As a followup to our item earlier today about CAIR and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Rod Dreher shares some WAMY promotional literature about their Islamic camps for children: Fun at jihad summer camp.

This item sent me to my files, where I pulled out a WAMY pamphlet called “Islamic Camps: Ojbectives, Program Outlines, Preparatory Steps.” Among the goals of these camps, according to the pamphlet, is to let the Muslim kids live “in a purely Islamic environment far from … rising extremism.” OK, so far so good. Then it gives a list of “selected camp chants,” including:

We prefer death and refuse to be belittled
for the Cause of Allah;
O! how sweet a destiny!

We have decided and sworn an oath
To live or die as Muslims
Holding fast to the errors of the corrupt ones
Striving for Muslims to rule
Muslims! Muslims! Muslims!

We, with Islam were the best of nations
And with it conquered Kisraa [a Persian emperor] and Caesar
We have sown Justice in the world
So reap & spread amongst the people “Allahu Akbar”

Ask if you still don’t know who
Muslims! Muslims! Muslims!

…Raise the Qur’aan as the constitution of our time
And fill the horizons with: We are Muslims! Muslims! Muslims! Muslims!

Here’s a bit from a camp chant called “Youth of the True,” which extols Muslim military victories of the past, laments the abandonment of shariah in contemporary times, and urges youth to “unsheath the swords/And don’t be concerned here with difficulties”:

Hail! Hail! O sacrificing soldiers!
To us! To us! So we may defend the flag
On this Day of Jihad, are you miserly with your blood?!
And has life become dearer to you? And staying behind sweeter?
Is staying in this world of torment more pleasing to us?

Death-cult chants are a long way from “A Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall” and other traditional summer camp ballads, that’s for sure. And CAIR, speaking from the world headquarters of the organization that inculcates jihadi values in Muslim youth, has the nerve to wonder why some people in the West have a negative view of Islam.