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  • This madarsa, quite likely unique in the country, is 10 km east of Raigunj in North Dinajpur.

    India News Digest: TCS Plays Safe 2009

  • Abu Bashir, a madarsa teacher from the Azamgarh district of UP, was being interrogated by the Gujarat crime branch officials since his arrest in connection with the Ahmedabad blasts.

    Abu Bashir Connected to Delhi Blast Case 2008

  • They get sold out to people who lure them with money, says the 42-year-old madarsa-educated Maulana, who took charge of the family-run Lal Masjid...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Maulana Amir Siddique, the head of Lal Masjid and nephew of Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed last July in the Pakistan Army operation on the mosque-madarsa complex, told The Indian Express: In democracy, the weightage of votes by an illiterate or a drug addict is the same as that of an educated, pious person.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Maulana Amir Siddique, the head of Lal Masjid and nephew of Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed last July in the Pakistan Army operation on the mosque-madarsa complex, told The Indian Express: In democracy, the weightage of votes by an illiterate or a drug addict is the same as that of an educated, pious person.

    Numerical majority doesn’t mean that the capable are being elected Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Though the link between the madrasas and Al Qaeda is often exaggerated — the overwhelming majority of international Salafi jehadis are educated in Western-style colleges — it is true that madarsa students have been closely involved in the rise of the Taliban and the growth of sectarian violence; it is also true that the education provided by many madarsas is often wholly inadequate to equip children for modern life in a civil society.

    Pakistan On The Long Road To Freedom 2008

  • They get sold out to people who lure them with money, says the 42-year-old madarsa-educated Maulana, who took charge of the family-run Lal Masjid...

    In politics and economics, people believe what makes them feel good Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • The minister maintained that "there was no question at all of undermining the madarsa 'education or undermining Article 29 and Article 30" and added that "if there were certain concerns, we we will address them."

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • It had decided to send Shyam to a madarsa in Punjab and the girl was allowed to stay with her uncle at Somain village, police said, adding the youth had returned recently during a vacation.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Re: London suicide bomber brainwashed in a madarsa in pakistan rss hindu terror Organisation against all non hindu in india.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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