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| Religious Schools Won't Be Banned Nor Funded: Mahathir |
| 2003-01-13 |
| The Malaysian Prime Minister said Sunday, January 12, that the government will not ban religious schools, despite their anti-government teaching but will not give any grant or assistance to them. The government could not support the school because they do not teach religion but have instead become political institutions, the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) quoted Mahathir Mohammad as saying. "But if they want to carry on spoiling the future of the children, we cannot stop them. We are not going to ask them to spoil the future of the children who will go out hating everything," he told a press conference after performing the ground-breaking for the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) main campus, Bernama reported. Let them stew in their hatred and vitriol, but don't support them in the effort — he's not Solomon, but he's not stupid. I'll bet he's keeping a pretty close eye on where their funding does come from, too... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |