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| India-Pakistan |
| Madressa Network Phenomenon |
| 2015-03-05 |
| [DAWN] There are several figures for how big the madressa network/industry is. A study published in 2007 claimed that there were 16,000 madressas registered with the five wafaqs (boards), out of which 9,500 were Deobandi, 4,500 Barelvi, 1,000 run by Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , 500 Ahl-e-Hadith, and 500 Ahl-e-Tashi. In another study, published in 2008 by Jaddon Park and Sarfaroz Niyozov, the number of madressas was put at 13,000. The authors also claimed that these institutions enrolled anything between 0.3 per cent to 33 per cent of children from the ages of five to 19 across Pakistain. The quantitative paradigm, however, is illusive, as it does not help capture the real essence of this phenomenon. A 2001 study by Tahir Andarabi for the World Bank dispelled the notion that the majority of Pak children went to madressas. His claim was that it was just one per cent of the total school going population. This argument challenged the popular perception that madressas produced bully boys, as they had done in the case of the Taliban, who were largely trained and indoctrinated in Pak seminaries. Some suggested that while not all seminaries were bad, those representing a certain ideology were more troublesome. Fingers were pointed at Deobandi seminaries in the country. But then some academics also challenged the linear link between militancy and madressas. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 This old cartoon seems relevant. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-05 20:11 |
| #2 A long but valuable read. |
| Posted by: Ulique Pelosi8805 2015-03-05 08:42 |
| #1 follow the money ie saudi |
| Posted by: paul 2015-03-05 04:33 |
