How far is it from evangelism or perhaps even what “appears" to be fairly benign Sunday school to this?

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND:
By David Kupelian   2000 WorldNetDaily.com (Abridged).

Jerusalem cleric praises child 'sacrifices':  

Speaking to the Egyptian weekly, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, Sheik 'Ikrima Sabri, the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, addressed several issues regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict -- including his admiration for the child "martyrs."

Stressing that "Every Palestinian is, in fact, in a state of Jihad," Sabri praised the Palestinian "martyrs," and particularly the children that are proudly thrust by their parents and other combatants into the frontlines of conflicts with Israelis.

"I feel the martyr is lucky because the angels usher him to his wedding in heaven," he said.

"The younger the martyr, the greater and the more I respect him. 

“In every martyr's pocket we find a note with his name on it. He sentences himself to martyrdom even before he becomes a martyr." 

In response to the interviewer's question, "Is this why the mothers cry with joy when they hear about their sons' death?" Sabri answered: "They willingly sacrifice their offspring for the sake of freedom. It is a great display of the power of belief. The mother is participating in the great reward of the Jihad to liberate Al-Aqsa ... I talked to a young man ... [who] said: '... I want to marry the black-eyed [beautiful] women of heaven.' The next day he became a martyr. I am sure his mother was filled with joy about his heavenly marriage. Such a son must have such a mother."

Palestinian children are taught almost from birth to hate Jews and to glorify "jihad" (holy war) -- even to the point of their own death and "martyrdom" -- as an essential part of their culture. As WorldNetDaily reported recently, a Sesame Street-like television program called the "Children's Club," complete with puppet shows, songs and a Mickey Mouse character, celebrates violence and terror, teaching Palestinian children songs like "When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber." A video documenting the children's program also shows kids singing songs about taking up "a machine gun" to direct "violence, anger, anger, anger" against Israelis. 

A Palestinian journalist and activist chastised the dominant culture of the Palestinians today: "We abuse their (children’s) innocence, we supply them with tons of stones, while we sit in our offices and commend their death. Then we accept an invitation for a working lunch or dinner and talk about those children who died holding stones, those that died, probably hungry."

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Talking "education's influence" on Young Children 

“Girl's suicide highlights Singapore school stress by Amy Tan Reuters August 29, 2001"

Lysher Loh left her home in Singapore early one day but never made it to school. The 10-year-old, by all accounts a top student with a cheerful personality, had confided in her father about pressure from mounds of homework and joked with classmates about what she would do if her Chinese-language grades didn't improve. With her parents still in bed, she asked the maid if she could skip class that day - the start of the new term after the mid-year holidays. Minutes later, dressed in school T-shirt and shorts, Lysher went up to the fifth floor of her apartment block and leapt to the pavement below. Her right slipper was left behind. The incident has spotlighted Singapore's pressure-cooker schools and society's demands on children to strive for success from a tender age. "Many pupils find the education system to be stressful," Dr Anthony Chang, a psychologist with the National University of Singapore, told Reuters. "Where schoolwork is concerned, there should be no casualties," he said. "No one should die because of school."

Source:http://www.sfdonline.org/Link%20Pages/Link%20Folders/01Pf/reut290801.html

BBC report 9/11/04 Malaysian female Siti is in fear of being arrested because she had a male electrician working in her house unchaperoned. As potential, first to be condoned, Malaysian FEMALE Sharia Judge put it... 'overzealous religious police who believe they are every Muslim's moral guardian are in fact abusing the Sharia (Islamic) Laws. Solution... sack the police... hmmm probably a bit hard to do!