>>Pakistan, said Peters, "suffers from a ravaged education system that opened the door for the pernicious expansion of fundamentalist schools but it still has not strayed irretrievably into the extremist camp. However, together with impoverished hard- luck Bangladesh, Pakistan remains the least promising of the region's states."<<
As I understand it, those fundamentalist schools are funded by the House of Saud to teach Wahhabism. This is part of the famous Saudi charity.
It seems to me that the USA, with all its material wealth, might want to consider setting up alternative schools, where impoverished Muslims can send their children (boys AND girls, ideally) to learn the REAL fundamentals - reading, writing and arithmetic. Connect them to the Internet as we do here in the USA.
Dirt cheap in the long run, considering the alternatives.
The schools would have to be staffed by Muslims, very brave Muslims, because they would be targeted by Islamists, I fear. |
