Word: madrasahs
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...heads the Southeast Asia office of the think tank International Crisis Group, says that it's critical to understand how "like-minded jihadis from other parts of the world" are forging ties with each other. Jones stresses the role played in such contact by Pakistan's Islamic schools, or madrasahs. Khan is said to have visited a madrasah in Pakistan less than a year...
...rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with the youth. After the abused student staggered back to the madrasah, Omar swore revenge and his movement quickly swept away the criminal warlords...
...explosive device hidden in an old cement sack. He planted his bomb by the road, primed to go off just as a U.S. convoy came rumbling past. The bomber must have thought he was on home turf. His chosen site was just a kilometer or so away from the madrasah where a one-eyed cleric named Mullah Mohammed Omar launched a movement of young religious zealots in 1994. Within two years the Taliban controlled nearly all of Afghanistan, and Omar had forged an alliance with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda forces. But the bomber chose the wrong place...
...Taliban made many enemies. But even in Omar's village of Singesar, locals say they have been trying to persuade Taliban relatives to return home, now that the rains have come and planting season is underway. A nomad preacher has set up a small school in Omar's deserted madrasah, and girls are being taught there-unthinkable when Omar ran the place. Some villagers are now embarrassed by their link to Omar. Says a driver in the bazaar, "Truth is, Omar wasn't really one of us." Abdul Azzaq, a local judge, says "We're no longer afraid...
...group of Islamic radicals associated with Hambali botched a bank robbery in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two of them were killed, and one was captured. Astonished Malaysian police began piecing together the world of militant Islam. More raids and arrests followed, and these led police to the Sungei Tiram madrasah, which was shut down...