Great idea, Karzai! (What made you think of it? Have you by any chance been reading Jihad Watch?) But one question: how will you prevent those who take your advice from being branded as apostates by the authors and supporters of these “hate texts,” who can quote Qur’an and Sunnah to support their positions? This is a serious question, for such intimidation stymies Muslim reformers everywhere.
From the Herald Sun, :
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has urged the world to put an end to Islamic schools that teach hatred and produce suicide bombers.
Madrassas, or Islamic schools, are “teaching hatred rather than religion, (teaching) that some people we must hate, that some people we must destroy,” Mr Karzai said on the eve of summits with the US and Pakistan.
He said it “will take a lot of sacrifice from Afghans, and from the rest of the world . . . to get rid of those places who . . . in the name of religious schools . . . are actually training suicide bombers against us”.
Mr Karzai also said neighbouring Pakistan must find the political will to eliminate terrorist breeding grounds if Afghanistan is to know peace. He said other nations had to pressure them to do so.
“We have to convince them that it is not in their interest, that it is going to hurt all of us eventually,” he was quoted as saying.