what snakes and their nests? do you understand this country at all and how the madrassahs have helped this country also. Learn to not be blinded by hate and look at the positives and the negatives.
. For example, whereas 60 percent of Madrasah students supported all out war to take the disputed Kashmir region, 40 percent of students from Pakistan’s Urdu-medium public schools, and 26 percent of students in private schools, held the same view. Similarly, when students were asked whether they supported taking Kashmir through the use of jihadist proxies: 53 percent of Madrasah students shared this view, compared to 33 percent of those in public schools and 22 percent in private schools. While the Madrasah students show consistently higher support for war and use of Jihadist proxies, public school students, who comprise some 70 percent of the educational market, displayed levels of support for the same policies. Given this data, it is fair to say that Madrassas show support for Jihad in Kashmir, as do those in public and private schools- so if Madrassas are to be witch hunted for this by the media, surely the same must be done for public and private schools? But on the point of whether Madrassas support, encourage, prepare or perpetuate indiscriminate terrorist attacks, such as the thousands Pakistan has seen post 2001, there is no data or study to prove this, raising the question as to why then the media is pushing this narrative without proof.
With regards to sectarian violence -‘Radds’ (Refutations) and ‘Munazarrats’ (Debates) have been part of religious education throughout the centuries, with Muslim scholars taking on the Greek philosophers and those influenced by their thoughts, leading to the development of Ilm ul Kalam (Scholastic Theology). Even if we were to look to the subcontinent’s history, we will realize the high level of ‘Radds’ and ‘Munazarrats’ between the Deoband and Braweli school of thoughts, such as the very bitter 1928 ‘Munazarrats’ between the two and Ahmad Raza Khan, was well known for his constant refutations of the Deodand, Ahle-Hadith and Shia. Yes, there is no doubt these refutations raised sectarian tensions between Brawelis and others, leading to blows but never did it lead to indiscriminate bombings and killings between them as Pakistan has experienced. This point is mentioned by Professor Rahman in his paper ‘Madrassas: The potential for violence in Pakistan’ and he adds that although it may be true to say that the Madrassas have contributed to creating an atmosphere of sectarianism, to conclude from this that this leads to violence would be a step too far. He mentions that other factors would need to be taken into consideration, such as foreign policy issues; for example the support of Hezbollah to the Bashar Assad regime has contributed to the flaring of tensions between the Sunni and Shia groupings in Pakistan and the petro dollars of the Saudis have contributed to increased rifts between Sunnis and Shias in Pakistan. Dr Fair in her paper, ‘The Enduring Madrasah Myth,’ reinforces the point that sectarianism does not inevitably lead to violence but this depends on externalities that can act as catalysts to violence between religious groups depending on external strategic interests and objectives.
Are Madrassas to blame?
learn to look beyond the rhetoric and look at problems maturely
you act just as extreme as those people... What would the punishment for those comments be then? if you decide who dies and even if guilty whose Innocent children die you should be ready to judged the same... Go read what you wrote and edit it to look mature...
