If Obama wins you can start learning Arabic as your second language and stop whinning about learning Spanish. Since all you Obama supports ignored all the support he was getting from the Middle East. Yes, go bury your head in the sand. If you think they are incapable of such thing look how young they start the hate lessons of all non-Muslims. updated 7:45 p.m. CT, Wed., June. 11, 2008
McLEAN, Va. - Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.
Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists."
The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.
I
- 1
- 2
Waiting in Line
Email To A Friend
Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.
It would be the Democratic Party that would benefit long-term if these voters participate enthusiastically. It's not simply that in some polls Barack Obama has nearly twice the support among 18- to 29-year-olds that John McCain has, that his youth and biracial identity have tapped into the more polyglot nation that has been the birthright of young Americans. It's not just that his campaign was onboard early with the new technologies the young take for granted; a week before the election, for instance, Obama had more than 2.3 million friends on Facebook, while McCain had just over 610,000.
The bottom line is that the net effect of young people's enthusiasm about Obama is likely to outstrip his candidacy. There's data suggesting that once people vote they will vote again, making it a civic habit, and that party affiliation tends to remain unchanged from a relatively early age. The young Democrats voting today will be the middle-aged Democrats voting tomorrow. As Norman Ornstein wrote more than 20 years ago, the party that secures the youth vote secures the power for the next generation.
It's fashionable in election-analysis circles to suggest that there's less to the youth vote than meets the eye, that many are registered but few show up. There are statistics to prove that, too. In 2000 only about one in three of those between the ages of 18 and 24 voted, a much lower rate than their elders.
But by 2004 the youth vote had risen by 11 percent. A group of those young people became the heroes of that election night—and a symbol of bureaucratic election snafus—at Kenyon College in Ohio. The combination of a massive campus registration drive and old-think by the Board of Elections resulted in lines in which some students stood for 10 hours, finally casting their votes at 4 a.m. (When he gave the commencement speech at the college in 2006, John Kerry joked, "I wish all Republicans had been just like you at Kenyon—informed, willing to stand up for your views and only 10 percent of the vote.") Those students wouldn't budge; they were determined to be counted. If enough of their peers do the same, it bodes well not only for the future of the Democratic Party, but also for the future of a country that had seemed to lose faith in the franchise.
© 2008
- 1
- 2
My Take
Each Newsweek reader is different—and now your Newsweek can be, too. Use this page to create a experience that's personalized for you and your interests. My Take: it makes Newsweek whatever you want it to be.
Discuss