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	Madrassa alert - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Madrassas there began to seriously proliferate when jihadists were needed to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
		There are currently up to 1 million madrassas in Pakistan, a minority of which, perhaps 15 percent, indoctrinate their pupils with Islamic vitriol and militancy.
		The administration should urge the Pakistani government to require madrassas to register, to expand the curriculum and to declare sources of funding.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20031029-084548-9640r.htm (480 words)

	PeterBergen.com - Articles - The Madrassa Myth
		IT is one of the widespread assumptions of the war on terrorism that the Muslim religious schools known as madrassas, catering to families that are often poor, are graduating students who become terrorists.
		While madrassas may breed fundamentalists who have learned to recite the Koran in Arabic by rote, such schools do not teach the technical or linguistic skills necessary to be an effective terrorist.
		While madrassas are an important issue in education and development in the Muslim world, they are not and should not be considered a threat to the United States.
	www.peterbergen.com /bergen/articles/details.aspx?id=222 (518 words)

	The 3rd world view
		Madrassa refers to an Islamic school for Muslims, just as parochial schools for Catholics or yeshivas for Jews.
		The Kowmi Madrassa is the final level that issues degrees claimed as equivalents of a Masters level.
		We are doing injustice to the Madrassa students by not condemning the atrocities against them and not bettering their conditions regarding education and establishment.
	rezwanul.blogspot.com /2004/09/madrassa-education-anachronism-or.html (1000 words)

	Pakistan Falters in Madrassa Reform
		This week, an umbrella group representing most of the madrassas said they would reject a government campaign launched last month to register the schools by the year's end, amid concern they would have to reveal their sources of funding.
		Madrassas provide free schooling and board to at least 1.1 million students, many of them from poor families ill-served by the state education system in this impoverished country of 150 million.
		She estimated 10 percent to 15 percent of madrassas were recruiting grounds for jihadis — such as the school near the eastern city of Lahore visited by the London bomber — and were beyond reform and would have to be closed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/15/international/i013831D33.DTL (841 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 143 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Madrassas are Muslim religious schools where the students are given religious teachings according to the Koran and Sunnah.
		To inspire the madrassas to reform in a coherent manner, there is no alternative to reforming their curriculum to incorporate modern knowledge so that everybody concerned is benefited.
		Reforming the whole madrassa curriculum, including training of the teachers, exchange visits of teachers and students, are some effective steps for mainstreaming the education system.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/10/15/d41015020531.htm (961 words)

	Madrassa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A madrassa is an Arabic language word meaning "school." Typically it refers to an Islamic school for Muslims.
		It is similar to a parochial school or a yeshiva, where the purpose is to teach children about the religion of Islam.
		A madrassa typically offers two courses of study, a "hifz" course to memorize the Qur'an and become a hafiz, and an Alim course to become a scholar or Mullah.
	www.portaljuice.com /madrassa.html (301 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| February 2004 \| Essay \| The Madrassa and the State of Pakistan
		The madrassas of Pakistan are said to be the breeding ground for much of South and Central Asian militancy, but for the accusations made there is precious little known about these Islamic seminaries and their students.
		Madrassas have come to be associated with the erstwhile Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, some of whom were students of these institutions.
		The madrassas became militant when they were used by the Pakistani state to fight in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and subsequently in Kashmir so as to force India to leave the region.
	www.himalmag.com /2004/february/essay.htm (6519 words)

	Madrassa train women in IT skills
		Madrassas have remained the preserve of men, but this one has broken new ground.
		The madrassa located in Seelampur is a high density, low-income area.
		The madrassa was not only a place of prayer but also of learning.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/jun/27it.htm (426 words)

	INTEL DUMP - Deconstructing -- and reconstructing -- "The Madrassa Myth"
		The madrassas system must be reformed since it is clear that it fails to provide the advanced education needed to stabilize these societies.
		The madrassas are important to us on a security level because they may be the source of future Taliban-style movements, which can provide safe havens to the professional terrorists of al Qaeda.
		It is a very short jump from that to the disdain of madrassa graduates for these qualities, thence to the enforcement of that disdain in their region of Pakistan, and finally to the creating in that region of safe havens for Islamist terrorists.
	inteldump.powerblogs.com /posts/1118782373.shtml (3004 words)

	moodlogic
		Madrassa sector is in dire need of reform, no doubt about that.
		Secondly, it is simply untrue that Madrassa students "cannot even read or write properly in their own mother tongue Bengali let alone English." I have friends and relatives in Madrassa and they can read and write in four languages: Bangla, English, Arabic, and Urdu.
		Your points are correct and I absolutely agree with them but you can't deny that lack of control in Madrassa sector layed the way for the fanatics to exert their extreme views.
	moodlogic.blogspot.com /2004/09/problem-with-madrasa.html (1292 words)

