madrasas

It emerged as a coherent force in the early to mid-1990s, with the support of the Pakistani security services, as a loosely aligned movement of Pashtun Afghans, many of whom had studied at religious schools -- "madrasas" -- in or sponsored by Pakistan, or had fought against the Soviets during the latter's occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s.

Mark Levine: Obama and the Taliban 2008

An American official as quoted in the New York Times observed, "Last week's incident makes it more urgent" to bring stability to the tribal areas where militancy thrives and into Karachi, the biggest city where radical religious schools known as madrasas are popular.

Raymond J. Learsy: "If You See Something Say Something" -- The Failed Times Square Bombing and the Price of Oil 2010

Yet the young men who trained in these camps were not educated in the Islamic schools called madrasas and they were inspired less by extremist Islamic ideology than by their desires to see the world, handle weapons, and have a youthful adventure.

Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave Rashid, Ahmed 2008

As journalists huddled inside their rooms at the heavily guarded Quetta Serena Hotel, thousands of militants, many of them students enrolled in the city's Islamic schools of learning (known as madrasas) chanted anti-U.S. slogans, fired rifles in the air, then set out to destroy Quetta's symbols of secular and Western culture.

The Last Picture Show 2007

And that's why I'm pleading with President Musharraf, that for the sake of security for all of us, and for our allies, it is extremely important to pay serious attention and take action against some of the places, called madrasas (ph), that are not madrasas (ph) -- that are training extremists full of hatred for the rest of the world.

CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2006 2006

What's going on in the world, there's a lot of money going into these so-called madrasas schools that are -- and they aren't training people in mathematics or languages or sciences or whatever, humanity.

CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2002 2002

AMANPOUR: Some of the so-called madrasas, the religious schools here, are in effect breeding grounds for terrorism.

CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2001 2001

AMANPOUR: Some of the so-called madrasas, the religious schools here, are in effect breeding grounds for terrorism.

CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2001 2001

Pakistanis of the urgency of getting American development aid in place in the tribal areas where militancy thrives, and into Karachi, the biggest city, where radical religious schools, known as madrasas, are popular.

Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) 2010

Gorakhpur, July 27: Students of 'madrasas' in Gorakhpur are not getting the benefits of the central government's Mid-Day Meal scheme.

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