----- Original Message ----- From: leonardo rimba To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:18 AM Subject: [RumahKita] Sekolah di Arab Saudi Mengajarkan Intoleransi
Friends, tulisan saya berikut merupakan komentar atas tulisan dari milis wanita-muslimah yang menyorot intoleransi beragama yang SENGAJA diajarkan di sekolah2 di Arab Saudi. Menurut pendapat saya, Arab Saudi itu merupakan negara yang membodohi masyarakatnya sendiri agar bisa didaya-gunakan untuk mengekalkan Dinasti Saud. Segala macam upaya PEMBODOHAN dilakukan disana, termasuk dengan pembungkusan anggota2 tubuh wanita, termasuk dengan menempatkan wanita sebagai makhluk yang harus dikontrol dengan ketat eksistensinya, termasuk dengan pemutar-balikan sejarah segala macam. Saya selalu bilang bahwa agama2 itu BUATAN manusia saja. Semua agama itu buatan manusia, dan tidak ada yang jatuh gedebuk dalam bentuk gelondongan dari langit, walaupun REJIM pemerintahan yang memiliki vested interest untuk mengekalkan pembodohan masyarakatnya sendiri akan TETAP bertahan bahwa Islam itu jatuh dalam bentuk gelondongan dari langit, dan bahwa Allah adanya di Surga, dan bahwa manusia di dunia WAJIB mengumpulkan Pahala melalui Amal Ibadah supaya bisa masuk Surga. Lalu diciptakanlah yang namanya Pendidikan di Arab Saudi sekarang ini yang sebenarnya BUKAN Pendidikan as far as religions are concerned. Tidak ada agama2 di Arab Saudi, yang ada hanya satu agama yang melakukan MONOPOLI atas interpretasi. Interpretasi segalanya dilakukan berdasarkan sudut pandang sempit agama itu sendiri. Nah, SEMUA agama2 itu melakukan interpretasi sejarah dan sebagainya berdasarkan sudut pandang sempit mereka sendiri. Arab Saudi hanya satu contoh ekstrim tentang PEMBODOHAN yang dilakukan oleh suatu pemerintah terhadap masyarakatnya sendiri. Tetapi, apakah hal itu bisa berlangsung terus ? Tentu saja tidak. Segala sesuatu itu akan dikaji terus, dibandingkan terus, dan apabila ternyata TIDAK SESUAI dengan realita, maka tentu saja akan di-revisi. Cepat atau lambat pasti akan di-revisi. Siapa bilang Rejim Saud di Arab Saudi akan bertahan sepanjang masa ? They are buying their time alias mengulur waktu datangnya pembaharuan di masyarakat mereka sendiri. Saudi Arabia adalah contoh masyarakat yang dibentuk untuk menjadi MESIN tanpa bisa berpikir sendiri, dan membandingkan sendiri. Membantah interpretasi yang diberikan oleh kaum agama adalah TABU. Kenapa tabu ? Karena kalau tidak di-tabukan maka segalanya akan terbuka. Bendungan itu akan jebol sendiri karena orang2 akan belajar bahwa segalanya itu ternyata buatan belaka, artifisial belaka. Indonesia MULAI mengerti dan menyadari bahwa agama2 itu buatan manusia belaka. Tetapi negara NON demokratik seperti Arab Saudi itu masih perlu waktu lebih lama lagi karena ada PEMBODOHAN yang berlangsung terus dan dijalankan oleh pemerintahnya sendiri demi pengekalan rejim. Demokrasi itu membuka pikiran manusia bahwa kita itu memiliki HAM (Hak Azasi Manusia, Basic Rights). Tetapi demokrasi sendiri BELUM ada di Arab Saudi. Namanya sendiri masih "Saudi" (milik Al Saud). Itu negara yang dikontrol oleh keturunan Al Saud, so pantas saja rakyatnya dibodohi terus demi pengekalan rejim. Memeluk Islam atau agama apapun, atau bahkan tidak memeluk agama apapun merupakan salah satu HAM. Memakai jilbab atau tidak memakai jilbab juga merupakan HAM. Mengemukakan pendapat apapun merupakan HAM. Tetapi hal2 yang sangat BASIC seperti itu tidak ada di Arab Saudi. Segalanya dikontrol demi pengekalan rejim. Apakah itu Islami ? Menurut saya, pertanyaannya bukanlah apakah itu Islami atau tidak, melainkan apakah hal2 seperti dipraktekkan di Arab Saudi itu manusiawi ? Menurut saya TIDAK. Praktek2 yang tidak manusia itu, sadly to say, masih berlangsung di tempat2 tertentu di muka bumi ini. Ada praktek2 pembodohan massal yang mencolok sekali seperti di negara2 Arab itu yang KEBETULAN penduduknya memeluk Islam. Bagaimana selanjutnya is up to the people themselves, mereka mau dicocok hidungnya sebagai "hewan", atau mereka mau menjadi manusia yang memiliki dignity ? (Leo) +++++ --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Dwi W. Soegardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pilih salah satu: Tanda-tanda iman yang benar adalah: A) Orang yang salat tetapi membenci mereka yang bertakwa B) Orang yang bersaksi tiada tuhan selain Allah, tetapi mencintai orang-orang kafir C) Orang yang menyembah Allah semata, mencintai orang-orang yang beriman dan membenci orang-orang kafir. Pertanyaan di atas muncul dalam buku pelajaran agama, dan tampaknya tidak terlalu sulit untuk menentukan jawaban yang "benar." Jangan harap anak didik mendapat poin kalau tidak melingkari huruf "C." Apa benar demikian? Apakah tidak ada jawaban lain? Mengingat pelajaran ini ditanamkan di benak siswa semenjak usia awal, bisa dibayangkan benih-benih kebencian yang tumbuh. Contoh di atas berasal dari buku pelajaran Tauhid dan Fikih untuk kelas 4 SD di Arab Saudi. Bagaimana buku pelajaran kita dulu? Dan bagaimana sekarang? salam, +++++ Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2195684/ A Textbook Case of Intolerance Changing the world one schoolbook at a time. By Anne Applebaum Posted Monday, July 21, 2008, at 8:01 PM ET Because they are so clearly designed for the convenience of large testing companies, I had always assumed that multiple-choice tests, the bane of any fourth grader's existence, were a quintessentially American phenomenon. But apparently I was wrong. According to a report put out by the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom last week, it seems that Saudi Arabians find them useful, too. Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question that appears in a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, Monotheism and Jurisprudence, in a section that attempts to teach children to distinguish "true" from "false" belief in god: Q. Is belief true in the following instances: a) A man prays but hates those who are virtuous. b) A man professes that there is no deity other than God but loves the unbelievers. c) A man worships God alone, loves the believers, and hates the unbelievers. The correct answer, of course, is c). According to the Wahhabi imams who wrote this textbook, it isn't enough just to worship god or just to love other believers—it is important to hate unbelievers as well. By the same token, b) is also wrong. Even a man who worships god cannot be said to have "true belief" if he loves unbelievers. "Unbelievers," in this context, are Christians and Jews. In fact, any child who sticks around in Saudi schools until ninth grade will eventually be taught that "Jews and Christians are enemies of believers." They will also be taught that Jews conspire to "gain sole control of the world," that the Christian crusades never ended, and that on Judgment Day "the rocks or the trees" will call out to Muslims to kill Jews. These passages, it should be noted, are from new, "revised" Saudi textbooks. Following a similar analysis of earlier versions of these same textbooks in 2006, American diplomats immediately approached their Saudi counterparts about the more disturbing passages, and the Saudis agreed to conduct a "comprehensive revision … to weed out disparaging remarks towards religious groups." The promised revision—hailed, at the time, as a great diplomatic success—was supposed to be finished by the beginning of the 2008-09 school year and was accompanied by a Saudi PR campaign. Among other things, the Saudis sponsored an interfaith dialogue last week, one that all participants hailed as a great breakthrough—despite the fact that the actual meetings took place in Spain as it would be too embarrassing for Saudi Arabia to host Christian and Jewish religious leaders on its own soil. But although the beginning of the 2008-09 school year is nearly upon us, the only textbook revisions have been superficial, and the most disturbing part of the message—that faithful Muslims should hate Jews and Christians—remains. Normally, the contents of another country's textbooks would be of no interest to us. Indeed, I've no doubt that there are plenty of U.S. textbooks that contain insane, incorrect, or otherwise unacceptable information. Saudi school textbooks are a special case, however. They are written and produced by the Saudi government and subsequently distributed, free of cost, to Saudi-sponsored schools as far afield as Lagos, Nigeria, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Americans are not the only ones who worry about their influence. In Britain, as small political storm began last year when British mosques were found to be distributing Saudi books that called on Muslims to kill all apostates. Still, even if U.S. diplomacy is a legitimate response to this peculiarly insidious form of propaganda, it clearly isn't a sufficient response. Far more significant, and surely more effective, would be a unified response from the rest of the world's Muslims, the vast majority of whom do not share Saudi views and do, occasionally, say so. The Hudson Insitute report cites a few of them, outside as well as inside Saudi Arabia. It would be useful, for us but especially for them, if they would say so more often and more loudly. Of course, we are not a Muslim nation, and Americans cannot, by themselves, orchestrate a meaningful Muslim response to Saudi extremism. But we do have a large Muslim population, we do have friends in the moderate Muslim world, and we do have some money, much of which is wasted, to spend on public diplomacy. We also have two presidential candidates who are arguing hard this week about the best ways to combat terrorism, the best way to deploy guns and aid, the best uses of American military power. Here is a novel idea for both of them: Make sure that children in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Islamic schools all around the world have decent fourth-grade textbooks. It might save a lot of trouble later on. Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post and Slate columnist. Her most recent book is Gulag: A History. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
