{"id":1018,"date":"2012-02-08T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:31:03","slug":"us-funded-textbooks-teach-afghan-children-whitewashed-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"US-Funded Textbooks Teach Afghan Children Whitewashed History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war<\/a>\u00a0in an almost self-satirizing attempt to \u201cbring people together.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cThere is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or\u00a0the U.S. military presence,\u201d reports the Washington Post. \u201c<\/em>In their efforts to promote a single national identity, Afghan leaders have deemed their own history too controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

When state-funded indoctrination books whitewash entire swathes of relevant history, societal problems don\u2019t simply go away. They\u2019re compounded. Afghans are suffering on a daily basis from war and yet the U.S. and their Afghan \u201ceducation\u201d wardens appear to have decided to\u00a0keep children ignorant of the causes of their country\u2019s troubles.<\/p>\n

Attempting to erase four decades of history is something extremely beneficial for the criminals, thugs, and extremists that have terrorized the country in that time. U.S. officials and the Afghan Ministry presumably want to prevent Afghans from knowing that the Soviets invaded and slaughtered perhaps over a million Afghans, or that the U.S. helped spur extremist jihadis to power, or that the Taliban forced a delusional brand of religious savagery on the people, or that the U.S. has committed extensive atrocities and war crimes throughout ten years of military occupation. Lucky for the Russians, Americans, and Taliban.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur recent history tears us apart. We\u2019ve created a curriculum based on the older history that brings us together, with figures universally recognized as being great,\u201d said Farooq Wardak, Afghanistan\u2019s education minister. \u201cThese are the first books in decades that are depoliticized and de-ethnicized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depoliticized, de-enthicized, and de-factized. The curriculum, which was \u201creviewed\u201d for \u201cinappropriate material\u201d by people the Post<\/em> calls \u201cU.S. military cultural advisers,\u201d is anathema to education. It does the opposite of what education is supposed to do, instead keeping Afghans ignorant and\u00a0doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, never having learned from them in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war\u00a0in an almost self-satirizing attempt to \u201cbring people together.\u201d \u201cThere is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or\u00a0the U.S. military presence,\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":10380,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}