madrasahs

KARZAI: It is extremely important to pay serious attention and take action against some of the places called madrasahs that are not madrasahs but are training extremists full of hatred for the rest of the world.

CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006 2006

One big dispute concerns Pakistan's religious schools called madrasahs (ph).

CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006 2006

RESSA: Across Southeast Asia, investigators say al Qaeda's network, the Jemaah Islamiya, uses Islamic boarding schools, known as madrasahs, and religious study groups to try to recruit and indoctrinate thousands of young boys.

CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2003 2003

After calling Japanese schools of the 1930s the "madrasahs" of their day, Leo wraps up his piece with a look at today's world:

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Certainly many of the group’s followers were and are educated in religious schools known as madrasahs across the border with Pakistan, and support has been particularly forthcoming from the Pashtun community, which can be found in both countries.

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Rigi and many of his followers in the Jundallah grew up in the same madrasahs that the Taliban went to.

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Its strict discipline and sense of purpose proved popular among Pakistan's educated middle class, attracting not only youths educated in traditional madrasahs but urban professionals like doctors and engineers.

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The Wahhabi sect extreme form of Islam was introduced from Saudi Arabia with financial cooperation from the Pentagon, and eventually tens of thousands of madrasahs were established in Persian speaking Afghanistan; schools that would produce thousands of new fighters, including fighters that would join up under Osama bin-Laden, who would also received U.S. funding.

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Even until relatively recent times, large numbers of notable Iranian scholars could be found studying and teaching in the great madrasahs (religious schools).

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The role of madrasahs in fostering extremism came under scrutiny after it emerged that one of the suicide bombers behind the explosions in London on July 7, 2005, had attended a religious school in Pakistan.

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