Word: madrassas
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...other a friend, or even an ally. Karzai accuses Pakistan of enabling the massive Taliban resurgence inside Afghanistan - which has left his fledgling democratic administration unable to function as an effective government in much of the country. On Tuesday, he called on Musharraf to close the radical Islamic madrassa schools in Pakistan whose graduates are ready-made recruits for extremists. His charge that the Taliban insurgency works out of Pakistan is backed by NATO, which underestimated the scale of the challenge when it took over Afghan counterinsurgency duties from the U.S., but it is strenuously denied by Musharraf, who claims...
...some of the clerics apparently caught in the sting operation teach at important institutions - one belongs to India's most famous Islamic seminary, the Darul Uloom at Deoband. At least two of the clerics have been suspended from their posts, but that hasn't satisfied everyone. Students at one madrassa in north India denounced the clerics, and in the city of Meerut, where a mufti, or cleric, had been caught on camera, the congregation at one mosque refused to offer prayers until he came before them, admitted to taking the money, and apologized...
...other neighborhoods suffered. Just 30 minutes after my arrival, in a section of the city called Madrassa al-Daniyah, two Israeli bombs punched their way through the roof of a three-story home and turned the kitchen on the ground floor into a six-foot-deep crater. The bedrooms and the living room were shattered. We had heard the whistling zing of the falling bombs, but none of the journalists was sure what they were. Bombs? Outgoing Katyushas? Bombs, as it turns...
PINKER: Good grief, shouldn’t everything be within the pale of legitimate academic discourse, as long as it is presented with some degree of rigor? That’s the difference between a university and a madrassa...