	Madrassa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The word madrassa in the Arabic language means "school." The word can also appear transliterated as madrasa, as madrash, or as madressa.
		Like the English word school, madrassa is not used to refer to a university.
		Some have accused extremist madrassas and "Deobandi seminaries" of fostering the Taliban's reactionary policies during its rule in Afghanistan.
	www.the-law-directory.com /articles/Madrassa.html (356 words)

	::: TARGET: JIHAD, MADRASSA OR ISLAM? :::
		It is a grand misconception that eradicating the existing nature of madrassa would eradicate the spirit of Jihad.
		Apart from the fact that madrassa are not military training centers, those who understand the ground reality know that a single sitting before CNN, BBC or an hour of browsing American news media outlets on internet rekindles the spirit of Jihad more than staying for years in an isolated madrassa.
		Madrassa do not play "supporting role" of recruiting grounds for "Jihadis," while occupied land of Palestine and Afghanistan, however, certainly do.
	www.muslimuzbekistan.com /eng/islam/2002/09/a09092002.html (2271 words)

	Mehru Jaffer -- Madrassa - Islamic School, Writer -- IndoIndians.com
		During enlightened times the concept of a madrassa as an institution remained separate from the mosque, and the school was expected to supply state administrators and judges to society.
		The great madrassa of al-Azhar was next to the bazaar and religious leaders and students were constantly in touch with both rulers and the people.
		Bukhara boasted three great madrassas in the 16th century, a fourth in the 17th century and in the 1790s there were 30,000 students giving to the place an atmosphere of a great university city with few equals in the world.
	www.indoindians.com /writer/madrasa.htm (691 words)

	Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
		There is suspicion of the schools in India, with some scholars and experts focusing on the supposed dubious role of madrassas, which they believe produce young people indoctrinated in Islamic studies that are of no help in meeting the demands of the modern world.
		The most high-profile instance is of well-known cricketer Irfan Pathan, son of a poor preacher in a mosque in Gujarat, the state in which more than 2,000 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in one of the worst Hindu-Muslim pogroms.
		Another madrassa student, who has preferred to remain anonymous due to the nature of his job, is an officer in the Indian Administrative Service, the top government cadre.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/GI02Df01.html (1398 words)

	From Madrassa to Martyr. Can we stop it? - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		The madrassa is one of the reasons why we have so many willing to die.
		These madrassas are adding fuel to a steadily burning fire in the middle east.
		We have all had our own madrassa, but the fact that we are here in this forum means that we have the ability to see past "what we are told" and get a glimpse of truth.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread135753/pg (1250 words)

	Madrassa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is similiar to a parochial school[?] or a yeshiva, where the purpose is to teach children about the religion of Islam.
		There are an estimated 10,000 Madrassas in Pakistan.
		Some accused extremist madrassas and "Deobandi seminaries" of forming the Taliban's reactionary policies.
	www.explainthis.info /ma/madrassa.html (325 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| British diplomat visits madrassa
		Madrassas in Pakistan are seeking the West's support against the latest crackdown by President Musharraf.
		The move is being billed as a major charm offensive by the madrassas following General Musharraf's recent attempts to increase regulation of their affairs.
		Madrassa leaders are particularly upset at the government's decision to expel foreign students studying at Pakistani seminaries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/4135004.stm (404 words)

	Madrassa - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A madrassa is a college where Islam is the basis of teachings, and training in ethics.
		Although there are people described as radical clerics often involved in running them, usually because they have more influence there than in a mosque, it is not really possible to link all madrassas to a common "conspiracy", as some efforts and lawsuits seek to do.
		In fact, the United States funded much of the most extreme indoctrinication via madrassas as part of its support for the Afghan mujehadeen after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Taliban (664 words)

	Search: madrassa - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many of the Taliban were educated in Saudi-financed madrassas in Pakistan that teach Wahhabism, a particularly austere and rigid form of Islam which is rooted in Saudi Arabia.
		madrassa (in Arabic) means "school." It is often transliterated in the media as madrasah, madrash, or madressa.
		Madrassa in south Kashmir's Islamabad district, who was killed...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_EUFT1704IHHGFE__info.foxnws/search/web/madrassa (466 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Bergen: The Madrassa Myth
		What I think the article and Spencer both missed is the madrassas' (or somebody's) role in all of those Pakistani freaks who are always forming mobs and burning people in effigy, screaming bloody murder against the US for no legitimate reason.
		I suspect that in the future, any of us who go to a quiet, normalized Pakistan may well find that the kebab seller, janitor, and similar sorts are madrassa-educated, and their number one priority won't be killing the kaffir customer, but providing the daughter's dowry or seeing to a better education for the son.
		In Indian Madrassa to which i've been to, children as young as 9 we preparing posters for demonstration of solidarity with their Palestinian "brothers" but them seem to forget that their own Kashmiri Pandit compatriots have been forcibly evicted from a land in which they've dwelt for over 3000 yrs.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/006648.php (5618 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Madrassa foreigners 'must leave'
		Madrassas have been in the spotlight after one of the London bombers was reported to have studied at one.
		He also told journalists that action would be taken against any of the madrassas that did not register with the authorities.
		In a recent visit to a Lahore madrassa, our correspondent Aamer Ahmed Khan found foreign students visibly uncomfortable with the links being drawn by the media between terrorism and religious education.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/south_asia/4728643.stm (487 words)

	Professor Asim Khwaja Kennedy School Insight
		Outside this region madrassa enrollment is thinly, but evenly, spread across the rest of the country.
		It increased somewhat during the religion-based resistance to the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets in 1979 and the subsequent rise of the Taliban.
		In fact, if the choice of a madrassa or private school does provide information about the ideology of the household, the data suggests that the choice of a private school is more ideologically driven than the choice of a madrassa.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgnews/KSGInsight/khwaja.htm (1406 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : U-turn at JNU over madrassa admissions
		Describing the move as unacceptable, the JNU Students' Union has already written to the Vice-Chancellor demanding that the new system be withdrawn as it was in complete contradiction to the policy followed by the University in the past.
		Though the problem is not new for madrassa students, JNU has always had a far more friendly admission process for them, with the University enrolling at least 100 such students every year in Arabic, Persian and other languages.
		The certificates of a number of small madrassas are apparently not recognised as equivalent to Class XII by the Association of Indian Universities.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/23/stories/2005072312600100.htm (637 words)

	Miss Mabrouk of Egypt: Madrassa Abuse
		The madrassas have ties to influential religious and political groups.
		The core of madrassa funding is a tour of powerful networks: government aid, Saudi donations and zakat, the traditional Islamic practice of giving alms.
		A former official in Benazir Bhutto's govt said sexual abuse in madrassas was rampant.
	missmabrouk.blogspot.com /2005/09/madrassa-abuse.html (588 words)

	Ilm by Rote
		With close to a thousand madrassas across the country, an overwhelming number of Muslim children in Britain are receiving a strong Islamic education in their evening schools.
		With close to a thousand madrassas effectively across Britain, Muslim leaders say the overwhelming majority of Muslim children in Britain are receiving a strong education within the madrassa system.
		What they are learning at madrassas will not help them in school results or in their careers." On the contrary, the influence of madrassas shows through at day school.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=6126 (1885 words)

	Madrassa certificates not valid: Pakistan Supreme Court:- - Asia News - Webindia123.com
		Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that sanads (certificates) issued by madrassas are not valid as these institutions are run without statutory sanction and without affiliation to a recognised university or education board.
		In a detailed judgment released Monday, the court said madrassas, or seminaries, are not providing students with general education that could enable them to come into the mainstream of society and compete with the educated class for employment or other purposes.
		The court had Aug 16 directed the Election Commission to withhold the results of all nazims (administrators) and naib nazims (deputy administrators) who contested the just-concluded union council election on the basis of sanads issued by religious schools not recognised by the government.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=111586&cat=Asia (355 words)

	frontline: in search of al qaeda: producers' dispatches from the front \| PBS
		On the Grand Trunk Road that leads to Peshawar, there is a renowned religious school, or madrassa, where young boys from places like Dir, Bannu, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar come for a course of study that has only one textbook, the Quran.
		The Haqqania Madrassa's reputation has extended far beyond Pakistan, and I am told that young Muslim boys from places like Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan come this far to study the word of God delivered by the Prophet Muhammad.
		Gauging by the number of madrassas that line the roads of the most remote towns, it seems that a fair amount of Pakistani boys must be able to recite chapter and verse of the Quran.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/behind/27.html (840 words)

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