 Bangladesh's madrasas have no links with militants blamed for a spate of bombings, said the head of one of the best-known Islamic schools in the country, adding that arrests of teachers and scholars was persecution.
| And who should know better than the guys who run them? |
But Moulana Shah Ahmadullah Ashraf also told Reuters on Wednesday that he thought suicide bombers in Iraq were "heroes".
| We kinda guessed that, of course... |
Police have arrested more than 250 people for the Aug 17 blasts across Bangladesh, which killed two people and injured about 100. Authorities say those arrested include many teachers and students from Islamic schools, or madrasas. "Our students have never been involved in any extremist or terror activities," said Ahmadullah, head of the Jamiya Nuriya Islamia madrasa at Kamrangirchar, near Dhaka. "We produce Islamic scholars, but not bombers, because killing of innocent people is forbidden in Islam," he said.
| Even though the people doing it are heroes... |
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