Western media and Islamic advocacy groups are doing their best to absolve Islam of any responsibility in the beheadings of infidels. Islam does not sanction this type of killing, they tell us.

As Andrew Bostom writes, this is a transparently obvious lie. But the media control the flow of information, and the vast majority of Americans are probably unaware that children throughout the Islamic world are raised to hate and kill infidels—even in Egypt, the country that receives more than two billion US dollars a year in foreign aid: Textbook Jihad in Egypt.

“Studies in Theology: Tradition and Morals, Grade 11, (2001) pp. 291-92 …This noble [Qur’anic] Surah [Surat Muhammad]… deals with questions of which the most important are as follows: ‘Encouraging the faithful to perform jihad in God’s cause, to behead the infidels, take them prisoner, break their power, and make their souls humble - all that in a style which contains the highest examples of urging to fight. You see that in His words: When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Then grant them their freedom or take a ransom from them, until war shall lay down its burdens.’”

“Commentary on the Surahs of Muhammad, Al-Fath, Al-Hujurat and Qaf, Grade 11, (2002) p. 9 …When you meet them in order to fight [them], do not be seized by compassion [towards them] but strike the[ir] necks powerfully…. Striking the neck means fighting, because killing a person is often done by striking off his head. Thus, it has become an expression for killing even if the fighter strikes him elsewhere. This expression contains a harshness and emphasis that are not found in the word “kill”, because it describes killing in the ugliest manner, i.e., cutting the neck and making the organ - the head of the body - fly off [the body].’ ”

Although chilling to our modern sensibilities, particularly when being taught to children, these are merely classical interpretations of the rules for jihad war, based on over a millennium of Muslim theology and jurisprudence.3 And the context of these teachings is unambiguous, as the translator makes clear:

“[the] concept of jihad is interpreted in the Egyptian school curriculum almost exclusively as a military endeavor… it is war against God’s enemies, i.e., the infidels… it is war against the homeland’s enemies and a means to strengthening the Muslim states in the world. In both cases, jihad is encouraged, and those who refrain from participating in it are denounced.”

Here’s the complete study of Egyptian schoolbooks Dr. Bostom cites in his article: Jews, Christians, War and Peace in Egyptian Schoolbooks. The rot goes very deep.