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2003-11-24 | |
EFL. Hat tip LGF Dec. 1 issue â Abdul Bariâs school day begins at 4 a.m. The freckle-faced, outgoing 9-year-old, an Afghan poppy farmerâs son, wakes up on the tile floor he shares with four dozen other students at the Jamia Uloom Islamia religious academy, in the untamed mountains of Pakistanâs tribal areas. After morning prayer services, he fixes tea for the older boys and himself, eating a bit of bread before classes start at daybreak. Students spend most of the day reciting the Qurâan; memorizing every one of its 6,666 verses is the main requirement for graduation. Still, this madrassa is the only formal schooling most of these boys will ever have. So they learn civics from a white-bearded scholar named Amanullah, 65, who teaches them about the Taliban. âThere was a real Islamic regime,â the old man says. âThey fixed 25 years of problems in no time, using Islamic laws.â 6666 verses, eh? Theyâre one on Nicolae Carpathia. ANOTHER FACULTY member, Mullah Taj Mohammad, 40, gives a current-events lesson, warning of the evils that lurk in non-Islamic lands: âIâve heard that many Muslim girls have infidel boyfriendsâand clink glasses of alcohol with Jews.â Thatâs not the worst of it, he says: âAmericans are killing Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they are busy trying to poison Muslim minds everywhere with films, music and television.â Abdul is an eager learner. He dreams of enlisting in the jihad against Afghanistanâs U.S.-backed president, Hamid Karzai. âKarzai is a killer of Muslims,â the boy says. âWhen I grow up Iâll fight him, and then weâll see whoâs a man and whoâs a woman.â
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