Madrassas, literally schools in which terror is taught, are a major source of international instability and contribute largely toward the growth of terrorist activity. Just think about 12,000 madrassas turning out 100 or more students a year each - thats 1.2 million newly trained terrorists a year from Pakistan, alone. And nothing is really being done about the problem, they are just put under pressure to kick out the "foreign" students, which is continually and indefinately delayed. What about all of those little terrorists that are not foreign students? That's a lot of new terrorists every year!

What kind of a stupid article is this? This article makes no sense.

Robert,
Sorry you don't "get it." Rather than explain the obvious, perhaps you might think about it for a while. The law against madrassas having foreign students isn't being enforced, there's 12,000 of them, and growing, there's a large number of students in each of them, and they're churning out more and more terrorists - every year. Think, Rob.

The height of ignorance:

"Madrassas, literally schools in which terror is taught"

Madrassas are NOT literally terror schools. There are schools where students are taught about the Islamic faith. The fact that a very tiny majority were perverted by some 'terrorists' to teach their agenda, does not mean that all madrassas are terrorist making machines. Even smaller are the number of international students in these madrassas.

I would ask you to get your fact straight before making sweeping statements and categorizing an entire nation. Almost like saying, since George Bush is an idiot and is America's president, all americans must be idiots.

Marium,
You make a good point.

However, if you had taken just a little more time and read the link (related to the text you speak of), you would have found that "Madrassas, literally schools in which terror is taught" is a direct quote from the CNN article of July 19, 2005 (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/19/pakistan.islamic.schools.ap/).

While it is true that many of Pakistan's madrassas are indeed "threadbare operations that take in the poor," almost all teach only the Islamic religion and nothing else - and most teach fundamentalist Islam. They are therefore wellsprings of terrorism, and are highly criticized by most Western leaders as such.

Your issue is with the teachers at the madrassas, the Pakistani government that tolerates them, the international community that recognizes the problem, and literally all of the leaders in the West that correctly label them for what they are - very poor sources of education for anything except teaching fundamentalist Islam - not the Islam that is generally accepted by most Muslims as being representative of the mainstream beliefs.

Students learn no unbiased versions of world history, little science, little mathmatics (in all of Pakistan there are only 80 math teachers), and no job skills except for work in madrassas - they have nothing to do after graduation except to make their contribution to the international pool of terrorists.

This is not to say that madrassas actually teach a militant curriculum, but they train people who are more bent on a religious view of things, and likely to become militant and obtain actual terrorist training for militant jihad.

The madrassa curriculum doesn't prepare students for a modern economy. And they produce religious conservatives who are likely to vote that way if democracy comes to their countries. Only now, and barely, are these schools starting to buy computers and teach such subjects as English, chemistry, and physics. While those are the skills terrorists need, it will be less of a problem if the economies in Pakistan and other countries improve so that they offer a source of income other than joining al Qaeda.

Until then, madrassas will continue to train students to have a mindset conducive to becoming a participant in global terrorism.