Hard-Line Pakistani Schools Lure Foreigners -- MSNBC/APU.S., others fear students could export extremism to home countries.
KARACHI, Pakistan - Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran.
He is one of thousands of foreigners who have flocked to conservative Islamic schools in Pakistan, despite a government ban, the Associated Press has found through interviews with officials, documents, visits to the schools and encounters with dozens of students.
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My Comment: After many assurances from the Pakistani Government that these radical madrassas were being closed .... we now know (with no surprise) that these schools of hate are still opened.
If we want to win in this war against radical Islam, one of the strategies that must be implemented is to attack the philosophical and educational aspects of this extremism. But how can this succeed if the institutions that permit this hate are permitted to operate in the open and to be able to attract thousands, while other educational institutions that can serve as an alternative are limited and/or are too expensive to be used by the poor.