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2004-11-23 Afghanistan/South Asia

Saudis plan to expand madrassa system in South Asia

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-11-23 1:35:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Saudis promoting modern and liberal education. Thats the day's best laugh!

Posted by phil_b 2004-11-23 2:20:34 AM|| 2004-11-23 2:20:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Good one, Phil - very rich pickings, eh?

Paul - You're really on a roll tonight - trolling the weirder waters (atimes? lol!), bro! I love this bit:
"the more orthodox variety of Sunni theology, known as Wahhabism"

and this one:
"The House of Saud sees the setting up of madrassas as an exercise to correct the distorted worldwide image of Islam."

I spewed Dr Pepper all over reading those, lol!

I figure you have a PhD in Maintaining an Even Strain, but the real question is, Are you able to keep a straight face when you hit the "Accept" button, lol??!! Just wanna make sure you're still uninfected, heh. Thx!

Posted by .com 2004-11-23 2:40:06 AM|| 2004-11-23 2:40:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh great,35,ooo new mad dog killer factories.Just what the world needs.

Posted by raptor 2004-11-23 6:04:59 AM|| 2004-11-23 6:04:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's becoming abundantly clear that something has to be done about the Saudis. We've seen where exporting their own troubles have got us in the past. I can only hope that once GW has sortede out the Iranians that all attention is then focussed on the Oil Ticks.

Mind you, I'll not let that get me down - it's been a *great, nay sooperb!* November, and there's still a week left! :)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-11-23 7:30:22 AM|| 2004-11-23 7:30:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope Dr. Rice has a litle discussion with the Princes real soon. Talk to them in a way they understand.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-23 9:16:38 AM|| 2004-11-23 9:16:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The "seethe quotient" in India just went up 10%, and they haven't even begun construction yet...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-23 9:45:18 AM|| 2004-11-23 9:45:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Why do these idiots want to spread more wahabbism around when it's those same madrassa grads who will toss the princes on the dung heap of history? You'd think they would've learned by now that in the kingdom is one thing, but outside the kngdom is another. It's lip service guys, not cash.

Posted by Spot 2004-11-23 10:54:42 AM|| 2004-11-23 10:54:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Their lips fell off years ago. All they have left is cash.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-23 10:57:23 AM|| 2004-11-23 10:57:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Taliban - check.
Q-man - check.
Saddam - check.
Moo-lahs - coming up.
House o Cards/Saud - ?

Posted by lex 2004-11-23 11:01:42 AM|| 2004-11-23 11:01:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I read somewhere that 80% of the mosques constructed in the US are financed by Saudis. The same sickness is here in the US. We will have to deal with it, too.

The HUGE transfer of wealth by the West to the Saudis is coming back with interest in the form of Terrorism and destruction of Western values. It really comes down to money. Saudi Arabian princes are the West's Public Enemy No. 1, with Iran a close second.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-23 11:15:25 AM|| 2004-11-23 11:15:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 "modern and liberal education with Islamic values"

In other words they're expanding the system to teach modern bomb-making skills in conjunction with the Koran. Any child sent into the system should be required to have "TERRORIST" tattooed across their forehead. Yes, 5 or 6 of the 35,000 won't turn out to actually BE terrorists...but I say we err on the side of caution!

Posted by Justrand 2004-11-23 11:37:27 AM|| 2004-11-23 11:37:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 "The House of Saud sees the setting up of madrassas as an exercise to correct the distorted worldwide image of Islam."

Typical distorted viewpoints:

Islam is a Religion of Peace.
Islam is tolerant.
Islam is compatible with Democracy.

Posted by jackal 2004-11-23 6:07:45 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-11-23 6:07:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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