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Pakistan: “The main focus of the education in the madrassahs is on Jihad”

Jul 17, 2017 10:13 am By Robert Spencer

The author, a reformist Muslim, writes: “The main focus of the education in the madrassahs is on Jihad, but the students are not told about the most significant type which is ‘struggle with oneself’, Jihad bin Nafs, rather the simple meaning of Jihad explained to the students is that of battles and wars.”

There is a reason for that: Jihad bin Nafs has much less of a presence in Islamic texts and teachings than jihad as warfare, whatever Linda Sarsour and apologists for Islam in the West may claim to the contrary. In any case, with Pakistani youth being primarily trained in jihad, and children in the West being primarily trained in tolerance, multiculturalism, relativism, and hatred of their own history and culture, what do you think the outcome will be?

“The old madrassa needs to be revived to free religious education from the clutches of extremists,” by Sajid Kamal, Dunya News, July 16, 2017:

In the contemporary world, the word ‘Madrassah’, undoubtedly, has been associated with terrorism, extremism, sectarianism and religious fundamentalism. The religious clerics, in Pakistan, received huge sums of funds from the United States and Saudi Arabia to build Madrassahs in the FATA region and across Pakistan, after the soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The tactical and strategic support to these Madrassahs and their students was provided by the ISI and CIA. Since 2001, the Madrassahs have been playing a huge role in the terrorist activities across Pakistan, and the ‘monster’ unleashed to have strategic gains, has been difficult to control. According to the Ministry of Education report of 2015, a large number of Madrassahs, roughly estimated 11,000, are either unregistered or unreported across the country. The students in these Madrassahs, mostly, are from a weak financial background. According to Zubeda Jalal, “Madrassas often crop up where there is little government and few private schools, and the poor can only afford madrassas in order to educate their children.”

The Madrassahs only impart education of pure theology and are unaware about the subjects of social and natural sciences. Even the teachers, on whom these students are depending, have no idea of the realities and complexities of the contemporary world. The main focus of the education in the madrassahs is on Jihad, but the students are not told about the most significant type which is ‘struggle with oneself’, Jihad bin Nafs, rather the simple meaning of Jihad explained to the students is that of battles and wars. The west or the United States are depicted as the cause of all the problems which the Muslim countries are facing in the current era, and the anti-West feelings are sown in the young and fertile hearts of the young students. In short, in the Madrassahs in Pakistan the students are not taught the subjects needed to not only to have good living but also to play a key role in the development of the society.

It is extremely important to know the instances where it all went wrong. The first instance can be traced back to the year 1866, when Darul Uloom Deoband was established on the ideology of Anti-Imperialist and Islamic revivalist. The solution of the problems of the Muslims of the Indo-Pak subcontinent was sought in the theological teachings of Islam and the modern education was called a trap by the British Raj to deviate the Muslims from their culture and religion. So, the focus was on the theological education rather than the modern education of the students. The seeds of contemporary Madrassah system were sown during that time, as the modern education of science was forbidden. The second instance is significantly the Afghan War, 1979, when a large number of Madrassahs were established with a special focus on the education of Jihad (Holy War). The policies of Pakistan during that time phase have been haunting the state and the society till date….

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  1. Jack says

    Jul 17, 2017 at 11:09 am

    Hi. They teach the same thing in Canadian madrasah. Talking from first hand experience. They all should be investigated and closed.

  2. Hari Singh says

    Jul 17, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    The Madrassah mentality pervades all Islamic societies. Pakistan was formed for fear of assimilation by the ”Hindu State” India. Islamic societies aim to establish Arab culture and the Islamic religion. They dress like the prophet, eat like the prophet, and even wash and have sex like the prophet, the ideal man.
    In Pakistan’s War college at Abbotbad, home of Bin Laden, just a few doors down mind they teach that the purpose of the Pakistan Army is Jihad with some hopefuls, aspiring to re-establish the Murderous Mughal empire in India.
    A noted Pakistan general wrote a book on Jihad and the Pakistan Army, use at the Pakistan War College.
    The Pakistan Army trains terrorists to infiltrate into Kashmir and kill Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists in an attempt gain independence, no doubt a repeat of Pakistan’s 1947 ethnic cleansing of Hindus Sikhs and Buddhists in an attempt to have a pure-”Pak” land ”Stan”.
    The kill the infidel philosophy of Pakistan is only intensified by the spread of madrassas, but has existed since the founding of Pakistan and the advent of Islam into the Indian sub-continent. The Pakistan Army is a terrorist supporting organization and we give them billions in arms which are used against India. The Pakistan Army only fights the Afghan Frontier Islamacists because they are a threat to the Islam of the state and have always been considered nothing more than bandits.

  3. Westman says

    Jul 17, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    “…with Pakistani youth being primarily trained in jihad, and children in the West being primarily trained in tolerance, multiculturalism, relativism, and hatred of their own history and culture, what do you think the outcome will be?”

    Most likely, three outcomes: More violent jihad countered by increasing opposition to Islam in the West, particularly in Europe, more persecution of non-Muslims and gays in Pakistan, and, an eventual nuclear war between Pakistan and India.

    The West, like it’s politicians, has historically taken the path of laissez-faire, leaning toward lazy-fare, until some breaking point is reached, such as Pearl Harbor or 9/11, after the threat and cost of action has greatly amplified. The reaction to 9/11 has faded into history – unseating the Taliban was replaced by an “insurgency” and Iraq was unwisely dismantled to the benefit of Iran. Will our seditious multiculturalists wake up before it’s too late? Yes, when the cost of inaction threatens their survival and others will pay the high cost.

    Islam is incompatible with both democracy and peace because it carries an “Allah-commanded” set of instructions for all aspects of living and a charge to forbid even non-Muslims to live outside Allah’s requirements. This inability to “live and let live” will be the death of apostates, gays, and infidels and a continual impetis toward warfare.

    The Madrassahs are creating the Allah-Borgs of tomorrow – eyes and ears that can only see or hear through the filter of Islam and minds which can only link with the collective hive-mind.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jul 17, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    Pakistan: “The main focus of the education in the madrassahs is on Jihad”
    ………………….

    God knows this is true.

  5. Chand says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 2:56 am

    The main sponsor of Pakistan is Saudi Arabia, which is pouring money to madarsas, schools, mosques, ‘charitable’ organizations and spreading the most intolerant brand of their official Sunni Salafi Wahabbism globally. Sunni extemists regularly massacre other Muslims in Pakistan too, like the Shias, Balochis, Ahmadiyas and minority religious communities.
    Yet it is an ‘ally’ of the Western powers in the war on terror. So go figure………….

  6. dani says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 6:18 am

    Pakistani soldiers supporting MONUSCO.
    See also: Pakistan and the United Nations
    “ ” Our foreign policy is one of friendliness and goodwill towards all the nations of the world. We believe in the principle of honesty and fair play in national and international dealings and are prepared to make our utmost contribution to the promotion of peace and prosperity among the nations of the world. Pakistan will never be found lacking in extending its material and moral support to the oppressed and suppressed peoples of the world and in upholding the principles of the United Nations Charter.” Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,

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