More indication of where Pakistan really stands. "Govt reluctant to expel foreign madrassa students," from the Daily Times, with thanks to Nicolei:
KARACHI: The provincial home department has been asked to wait for sometime in carrying out its plans to expel hundreds of foreign students enrolled with the seminaries in Sindh, sources in the government told Daily Times.The home department had initially issued notices to most of the Islamic seminaries asking them to expel all the foreign students enrolled with them and surrender their passports to make arrangements for their deportation.
Senior officials in the Sindh home department said they had originally planned to get all the foreign students, including girls, expelled from the seminaries by the end of last year and start repatriating them to their native countries. For this, sources said, the government had negotiated with Edhi Foundation and some other charities to arrange temporary lodgings for these students.
“These students were to be lodged at those temporary abodes until their final deportation but the seminary administrations totally refused to hand them over to us,” said an official. Sources said Wafaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia, the largest among the five religious education boards that form a confederacy called Ittehad Tanzeematul Madaris-e-Deeniya Pakistan (ITMDP), had made it clear to the senior authorities in Islamabad that any attempt to expel foreign students forcibly could create a huge law and order situation in the country.
“Such an attempt could enrage the rest of our students, which would make it far difficult for us to control them effectively,” said a leader in the Wafaq. Sources said the provincial home department had got instructions from Islamabad asking them to defer its plans of expulsions for quite some time until the authorities had some negotiations with the ITMDP.
Sure. As if they're controlling them effectively now.
Lol.
I try to imagine a Christian Seminary where, if the policies were changed "we wouldn't be able to control them effectively."
Those rambunctious seminary students are always pulling out the long knives everytime the administration tries to change the lunch menu....
One of you board members - could you write or find an article on the schedule of the day in an elite madrassa? What are the names and content of the courses? Is there any combat/jihad training? There must be an apostate member of one of these schools to interview in great detail. And I don't mean some desert camp, I mean the most prestigious schools.
Maybe its because the students would find it hard to replace these wonderful classes except maybe in saudi arabia or indonesia...
Classes like
Chemical Weapons testing 101
Bomb making 201
Sucide vest engineering 202 (201 is a pre-requisit)
Sniper school
Hostage taking 301
Aircraft hijacking 302
Using women and children as hostages 303
By special invitation only
Bin laden teaches how to fly aircraft into buildings
Zarchowi class is the most anticipated...
How to be-head civilians in a Halal butcher shop.
Each student gets his own rusty knife..
And there will be a live be-heading in front of the class ...
(the victim) err volenteer..
is a poor teacher who was caught
for the crime of Teaching Girls to read...
You forgot "addressing the root causes" -- that's another favorite phrase of the apologists for terror.
Those madrassas are never going to be cleared of foreign students, and the international indoctrination campaign is never going to be shut down. The next time their excuse for delaying will be "but you didn't say Simon Says"
After 7/7 the Pakistanis made emphatic commitments to purge out foreign students from these indoctrination factories. But because the Pakistani govt are bald-faced liars, their intent was never to do anything other than offer up fake promises to deflect all the international outrage against them at the time. As soon as the immediate heat was off, they've simply receded from their promises.
The Muslim Council of Britain, the country's main Islamic umbrella group, has decided to boycott the National Holocaust Day for the second year running saying that the January 26 event was not "sufficiently inclusive."
"The MCB would be honoured to participate in a national memorial day providing that it clearly affirmed that the lives of all people, regardless of race or religion, are to be valued equally," a spokesman for the organisation said.
"This is why the Muslim Council has consistently called for a genocide memorial day," he said.
The Council, considered to be the main representative body for Muslims, caused controversy when it declined to take part in last year's national event which marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Stephen Smith, the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said, "Holocaust Memorial Day has always been an inclusive event. That is why, from its first year, survivors from Bosnia, Rwanda and the holocaust have come together: Jews, Muslims and Christians, as well as non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust."
He said, "Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity for all communities and faiths to learn from a salutary past and expose all forms of racism - including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism - xenophobia, discrimination and bigotry."
How can I start a new thred in JW ?