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2010-01-09 Arabia

Yemen university in focus after Christmas terror attempt

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Posted by ryuge 2010-01-09 01:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 If all they study is islam, then it is not a university, it's a madrassa. The distinction is important.

Posted by Solomon Glulet1502 2010-01-09 09:09|| 2010-01-09 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm guessing they don't have much of an alumni association.

Posted by Skunky Glins**** 2010-01-09 19:12|| 2010-01-09 19:12|| Front Page Top

#3 A university doesn't teach practical skills like how to blow up airliners.

Posted by Perfesser 2010-01-09 19:24|| 2010-01-09 19:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Any chemical engineering major who can't figure out how to blow up a little jet airplane doesn't deserve his/her degree, Perfessor, nor most of the chemistry majors. On the other hand, Theory & Practice of Contained and Uncontained Explosions is not a listed chapter in the Koran, the Sunna, or the Hadiths.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 20:30|| 2010-01-09 20:30|| Front Page Top

#5 "the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism"

Sounds like a good place to send a well-placed drone or ~~two~~ twenty.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-09 21:34|| 2010-01-09 21:34|| Front Page Top

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