Education ministry ignorant about Nimrod

The Ministry of National Education, saying, “Smash idols,” has pointed to the statues on Mount Nimrod.

Yayınlanma: 18.10.2017 - 14:09
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The Ministry of National Education (MNE) has got its centuries “wrong” and pointed to the statues on Mount Nimrod, having world heritage status, as being idols to children. The Ministry, in the book prepared for the sixth-year Noble Quran course, has mixed up the periods of King Nimrod, who is considered to have cast the prophet Abraham into the fire, and the Kingdom of Commagene, and has included images of the statues on Mount Nimrod in the book to portray idols.
 
The MNE, which states that the prophet Abraham lived in 2100 BC, devotes a lot of space to the issue of “idolatry” in the book in which a description is given of the struggle between Abraham and the Babylonian King Nimrod, who lived in and around Iraq. But, with the Ministry oblivious to the difference between King Nimrod, who is considered to have cast the prophet Abraham into the fire, and Mount Nimrod, a massive scandal has come about in the text book. The statues that the Kingdom of Commagene, which attained its independence in 109 BC centuries after prophet Abraham, erected on Mount Nimrod have been used as images to portray Nimrod’s idols.
 
The MNE, also failing to take account of the geographical difference, has described the statues on Mount Nimrod, situated in the north of Adıyaman’s Kâhta sub-province and forming part of the Taurus chain, as a “centre of faithlessness, immorality, unseemliness and idolatry.”
 
In the book that the MNE has had written by ministry resources and experts, prophet Abraham’s smashing of idols is described at great length along with images of “erroneous” works of art. In the book, in which Abraham is presented as an example to children, speaking of “his plan that he had concocted in his mind” it is told how he “annihilated” the idols. However, appearing on the page on which the story of “Smashing the Idols” is told to children is the Zeus Oromasdes statue, the eagle head statue and the row of giant statues mounted on roughly ten-metre-high pedestals.


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