With Afghan schools destroyed, millions of boys were instead educated across the border in Pakistani madrassas, or religious seminaries, where they were fed an extreme, violence-laden version of Islam. Looking to keep the war fueled, Washington—where the prevailing ethos was to bleed the Russians until the last Afghan—financed textbooks for schoolchildren in refugee camps that were festooned with illustrations of Kalashnikovs, swords, and overturned tanks. One such edition declared: "Jihad is a kind of war that Muslims fight in the name of God to free Muslims.... If infidels invade, jihad is the obligation of every Muslim." An American text designed to teach children the Farsi alphabet began:
designed to leach children the Farsi alphabet began:
Aleph is (forAllah; Allah is one
Bey [is for Baba (father); Father goes to the mosque
Tey lis (For Tofang (rifle); Javed obtains rifles for the
mujahedeen
Jeem is (for Jihad; Jihad is an obligation. My mom went
to the jihad.
The cult of martyrdom, the veneration of jihad, the
easting of music and cinema as sinful—mee heard
only from the pulpits of a few zealots—now became
the common vocabulary of resistance nationwide.
The US-backed mujahideen branded those
supporting the Communist government, or even
simply refusing ro pick sides, as "infidels,"
and justified the killing of civilians by labeling them
apostates. They waged assassination campaigns
against professors and civil servants, bombed movie
theaters, and kidnapped humanitarian workers.
Wo taught them theses tactics
the CIA
designed to leach children the Farsi alphabet began:
Aleph is (forAllah; Allah is one
Bey [is for Baba (father); Father goes to the mosque
Tey lis (For Tofang (rifle); Javed obtains rifles for the
mujahedeen
Jeem is (for Jihad; Jihad is an obligation. My mom went
to the jihad.
The cult of martyrdom, the veneration of jihad, the
easting of music and cinema as sinful—mee heard
only from the pulpits of a few zealots—now became
the common vocabulary of resistance nationwide.
The US-backed mujahideen branded those
supporting the Communist government, or even
simply refusing ro pick sides, as "infidels,"
and justified the killing of civilians by labeling them
apostates. They waged assassination campaigns
against professors and civil servants, bombed movie
theaters, and kidnapped humanitarian workers.
Wo taught them theses tactics
the CIA
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