Critique of Educational Curriculum Changes

But when we saw the Zionist reports,

they confirmed all our doubts and suspicions about what is happening in our curricula,

the sun can no longer be hidden by a sieve, or anything else, a fence

or a wall.

Now the issue has become very difficult for the curricula and the Ministry to defend.

It is, because we read in the reports that they talk about

two stages. In their 2019 report, they talk about

challenging or removing fundamentalist Islam. What does that mean? It means

the Quran and the Sunnah. In the 2019 report, they criticize,

saying that the hadith was compiled long after the Prophet, peace be upon him,

so its narrations are doubtful,

and that this source should not be relied upon.

They also say that we lie in our curricula about some accounts

concerning the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Imagine, in the report of

25, they talk about the achievements and the qualitative

leap. They talk about enormous achievements in all

fields, in combating antisemitism, accepting Jews, accepting

others, the issue of sexual deviance, the issue of the

Gender, they speak of achievements and a qualitative leap in

our curricula in challenging Islam and removing it from the picture.

I mean, I want to tell you, in 2014, when a group of

our officials meets with foreign officials, their discussion is

that they open Jordanian textbooks and tell you, “You open Arabic and find religion.

You open social studies and find religion.” And these are our officials now.

I’m talking about people who are here now, who tell you, “You open social studies and find religion.

You open Arabic and find religion. You open Islamic education and find religion.”

This foundation is being removed, to the point that

social studies, across 3,000 pages, contains no verse or hadith.

Religion is not connected to the homeland, religion is not connected to morals, religion is not connected

to values, and religion is not connected to any social issue that must be discussed

from a humanitarian perspective, and only a humanitarian one.