madrassas

The Taliban is mostly comprised of Afghan refugees who were raised in the madrassas of Pakistan.

The Taliban is a hybrid tribal confederacy and an offshoot of the Pakistani ISI run by the children of the madrassas funded by the gulf states.

The line is that with my tax dollars, I don't want to fund madrassas or kids studying jesus riding around on a brontosaur.

They've built over 10,000 new Hanbali, Salafist Wahabi madrassas in Pakistan over the past 50 years.

Radicalization financing is nothing new from KSA and is not confined to madrassas of India.

Yeshivahs and madrassas are nothing new; in Bhutan, there monasteries brimming with young boys spending their days studying voluminous Tibetan Buddhist scriptures.

Why ignore the founding of early Taliban madrassas by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in Pakistan?

Ironically enough, the closest thing these folks get to actual civil society, is their religious institutions - the mosques, the madrassas and so forth.

There is extensive documentation on the fact the Saudi Arabia and other states in the region fund fundamentalist, Hanafi / Wahabbist madrassas in Pakistan.

My, uneducated, guess on Iran is that college-eligible men are likelier to go to madrassas or the like seeking government or religious power over education.

So we helped them fund and train militants by building madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

My father in law told us about Saudis funding these Madrassas in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh where they preach hatred of the US and Israel.

"The line is that with my tax dollars, I don't want to fund madrassas or kids studying jesus riding around on a brontosaur." That line of argument can be extended in all kinds of ridiculous directions.

Highly reputable journalists and intelligence sources have also extensively documented the Saudi funding sources that supported (and still support to this day) wahabbist madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the "V1.0" of the Taliban in the 1990s, and other fundamentalist salafist jihadi groups.

But their kids all go to English medium schools, not Madrassas.

Al Qaeda and many other jihadi outfits procure a lot of their funding from Islamic charities and schools (Madrassas) with complex and very opaque financial dealings.