Actually many of these madrassa-educated "scholars"

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), Jul 8, 2008 at 19:50

basically are taught only selected portions of Koran--and naught else; on top of it, they're told everything else is useless.

Of course, they come out unskilled and unwilling to learn new skills--and needing servants to do all tasks.

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