madrassas

The MPGB revealed that up to 40 per cent of teachers in madrassas hit or scold their children and that between 15 and 20 cases of sex abuse occur each year.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

But the principle criticism of madrassas is that many of them give a primarily religious education, graduating students with very little secular education.

Matthew Yglesias » Marshall Plans for All 2007

A good op-ed piece from the NY Times, confirming earlier reports that terrorism doesn't spring from poverty or from being educated in madrassas; rather, most terrorists who have struck Western targets in recent years are quite well educated, many in Western universities.

The Madrassa Myth JDsg 2005

A good op-ed piece from the NY Times, confirming earlier reports that terrorism doesn't spring from poverty or from being educated in madrassas; rather, most terrorists who have struck Western targets in recent years are quite well educated, many in Western universities.

Archive 2005-06-01 JDsg 2005

Traditional Islamic schools, known as madrassas, have gotten some negative attention in recent years.

India's ‘Model Madrassas’ Substitute Tolerance for Orthodoxy 2011

Traditional Islamic schools, known as madrassas, have gotten some negative attention in recent years.

India's ‘Model Madrassas’ Substitute Tolerance for Orthodoxy 2011

But, critics express doubt that the counter-radicalization programs can overcome the effect of thousands of Islamic seminaries across Pakistan, known as madrassas, where children of mostly-impoverished families are given only religious education.

Pakistani Military Tries to Reform Former Militants 2011

Indonesia schools are called madrassas -- and most of them are secular madrassas.

Big Union Targets Swing States With Massive Obama-Not-Muslim Mailer Blitz 2009

They're young, they're desperate and they're vulnerable -- young boys and men inside Islamic schools called madrassas -- perfect targets for the Taliban as they seek a constant supply of suicide bombers.

CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009 2009

Rumsfeld says the schools, known as madrassas, may be churning out new terrorists faster than the United States can kill or capture them.

Start the phased withdrawal from Iraq! 2008