A U.S. charity named Gaza Children Village, founded by Dr. David Hasan, has started several Academies of Hope in Gaza and plans to use AI to monitor the classrooms and cut off radicalization at its root by flagging any “hateful” or “inciting” content, reports Associated Press.
Hasan has previously said that monitoring the classroom helps train teachers to uphold a curriculum aimed at “de-radicalization.” While he admitted this method is controversial, he asked for trust as he see this the only way to “survive” and “deliver” this curriculum.
Examples of flagged antisemitic content is numbering martyrs for math class, calling Jerusalem the capital of Palestine and demonstrating support for imprison Palestinians in Israel with a description of a boy who was shot.
Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) says that for generations, radicalization has started in the earliest grades in school.
“They have taken Islam to its ultimate end, which is to teach children to die and to commit suicide and to kill as many people as they can on the way out,” Bachmann says.
The cycle of radicalization, she says, can be stopped in one generation, and it's been done before.
“We only need to look at Nazi Germany and also post-war Japan. There needed to be a changing, a de-radicalization of the curriculum and of the thinking in both of those societies,” Bachmann states.
The next step is to build a truly moderate Muslim government, like they had in Lebanon before Hezbollah or Iran in the days of the Shaw or Turkey in the 1920s.
“That intermediate step, I think, begins with making it uncomfortable to teach the Qur’an in its form to children,” Bachmann states.
But the children of Gaza will never know true peace until they meet Jesus Christ, she says.
“The greatest place for humankind is the Bible, and to receive the God of the Bible. We can have a new life, we can have a redeemed life if we ask Jesus Christ to come in,” Bachmann says.
