Notable IB Alumnus – Al Qaeda Christmas Terrorist
IB stands for International Baccalaureate, a UNESCO inspired school program that is bought by American public and private schools and whose mission is to teach the political agenda of the UN.
You won’t read about this in the main stream media. Few will ever connect the dots. IB supporters will rail at TAIB for even making this public. But, facts are facts and you can make of this what you will:
As a teen, Abdulmutallab attended the British International School in Lome, Togo, a Nigerian paper reported. There, he quickly acquired a reputation as a devoted Muslim. “At the secondary school, he was known for preaching about Islam to his schoolmates and he was popularly called ‘Alfa,’ a local coinage for Islamic scholar,” according to The Day.
The British School in Lome, Togo, has been a private IB academy since 1994. IBO’s mission statement includes the following: “These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.”
2001: According to Michael Rimmer, his history teacher at the British School, Abdulmutallab is a “very religious” boy who once defends the Taliban during class discussion on the topic. Religiosity aside, Rimmer characterizes Abdulmutallab as a “dream” student: “Very keen, enthusiastic, very bright, very polite.”
A polite terrorist. Did the IB education Abdulmultallab received teach him that his defense of the Taliban was “right”? Apparently so.
Who is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab?
International Baccalaureate Schools
All of which begs the question:
Does IBO Condone Terrorism?
In 2008, a disturbing trend in the IB authorization process came to light. Two Islamic academies, one in London, one in Fairfax, Virginia, were both authorized as IB World Schools. Both schools are private and run by the Saudi Arabian government.
The King Fahad Academy in London was written up in the UK papers during the time it was pursuing IB authorization. According to the timesonline.co.uk, the school was ordered by a tribunal to award a teacher it had unfairly dismissed £70,000 for making public allegations that the school was engaged in anti-Judeo Christian teaching. Extracts from an Arabic textbook revealed that children were taught to believe that all religions other than Islam were “worthless”. The books in question referred to “the repugnant characteristics of Jews” and stated, “Those whom God has cursed and with whom He is angry, He has turned into monkeys and pigs. They worship Satan.”
Apparently, this sort of news didn’t enter into or in any way affect the IB team’s evaluation process of the school. The above story was published on April 15, 2008, and in June, 2008, the King Fahad Academy became an IB World School. One particularly upset and diligent London parent undertook a letter writing campaign to obtain an explanation from IBO as to how they could justify authorizing a school where its teachings were so clearly contrary to IB’s mission statement. After many detailed e-mails which provided links to the newspaper stories, she finally received a reply from the Director General himself, Jeffrey Beard. In the letter, Mr. Beard stated that the King Fahad Academy, “met and continues to meet all of our standards. The matters you raise in your correspondence was [sic] not in evidence during the authorization visit and appears to be unfounded.”
To any rational and right minded thinker, this response from the CEO of an educational company should set off all sorts of alarm bells. Grammatical construct of the response aside, was there anything involved in the authorization visit besides rubber stamping the authorization? According to Beard, the process is “rigorous”. Were these egregious teaching practices and news stories not “in evidence” because the IB turned a blind eye? What kind of standards does IB have if this school met them? During the same two year application period, the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) here in the U.S. was making news of its own. The school had earned the nickname “Terror High”. In 2004, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for first grade textbooks which taught that “any religion other than Islam is false” to be removed. The school’s 1999 Valedictorian was arrested in 2005 for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, and he was just recently sentenced to life in prison. Of course, the sentencing of the former ISA student was never mentioned in the mainstream media. More recently, another ISA student was arrested at a Florida airport for carrying a 7″ butcher knife and the Principal was arrested by Fairfax County Police for not reporting the abuse of a little girl and for following Sharia law by turning her back over to her father. World maps throughout the school conspicuously omit the country of Israel. Ninth grade textbooks allegedly contained diagrams of where to properly cut off the hands and feet of a thief. None of these arrests or the general atmosphere at the school seemed to make any difference to IB which authorized the Islamic Saudi Academy as an IB World School in December, 2008.
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It would seem that IB failed to create a “caring global citizen” who aims to make the “world a better and more peaceful place”.