Why is it that the teachers in this seminary seem to miss all the peaceful teachings of the Qur’an and Islam in general that are so crystal clear and obvious to non-Muslims such as Pope Francis, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, John Kerry, et al? Will any of these leaders or others like them travel to the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in order to explain to the teachers and students how they’re misunderstanding their peaceful religion?
“‘We are proud’: Pakistan’s ‘university of jihad’ lauds Taliban alumni,” AFP, November 16, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
AKORA KHATTAK: Maulana Yousaf Shah cracks a wide smile as he rattles off a list of former students turned Taliban leaders, revelling in their victories over superpowers on Afghanistan’s battlefields after graduating from Pakistan’s “university of jihad”.
The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary has churned out a who’s who of Taliban top brass – including many now on the hardline group’s negotiating team holding talks with the Kabul government to end a 20-year war.
“Russia was broken into pieces by the students and graduates of Darul Uloom Haqqania and America was also sent packing,” beamed Shah, an influential cleric at the seminary that critics have dubbed the “university of jihad”.
“We are proud.”
The sprawling campus in Pakistan’s Akora Khattak, about 60km east of Peshawar, is home to roughly 4,000 students who are fed, clothed and educated for free.
It has sat at the crossroads of regional militant violence for years, educating many Pakistanis and Afghan refugees – some of whom returned home to wage war against the Russians and Americans or preach jihad.
Despite its infamy in some quarters, it has enjoyed state support in Pakistan, where mainstream political parties are heavily boosted by links with religious factions.
This month, Darul Uloom Haqqania’s leaders boasted of backing the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan in a video posted online – outraging the Kabul government, which is battling a surge in violence across the county as the US prepares to withdraw troops.
Seminaries like Haqqania “give birth to radical jihadism, produce Taliban and are threatening our country”, Sediq Sediqqi, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman, told AFP, demanding their closure….
‘Father of the Taliban’
The seminary’s late leader Sami-ul-Haq boasted of advising the Taliban’s founder Mullah Omar – earning him the moniker “the father of the Taliban”.
Haq later sent students to fight for the movement when it issued a call to arms during its rise to power in the 1990s.
The Haqqani network, the Taliban’s ultra-violent faction, is named after the madrassa where its leader once taught and subsequent leaders studied….
Semple however dismissed notions the madrassa served as a “terrorist factory” where students received combat training or had a hand in militant groups’ strategic decisions….
Graduates insisted they received no military training at Haqqania and were not obliged to join the fight in Afghanistan, but admitted jihad was discussed openly, including in “special lectures” by Afghan instructors.
“Any student who wanted to go for jihad could go during his vacations,” said cleric Sardar Ali Haqqani, who graduated from the seminary in 2009….
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has also lavished the Haqqania seminary with millions of dollars in return for its political support….
“Will they become (clerics) or will they become terrorists?” asked Pakistan military chief Qamar Javed Bajwa in 2017 of the estimated 2.5 million students enrolled at the tens of thousands of madrassas across Pakistan….
Mural says
Jews can boast about the number of Nobel laureates. Indians can brag about the number of top tech CEO’s of Indian origin.
Now, we have people from the ‘Pure land’ – Pakistan who brag about this?
Fred van de Bunt says
Brag about a couple of Taliban guys with antique weapons riding on donkeys in mountains, that beat the best armies in the world, equipped with the best high tech in the world, developed by the best Jewish Nobel laureates and managed by the best Indian CEO’s known.
Mural says
. The best armies in the world can wipe off Afghanistan from the map of the world.
Only basic human decency prevents that. Something that Taliban sorely lack.
And you are quite ignorant. As you totally missed the gist of my post. Either you are a leftist or an Islamist or a ignoramus.
Fred van de Bunt says
Did I hurt you in your safe space?
Mural says
You need the safe space you dumb moron.
Sylvia Drummond says
Mural – whores for allah
Mural says
Hiding behind.a Dutch name, too!
Michael Copeland says
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Churchill
John says
Flatten the place and places like it. That’s a start to solving the problem.
Keith O says
This article gives a very good incite into how Islamist extremists seem to proliferate like weeds in Pakistan.
When their government openly funds universities who’s entire focus is to churn out terrorists, well, no wonder this part of the world is such a shit hole.
Don’t teach students how to bring progress to the country, just teach them how to keep everyone in the stone ages through the use of violence and fear.
And we wonder why western countries have a spreading problem?
gravenimage says
Pakistan: State-supported Islamic seminary boasts of how many jihad terrorists are among its alumni
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God, I hate Islam.