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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the principle criticism of madrassas is that many of them give a primarily religious education, graduating students with very little secular education. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ JDsg (2005)
Traditional Islamic schools, known as madrassas, have gotten some negative attention in recent years. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Indonesia schools are called madrassas -- and most of them are secular madrassas. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Rumsfeld says the schools, known as madrassas, may be churning out new terrorists faster than the United States can kill or capture them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The policy on the madrassas was his most blatant failure. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Rumsfeld frets that the religious schools known as madrassas are turning out terrorists at a faster clip than U.S. forces can capture them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And that's why I am pleading with President Musharraf that, for the sake of security for all of us and for our allies, it is extremely important to place serious attention and take action against some of the places called madrassas that are not madrassas, but are training extremists full of hatred for the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2006)
GORANI: Well, yes, the issue of terrorism concerns the world, and some are concerned that Pakistan is a potential hotbed for future terrorists and that its religious schools, some of them, at least -- they're called madrassas -- are incubators of hate. ❋ Unknown (2006)
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 madrassas that are not madrassas, but are training extremists, full of hatred for the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2006)
STERN: Which, of course, represent a relatively small proportion of religious seminaries, which are known as madrassas in Pakistan, function as orphanages for the very poor and inculcate into them the notion that the best way to worship Allah is to donate their lives in a purported jihad. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Pakistani officials and news reports have said items recovered from Davis included a telescope, a 9mm pistol and a camera containing pictures of bridges and religious schools known as madrassas. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The gap is being filled by religious schools known as madrassas that often focus only on Islamic teachings with no modern subjects and TV-watching banned as a sin. ❋ Unknown (2010)
