Osama Bin Laden
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The education of Osama Bin Laden occurred in his native Saudi Arabia at the schools of Jedda. He and other privileged students went to high school at the al-Thagh school, an “elite Western-style Saudi school,” (Burke 4). After graduating high school he shunned Western education like his brothers received in foreign schools and studied economics, management, and civil engineering at King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda. At both of these schools, Bin Laden was also extensively training in an extreme Islamic form of fundamentalism known as Wahhabism, based on the teaching of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, founder of the Islamic Wahhabi movement in the 18th century (Stalinsky 1). Bin Laden, like many other disaffected Muslim youths, was particularly drawn to the Islamic studies components of the curricula. One component of these studies was video tapes recorded by a fiery Palestinian-born Jordanian academic known as Abdallah Azzam. The fiery rhetoric on the tapes and “Azzam’s recorded sermons had a powerful impact” on Bin Laden, (Burke 7).Wahhabism is an extreme Islamic fundamentalism that advocates Muslims return to the fundamentals of Islam as practiced by the Prophet Muhammad. The concept of spreading Islam to every corner of the earth is a fundamental concept that underlies Saudi Arabia’s educational system. Wahhabi is a strict and conservative form of Sunni Islam. Saudi Arabian education includes the most pervasive themes in Islam. A book ent
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hools. Such education begins quite early on in the life of a student like Bin Laden once was. For example, the following excerpt is from a chapter known as Dictation taught to eighth-graders and speaks of Jews and Judaism, “Jews are a people of treachery and betrayal and their end, by God’s will, is perdition,” (Harris 1). Another excerpt from a book called Geography of the Muslim calls for the destruction if Israel, “All Muslims stand together to achieve purification of Jerusalem from the filth of Zionism, and the liberation of Palestine,” (Harris 1-2). Another excerpt taught to eighth-graders demonstrates that Bin Laden’s animosity toward the U.S. and the West in general was also fostered from an early age. As another passage in Geography of the Muslim reads, “Britain and the U.S. worked for the establishment of the Zionist entity…that it would become a supporting base for Imperialist and Zionist interests at the heart of the Muslim world,” (Harris 2).
The education of Saudi Arabian students that fosters such animosity toward Israelis and the West continues as students reach an older age. In the tenth grade, students are treated to more anti-West and anti-Semitic teachings in a book known as Biography of the Prophet and
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