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The Thai government is planning to run Islamic schools in the country's southern regions, in order to try to stamp out the radicalism and terrorism that is coming from existing Islamic schools there.
But will Muslims accept these state-run schools? Who will determine their curricula? What will they teach about the Qur'an? Somehow I suspect this enterprise is doomed to fail.
From AFP, with thanks to Nicolei:
BANGKOK - The Thai government announced yesterday that it planned to set up state-run Islamic schools to try to stem separatist violence that has left more than 310 people dead this year.The government has accused a small group of Islamic teachers at privately run traditional schools in the Muslim-majority south of stoking violence.
'Teachers brainwash hardliners to keep up the violence in the south,' said government spokesman Jakrapob Penkair.
He said the government would consult religious leaders in the south about the idea of setting up government-run religious schools, adding that the schools would be of a 'high standard and closely supervised by the Education Ministry'.
Posted by Robert at September 29, 2004 8:08 AM
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No government should give in to muslims, making special schools, changing laws to suit them, what kind of upside down world is this when the forces of darkness are given special privelidges over everyone else???
Why is everyone so fooled by islam, is it not obvious what a foul cult it is; when almost every conflict in the world is a direct result of these social-termites.
Burn the Koran.
Posted by: Rikki![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 29, 2004 8:18 AM
Buddhism is a classic example of a truely peaceful religion, what a shame that it is yet another victim of islamic invasion (don't know much about the history of Thailand , but I'm almost sure it's always been a buddhist country, muslims invaded later).
Put the 2 religions next to each other and examine them:
Result?
Ones a religion of peace, the others a satanic virus!!!
Posted by: Rikki at September 29, 2004 9:41 AM
What parts of the Qur'an will be left out? Which hadith? What is it about the life of Muhammad that it would be unwise to commmunicate to impressionable young minds? Without Jihad, without "the Other" (Edward Said's favorite topic, except that he kept talking about the need of the West to create the Islamic "Other" when, in fact, the Original, the Ur, the Other of All Others, was that created by Islam to sustain Believers: the Other is the Infidel, who must be hated no matter what good he "appears" to do, what kindness he "appears" to offer -- as those hapless American soldiers in Iraq wondering why everyone wishes to kill them as they build schools, hospitals, electricity grids, roads) what, in Islam, is left? Five daily prayers, zakat or charity but only for fellow Muslims (never for one's fellow man), Ramadan, hajj, and the shehada. That's it. That we, the Infidels, can live with. But can Islam?
Posted by: Hugh at September 29, 2004 10:21 AM
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