You’ve got to be carefully taught

The title comes from a Rodgers and Hammerstein song from ‘South Pacific’:

You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

Last week a resident of Britain, Pervez Khan, was sentenced to life in prison for his plot to capture and behead a British soldier – on camera – and publish it for propaganda purposes. An electronic bug provided much of the evidence against him. The tapes from that bug were also released last week.

Here is Khan carefully teaching his five year old son:

“Who do you kill?” asked Khan.

“America kill,” said the boy.

“Who else you kill?” said Khan.

“Bush I kill,” said the boy.

“And who else?” demanded Khan.

“Blair kill, both people kill”…

Then the pair began chanting at each other.

Khan said: “Kuffar [non-believers]” the boy said: “Kill.”

Khan said: “Mushrik [polytheists]” and the boy said: “Kill.”

Then it continued with: “Hindu?… Kill… Sheedi [blacks]?… Kill…”

ht ‘Zen of Zero’

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