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tonyz · 09-11-2015, 11:16

Ah, thank you Saudi Arabia...from that vast right-wing conspiracy think tank PBS...links and excerpt below.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...madrassas.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/

Saudi Time Bomb
Analysis Madrassas

A madrassa is an Islamic religious school. 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. Around the world, Saudi wealth and charities contributed to an explosive growth of madrassas during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets. During that war (1979-1989), a new kind of madrassa emerged in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region -- not so much concerned about scholarship as making war on infidels. The enemy then was the Soviet Union, today it's America. Here are analyses of the madrassas from interviews with Vali Nasr, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. (For more on the role of madrassas in producing militant Islamists, see the story of Haroun Fazul.)

09-11-2015, 11:16	#13
tonyz Area Commander Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,792	Ah, thank you Saudi Arabia...from that vast right-wing conspiracy think tank PBS...links and excerpt below. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...madrassas.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/ Saudi Time Bomb Analysis Madrassas A madrassa is an Islamic religious school. 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. Around the world, Saudi wealth and charities contributed to an explosive growth of madrassas during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets. During that war (1979-1989), a new kind of madrassa emerged in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region -- not so much concerned about scholarship as making war on infidels. The enemy then was the Soviet Union, today it's America. Here are analyses of the madrassas from interviews with Vali Nasr, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. (For more on the role of madrassas in producing militant Islamists, see the story of Haroun Fazul.) __________________ The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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