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2015-12-11 India-Pakistan
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Al-Huda, Tashfeen, and the massacre
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[DAWN] A young mother who attended a religious school for women in Pakistain weds a conservative man. Months later, the two are accused of murdering 14 and injuring many more in an unprovoked attack in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
What made her leave diapers for rifles?
Tashfeen Malik, the young mother and the co-accused in last week's massacre in California, attended the religious teaching centre Al-Huda's regional branch in Multan. Though, Ms. Malik left before completing her studies, acquaintances report her becoming religiously conservative after enrolling at Al-Huda.
The Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation has distanced itself from Ms Malik by posting an official statement on their website:
Tashfeen Malik had studied at Al-Huda International's Multan branch for a brief period between 2013 and 2014. She left without completing the Diploma course. No organization can be held responsible for personal acts of any of its students.
While there has been no publicised connection as yet between the institute and the shooting, the Canadian branch of Al-Huda abruptly shut down Tuesday citing security concerns.
The Centre has been controversial from the very beginning -- in 2014, three of the Centre's former students of Somali heritage, aged 15 to 18, left homes for Syria to join the bad boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group. The Turkish authorities intercepted the girls and returned them to their parents in Canada.
The Canadian authorities are concerned about the extent to which the teaching at Al-Huda Centre inspired the teenage girls to leave their parents for IS snuffies in Syria.
Oscar winning documentary producer, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy expressed similar concerns 10 years ago in an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, titled: 'Islamic school for women faithful or fundamental?'
Ms Obaid-Chinoy interviewed the matriarch running the Al-Huda enterprise, Dr. Farhat Hashmi, in October 2005 soon after a devastating earthquake killed 85,000 and destroyed entire cities in northern Pakistain. Dr. Hashmi was lecturing her students in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, about what caused the devastating earthquake in the country.
"The people in the area where the earthquake hit were involved in immoral activities, and God has said that he will punish those who do not follow his path," she told her Canadian audience comprising entirely of young women.
Such thinking would suggest that perhaps Dr. Hashmi is not very well-educated. Quite the contrary.
Both she and her husband earned doctorates in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Glasgow in 1989. Their dissertations (both titles start with "A critical edition of ...") were supervised by Professor John Mattock and focussed on the sources of Hadiths.
The government of Pakistain funded Dr. Hashmi's studies. 
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