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| 2003-11-06 | |
Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Wednesday the government was set to launch a long-delayed plan to monitor Islamic seminaries, which have often been accused of breeding religious extremists. Hayat told Reuters that a new law to monitor and regulate the seminaries, or madrassahs, would be put before cabinet in about a month. âThe policy is aimed at monitoring the activities of these madrassahs, of these organisations, keeping a watch on their performance,â Hayat said. Hayat said the vast majority of the madrassahs were just educational institutions. They teach mostly Islam, some rudimentary mathematics and other sciences. âWe have no problem with them. The problem arises with a few madrassahs,â he said.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Wednesday the government was set to launch a long-delayed plan to monitor Islamic seminaries, which have often been accused of breeding religious extremists. "Monitor"? As in just watching? Or will there be (hopefully) some constructive involvement? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-6 11:07:32 AM |
| #2 LH - Spot-on. Just spewing the IslamIST party line of hating kufr, kafr, kafir, kaffir, infidels will be fine since the "monitor" will be a Muslim. After all, it'll get you phreaking killed in Pakiland to actually be rational or tolerant, so he's gonna complain? Hah! Only the spew view is allowed. And none of that Science or Health or Mathematics or History (except the Indians did it!) or anything else unnecessary for employment as a jihadi. This be a Paki joke. |
| Posted by: .com (RoPMA) 2003-11-6 10:48:57 AM |
| #1 I wonder how many madrassahs there are altogether in Pakland. I suspect so many that its possible that most could be refraining from training for active jihad, and yet those that are could still be numerous. Also I suspect that Pak govt considers "problem" to be active recruiting and training for AQ, Taliban, and Paki groups that engage in domestic violence in Pakland. I doubt that they consider recruiting and training for Jihad in Kashmir a problem. And i doubt they worry to much about general anti-Kaffir hatred and jihadi thought (a la Saudi) as long as its not tied to actual recruitment and training. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-11-6 9:31:42 AM |