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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Asymmetric11/15/2015 11:17:17 AM
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"Those interpretations of Islam (Wahhabism) are being propagated out of schools that receive organizational
and financial funding from Saudi Arabia. In fact, I would push it further: that these schools would not have
existed without Saudi funding. They would not have proliferated across Pakistan and India and Afghanistan
without Saudi funding. They would not have had the kind of prowess that they have without Saudi funding,
and they would not have trained as many people without Saudi funding."

Who goes to these madrassas?

"They are recruited from among the lower classes and lower-middle classes.

" In the Afghan-Pakistan arena, there are members of Pashtun tribes who enroll in these madrassas. There are
peasant children from the peasant backgrounds. And occasionally there are also lower middle-class children
they are very able to recruit among people in Pakistan particularly who don't have any access to any other
kind of schooling. ...

That's why the ideology that's propagated by these schools is so significant in shaping minds in the Muslim
world. So if regular schooling is not schooling people, and schools that propagate fanaticism are schooling
people, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what would be the impact on society."

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