Posted on 04/01/2009 11:36:32 AM PDT by Mathias Brinkley
Bangladesh will bring thousands of unregistered Islamic schools under the education ministry to curb militancy, a government minister said Wednesday.
The minister's statement came a week after security forces seized a cache of arms and explosives from the Green Crescent madrasa at a village near Bhola district town, 350 km (219 miles) south of the capital Dhaka.
Four militants were also arrested and a hunt to arrest their mentors was launched.
"We are surveying all the Qaumi (radical) madrasas to bring those under the education ministry, so that those institutions cannot be used for raising militancy," Law Minister Shahfique Ahmed told reporters.
Bangladesh has more than 15,000 Qaumi and some 9,000 Aliya (government-registered) madrasas with a total of more than six million students.
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AW-fully decent of those chaps.
So the Islamic schools are going to be de-Islamized?
So are they going to rewrite the Koran?
believe this when I see it bump.
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