Meeting with the Mujahideen

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Fri Mar 7 08:25:39 PST 2003


The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January/February 2001

Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 42-51

Meeting with the Muj

By Jessica Stern

Pakistan has tens of thousands of madrisas. Often the students learn only the Koran. They will not be taught much math and probably no science or literature--or any other secular subject regarded in the West as important for functioning in modern society. Many of these schools preach jihad--holy war--with varying degrees of militancy. Pakistani officials estimate that 10 to 15 percent of the country's madrisas promote extremist ideologies

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