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| US NGO requested for madrassa teachers' training |
| 2007-07-18 |
| Pakistan has requested International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD), a US NGO, to hold seminars for educating its madrassa teachers on interfaith harmony, religious tolerance, human rights and womenÂ’s rights. An ICRD delegation will reach Islamabad shortly to discuss the request with Pakistani officials, Daily Times has learnt. ICRD is already training Pakistani madrassa teachers under a madrassa reforms programme, which includes incorporation of social and scientific courses in madrassas. Religious Affairs Ministry Secretary Vakil Ahmad Khan confirmed the development to Daily Times. He said he had telephonic talk with a top official of the ICRD Monday night in which he (the secretary) had proposed ICRD workshops for madrassa teachers. He said the ICRD delegation was likely to visit the country in a month or two to discuss arrangement of the workshops. Last month, a five-member delegation of Ittehad Tanzeematul Madaris (ITMD), a representative body of countryÂ’s madaris, visited the US and attended a training workshop of the ICRD. The delegation consisted of five clerics, Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Maulana Hanif Jalandhri, Allama Qazi Niaz Naqvi, Maulana Naeemur Rehman and Dr Attaur Rehman. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Note that three of the five have the same "Rehman" surname. Wasn't one of the Red Mosques also a "Rehman"? They're obviously all from the same tribe, if not from the same family. Wonder how trustworthy they are? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-07-18 13:43 |
| #3 Pakistan has requested International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD), a US NGO, to hold seminars for educating its madrassa teachers on interfaith harmony, religious tolerance, human rights and womenÂ’s rights. Jeebus, as if the jihadis don't think we're weak enough already, they have to go spew this crap in the hornet's nest? Better to shut up and keep stupidity in doubt than to open your mouth and remove all doubts! The delegation consisted of five clerics, Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Maulana Hanif Jalandhri, Allama Qazi Niaz Naqvi, Maulana Naeemur Rehman and Dr Attaur Rehman. Any of these names ring a bell? And just who is this Dr.? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-07-18 09:52 |
| #2 This is just a program to leach funds from the US Treasury. I'll wager that Pak will approach the State Department to fund this. This is what Margaret Bourke-White wrote in 1949: The Messiah and The Promised Land "America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs America," was Jinnah's reply. "Pakistan is the pivot of the world, as we are placed" -- he revolved his long forefinger in bony circles -- "the frontier on which the future position of the world revolves." He leaned toward me, dropping his voice to a confidential note. "Russia," confided Mr. Jinnah, "is not so very far away." This had a familiar ring. In Jinnah's mind this brave new nation had no other claim on American friendship than this - that across a wild tumble of roadless mountain ranges lay the land of the BoIsheviks. I wondered whether the Quaid-i-Azam considered his new state only as an armored buffer between opposing major powers. He was stressing America's military interest in other parts of the world. "America is now awakened," he said with a satisfied smile. Since the United States was now bolstering up Greece and Turkey, she should be much more interested in pouring money and arms into Pakistan. "If Russia walks in here," he concluded, "the whole world is menaced." In the weeks to come I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam's thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. "Surely America will build up our army," they would say to me. "Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in." But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. "No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan." This hope of tapping the U. S. Treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan's own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze. Jinnah's most frequently used technique in the struggle for his new nation had been the playing of opponent against opponent. Evidently this technique was now to be extended into foreign policy. .... |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-18 08:01 |
| #1 A couple of seminars will prepare madrassah teachers to take on courses like science and mathematics that in the West require a four-year university degree? How clever the Lions of Islam are, to be sure! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-18 06:50 |