Now the liberal media is saying that madrassas pose no threat of terrorism.
The BBCs Barbara Plett takes the dubious honor of being quite possibly the stupidest reporter in England (given she is reporting from Pakistan now). Good thing for her we have Seymour Hersh to take the honor of dumbest reporter on earth. She blathers:
Pakistani madrassas are not all oases of Islamic study, some do promote sectarian hatred.
But neither are they factories producing international terrorists.
Mostly they are religious schools, whose role is viewed differently by East and West, as so much else is.
Well you stupid hack, here are some people who have reported from the madrassas in Pakistan and here is what they are saying:
Here, straddling the noisy, truck-thundering Islamabad highway, stands the Haqqania, one of the most radical of the religious schools called madrassas.
Many of the Taliban leaders, including Mullah Omar, were trained at this institution. If its teachings have been blamed for inspiring the brutal, ultra-conservative incarnation of Islamic law that that regime presided over, there is no sign that the Haqqania is ashamed of its former pupils: instead, the madrassa's director, Maulana Sami ul-Haq, still proudly boasts that whenever the Taliban put out a call for fighters, he would simply close down the madrassa and send his students off to fight.
Okay Barbara, you get that? The school administrator freaking admits he send fighters to the Taliban, the same group involved with 9/11.
A significant proportion of these are run by, or connected to, the radical Islamist political parties such as the MMM, which under Sami's vice presidency have just imposed a Taliban-like regime on Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, banning the public performance of music and depictions of the human form.
Except it's not Taliban "like", these guys are the remnants of the old and the new Taliban.
Across Pakistan, the tenor of religious belief has been correspondingly radicalized: the tolerant Sufi-minded Barelvi form of Islam is now deeply out of fashion in Pakistan, overtaken by the sudden rise of the more hardline and politicized reformist Deobandi, Wahhabi and Salafi strains of the faith.
Deobandi, Wahhabi and Salafi are Arabic terms for terrorist, terrorist, and terrorist respectively.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said a small portion of Pakistan's religious schools, called madrassas, are ``training grounds for terrorists'' and a serious threat to the world.
``There will not be an end to terrorism unless we remove the sources of hatred in madrassas,'' Karzai said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a policy study group in Washington.
Terrorism is not the unexpected result of Islam, but the direct result of what is being taught at madrassas, traditional schools. And not only because many schools give training in terrorism and guerrilla warfare, but mainly because they educate in fundamentalism. They depict religion as the solution to any problem and look at the world and the West in an intransigent and radical way, through which the only solution is jihad, the destruction of the West and all that seems to conspire against religion.
Note to Barbara and Peter Bergen while I am at it:
Stop trying to sound smarter than everybody else by taking an unconventional position when you are taking a position that is so easily proven to be completely false. For crying out loud, even the terrorists admit it.
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