[lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/20/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> The Times (London) - January 20, 2007
>
> Obama 'was educated in madrassa'
> Tim Reid and Tom Baldwin in Washington
<snip>
> The online article begins: "Are the American people ready for an
> elected president who was educated in a madrassa as a young boy and
> has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?" It continues:
> "This is the question Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp is asking
> about Senator Barack Obama."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasah>
What is a Madrasah?

The word "madrasah" also exists in many Arabic-influenced languages
such as Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Indonesian, Malaysian
and Bosnian. In the Arabic language, the word مدرسة implies no sense
other than that which the word school represents in the English
language, such as private, public or parochial school, as well as for
any primary or secondary school whether Muslim, non-Muslim or secular.
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Yoshie
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