A member of the Turkish parliament's national education commission has said there is no use teaching maths to students who don't know jihad.
Ahmet Hamdi Camli, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), praised the education ministry for including teaching the concept of jihad in the school curriculum.
Mr Camli said "jihad is Islam's most prior element," Turkish daily newspaper Haberturk reported.
“Jihad comes before prayer," he said. "When we look at Ottoman sultans, nearly all of them didn’t even go to hajj in order not to abandon jihad."
.... Mr Camli added: “Our ministry made a very on-point decision. If prayers are the pillars of the religion, jihad is the tent. Without the pillars the tent is useless.
"There’s no use in teaching mathematics to a child who doesn’t know jihad."
Jihad is often translated as "holy war" in the context of fighters waging war against enemies of Islam; but Muslim scholars stress that it also refers to a personal, spiritual struggle against sin. [The Independent] Read more
