apr 28th, 2008
interesting that the tide might well be turning a wee bit against mohammedan demands for extraordinary concessions to them in non-mohammedan countries (think how many sanskrit schools they would allow in saudi arabia!). normally their money buys acquiescence from everybody.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/nyregion/28school.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=65f582b0f5c6df77&ex=1209614400
the money for this effort, some $400k, came from the bill gates foundation. interesting entity the NGO, "New Visions for Public Schools". why on earth didn't the various arab governments who have pots of money now, not fund the school themselves?
they do that in india. for instance, i went to iim calicut some time ago, and in the vicinity of that, there's a 500-acre compound (which is gigantic by kerala standards in that land-poor state) for teaching kashmiri children! and it's funded by some persian gulf government. why kashmiri children need to be taught in calicut and what exactly they are being taught are both extremely interesting. i have seen large groups of these youngsters walking around, all dressed in white, with religious caps on, and they didn't all look kashmiri to me. quite a few might have been local mohammedan kids too.
as a coincidence (not connected to the above, of course), let me mention how the SIMI has become more and more active in malabar.
education is a most effective weapon in many ways. it's lucrative too, as the godmen and padres have demonstrated in india.
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The article says -
“It is much easier to see how, working through the system — the school system, the media, the religious organizations, the government, businesses and the like — you can promote radical Islam.”
Sounds like a plan our 'pseudo-secularists' have followed in highjacking all our systems.
If I am not mistaken, the school for Kashmiri children in Malabar is run by the sunni leader Kanthapuram Abubaker musaliyar. He is well-known for his extremist viewpoints (Saw him being interviewed in Asianet TV an year ago. Most of his comments would have seriously offended women,non-muslims or even non-sunnis. Had it been a hindu leader in his place Kerala would have erupted)
It is not difficult to guess what the children will be taught in there.
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