceive from the half-smart male and female students.

As mentioned in the curricula, one of the greatest duties that Muslims have is the responsibility to defend Islam, by adhering to its rulings, and boycotting the products of the enemies.

Conclusion: We are the enemies of ourselves before others are our enemy, and the battles of Sudan are the last of our misfortunes.

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By Ahmad alsarraf