Elaboration of Islamic teachings: Tariq and Kafir

Submitted by E.J. Shafer (United States), Oct 24, 2006 at 03:01

Tariq and Kafir: In all your comments I find no reference to the teaching methods employed in the various Madrassas. What many do not know or fathom is that young boys, often orphans, are required to learn the Quran by rote and required to quote sura and verse from memory. There are no courses in scientific subjects, history , except from Koranic content, no study of music, art or the humanities.

When this is the foundation of learning one can easily see why these individuals are fodder for the Mullahs who preach hatred throughout the land. As pointed out in an editorial printed in in a leading British newspaper; and I quote" whereas we in the civilized world study how to create airplanes for use in transporting passengers and the goods of commercial enterprise, Islamic youth are being taught how to employ airliners to destroy buildings and kill non-believers but how also to use hijacking airliners as bartering chips to free other terrorists who are imprisoned and for the sheer propaganda it generates for consumption of the "true believers. Yes indeed, we are so different from them

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