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India Plans Legislation to Curb Madrasahs, Mosques
Indiaâs federal government is planning legislation to curb madrasahs, mosques and other religious institutions, claiming such institutions are likely to be used for what it calls âsubversive activities.â The move is to be initiated following a long, but largely unconvincing, ... at least to Islamists... propaganda campaign by the anti-Muslim BJP-led government targeting madrasahs for unsubstantiated calumny. At a later stage, a vicious campaign against mosques too was included in the larger program. Has something to do with the eye-rolling, spittle-spewing mullahs calling for death to everybody around them. That, and the fact that so much Pak money's going into them... In his efforts to indict madrasahs, the federal Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani formed a âgroup of ministersâ headed by himself. In a report compiled by the committee, the group claimed that the exponential growth of madrasahs teaching âfundamentalist ideology is detrimental to the countryâs communal harmony.â You'd think that'd be self-evident, but... Indiaâs Muslim leadership has expressed dissatisfaction with the vague, slanderous tone of the report, which made insinuations without giving any proof against a single madrasah being âmisusedâ by agents of Pakistanâs Inter Service Intelligence (ISI). If you really, really try hard not to believe what's in front of your eyes, why, by Garlick, you won't believe it. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-06 |
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