Posted on 06/13/2005 10:35:35 PM PDT by Constitutionalist_by_birth
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. Last year, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell denounced madrassas in Pakistan and several other countries as breeding grounds for "fundamentalists and terrorists." A year earlier, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld had queried in a leaked memorandum, "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?" Skip to next paragraph Readers Forum: Op-Ed Contributors
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. Indeed, there is little or no evidence that madrassas produce terrorists capable of attacking the West. And as a matter of national security, the United States doesn't need to worry about Muslim fundamentalists with whom we may disagree, but about terrorists who want to attack us.
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I mean, they're really good for our cause!
sarcasm hopefully apparent.
More pages to line the birdcage from the useful idiots at the NYT.
The NYTimes marches on in its never-ending "non-biased" reporting--Gitmo should be closed; We're losing in Iraq; Terrorists? We don't see no stinkin' terrorists in Madrasses!
Madrassas are actually a great place to send your kid if you want him to grow up well rounded and adjusted to the 21st century world around him.
These people at the NYTimes are really something.
I love these posts--I just let my tagline do the talkin'. :D
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. Indeed, there is little or no evidence that madrassas produce terrorists capable of attacking the West. And as a matter of national security, the United States doesn't need to worry about Muslim fundamentalists with whom we may disagree, but about terrorists who want to attack us.
Weaselspeak!
They may not teach the mechanics, but they instill the ideology.
I used to listen to the BBC World Service on short wave during the time of the Afghan civil war which occurred after the Soviets left.
The Taleban were invariably euphemized as "Taleban, the Afghan student movement", as though they were some kind of college fraternity.
No they don't. But do they turn out fanatical Muslims, who are psychologically prepared to be terrorists, with a little postgraduate work? Alas, we don't know that from this article, because the Times doesn't find that point worthy of consideration.
Congressman Billybob
The reporter is correct: those particular skills are taught in the "post-graduate" programs held at special camps in remote locations of Pakistan, Iran, etc. (as well as pre-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan). The madrassas teach the prerequisite hate necessary for advancement in those places of "higher education".
Madrasas, mosques muslims, ..... equal the enemy.
1 - NYT's reporter Durante - Russian turncoat
2 - Jayson Blair & Howell Raines
3 - Friday, June 3, 2005 at 03:51JST
BEIJING — A New York Times researcher arrested last year on charges of leaking state secrets was recently indicted on the same charges, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Credibility?
Great tagline!
What a bunch of idiocy. They assume that knowing the mechanics of terrorism is more important than instilling terrorist ideology when it comes to making terrorists and they could not be more wrong. I'd bet that there are a great many people on this very website that have the knowledge to be better terrorists than anything OBL ever turned out, but they don't have the ideology of militant hatred instilled in them and that's the key element you need to be a terrorist. A terrorist doesn't have to be an evil genius or even a very good soldier, but he does have to have a motivating rage and a rock solid faith in his cause and that's what the madrassas specialize in teaching.
Savage reported tonight that a Saudi was the second largest shareholder of Fox News. He wondered just how much Saudi and Islamic money was behind some of the other major, excuse me anti-American, press.
How many "technical and liguistic skills" does it take to drive a car loaded with explosives? Anyway, leave the Madrassas open. CLOSE THE MOSQUES!
And the Hitler Youth didn't teach German kids to fly bombers. So what?
When that dope reporter asked if the White House thought the press' job was to write positive stories about the military the response should have been "And take time out from your busy anti-American propaganda schedule? Heaven forbid!"
And the relevance of that is...?? Do they think that we are raising little terrorist in our homes here in the good old USA? And it took two people to write this idiocy.
And yet, they never put out a coherent argument for this--they just refer to "abuses" or whatever. These "abuses" seem to boil down to that we buy oil from the Middle East, but the "little people" never enjoy the profits.
And yet, according to the NYT, the US can't get involved in creating democracies over there so these people would have a chance to run their lives and determine what happens to those natural resources.
The envirokooks who run the MSM seem to think that if we'd just stop buying Middle Eastern oil, this would all somehow work out and the MEasterners would no longer hate us.
Or something.
But whatever you say, the Middle East is in NO WAY responsible for creating terrorists in the Middle East, that's all America's fault...somehow...
I'm starting to think the MSM don't quite have the logic of their anti-war on terror position worked out.
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