Western education does not change Muslims

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Mar 8, 2007 at 16:43

Octavio, you seem to be missing the point. Education does not change any Muslim's mind regarding their religion. Or else, how do you explain college educated 19 Saudi Arabian killers who crashed planes in the World Trade Center.(Mo'd Atta had a master's degree in electrical engineering!!!) If anything, the more educated, the more radical Muslim.

At present the Muslims in USA and Canada may not be behaving like the uneducated African Muslims in your country, but down the road trouble will start here also. Education may temporarily blunt the force of Islam within them but eventually, it will come out.

Inspite of Australia's selective immigration policy, we have heard so much about Muslim immigrants behaving badly in Sydney and Melbourne. Afterall, all of these Muslims, educated as well as uneducated, attend the same mosque where the imported imams, mullahs(from Pakistan, Saudi arabia etc) teach them the same old religion from back home.

So, education does not change their outlook about all non-Muslims.

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