November 2005 Critics in the West argue that Pakistan's madrassas glorify terrorism and should be shut down. But any proposed reforms are bound to be controversial in Pakistan. At a madrassa in Pakistan, students are being trained by an army officer. Under banners saluting bin Laden, they pledge solidarity to the Taliban. This video, filmed in October 2001, demonstrates the links between the schools and military. The army uses the idea of Jihad to pursue its objectives in Afghanistan and Kashmir. "Who are we to tell them that they are militants or extremists or terrorists. It's all diabolical nonsense", states General Hameed Gul, former head of Pakistan's intelligence service. After the July bombings, it was revealed that at least one bomber had visited the madrassas. Musharraf announced plans to reform the schools. But these reforms have now been watered down. "We don't want to put 17,000 odd madrassas into jeopardy", explains Religious Affairs Minister Ejas Ul-Hug. Having already survived two assassination attempts by those who believe he is too Western, Musharraf is in a delicate position. He is telling the West what it wants to hear but real reform remains elusive.

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/04/Douglas_Johnston_on_Faith-Based_Diplomacy Author and diplomat Douglas Johnston describes a campaign to reform Pakistani madrassas using religion-based diplomacy. ----- Douglas Johnston discusses Faith-based Diplomacy: Bridging the Religious Divide. Douglas M. Johnston is President and Founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD). He led the 7-year study that produced the book, Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft, published in 1994 by Oxford University Press and now in its 13th printing and second foreign translation. ICRD aims to address identity-based conflicts that exceed the grasp of traditional diplomacy by incorporating religion as part of the solution. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He has served in senior positions in government, business, academia, and the military. He served as deputy assistant secretary of the navy (manpower); director of policy planning and management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also served as Executive Vice President and COO of CSIS. His latest book is Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik (2003).

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The Afghan government is trying to reform the country's religious schools and encourage them to teach other subjects as well as religion. Efforts to build state-funded schools are hampered by shortage of funds and resistance from the schools' teachers. The government worries that without regulation, madrassas could become a breeding ground for a new generation of Taliban fighters.

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What are MADRASSAS? Where did they originate from? Listen & be surprised! NOTE: All our listeners are free to copy our chapters as long as they are not tampered with in any manner.

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Many Afghan parents find it cheaper and safer to send their children across the border to Pakistan to be educated in religious schools, known as madrassas. Now the United States has started building its own madrassas in Afghanistan in the hope of keeping a new generation out of the clutches of hardline Islamist preachers. Gethin Chamberlain reports on the challenges facing the Afghan education system and travels to a village where going to school means braving marauding wolves on a two hour walk through a minefield.

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Sep 2001 Pakistani leadership is in serious danger of alienating a significant sector of the country by working with the USA against fundamentalist Islam. However, he is in serious danger of alienating a significant sector of his country by working with the USA against fundamentalist Islam. It is no secret that Pakistan has trained and supported many high ranking Taliban officials; "Government policy has been to support the Taliban, give them backing, give them advice, give them help in material fields where they may be lacking". But the Madrassas have also trained many Pakistani generals and fundamentalism is widespread amongst the militia and the general populace. We talk to the very visible militant sectors in Pakistan, spurred on by the Holy wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir and clearly not inclined to alignment with America.

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Ahmed Shah MASSOUD (1953-2001), chef militaire et homme politique afghan, figure de proue de la lutte contre Afghanistan Kaboul Pakistan afghan afghans afghane afghanes taliban talibans pakistanais vallée du Panshir islamiste islamistes journalisme journaliste journalistes reportage reportages grand reporter grands reporters mollah mollahs guerre guerres charia école coranique écoles coraniques madrassa madrassas http://www.restaurant-pamir.com/accueil.html commandant Massoud FIGRA presse pressesl'occupation soviétique pendant la guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1988), puis de l'opposition au régime taliban (1996-2001).. Ahmed Shah Massoud est originaire de Bazarak, village de la vallée du Panshir, au nord de la capitale afghane. Fils de colonel, il fréquente le lycée français de Kaboul, puis entreprend des études d'ingénieur. Musulman fervent, il intègre la mouvance islamiste alors en plein essor parmi la jeunesse lettrée de Kaboul, et s'engage très tôt dans les rangs des combattants anti-communistes. En 1975, sa participation à l'une des premières insurrections islamistes le contraint à fuir au Pakistan. Il revient en Afghanistan après le coup d'État communiste du 27 avril 1978 puis, à la suite de l'invasion soviétique (fin décembre 1979), il rejoint les Moudjahiddines et entame une guerre sans merci contre l'occupant. Stratège hors pair et chef de guerre charismatique, il acquiert le surnom de « lion du Panshir » pour ses faits d'armes contre l'Armée rouge.

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The BIG Debate: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War in Iraq Libertarians Ron Paul & Doug Casey vs. Conservatives Larry Abraham & Dinesh D'Souza A summary of the points raised during the rebuttal: Dinesh D'Souza * The issue here is not just "the government", it's also what the founders stood for. Libertarians believe the founders stood for liberty. Is liberty only good for us? The principled libertarian, like the founders, believes that liberty is a universal aspiration. * The idea of 911 as a police action: Memo to our opponents; the guys that did 911 are all dead. If that's the war on terror then you might as well declare it over. What about all the new terrorists coming out of the madrassas committing bombings all over the world? * The idea that we should pull all of our troops home everywhere and get involved nowhere; if you took this idiotic principle and applied it over the past 100 years...is it the idea that if FDR didn't like Hitler he should go choke him himself? * Blowback; foreign policy is sometimes about the principle of the lesser evil. Sometimes you ally with the bad guy to get rid of the worse guy. In WW2 we allied with the really bad guy--Stalin--because Hitler posed a greater threat at the time. * We sold those weapons to Saddam? Non-sense. The U.S. diplomatically tilted towards Iraq in the 80's because Khomeini then posed a greater threat than Saddam. * It is true we're seeing a blowback. Is the average Muslim in the Sudan or Somalia or Islamabad willing to go to his death because the Palestinians don't have a state? Give me a break. Is the ordinary Muslim willing to kill himself because there are troops in Mecca? There are no troops in Mecca. They're 500 miles away in the Saudi desert. The average Muslim is not saying that in the street. * What they're saying is: the US is the global head of the unbelievers or the pagans. The US is exporting thorough globalization and free trade values that are undermining Islam, destroying the Muslim family, and corrupting the innocence of Muslim children. Pulling home the troops will not stop that. Their argument is the fundamental values of Islam are being attacked. * It is American ideas and values that are at the root of this. Either we stand up and fight for them, or we go down with them. Ron Paul * If we had respected private property and not used regulation to take away the responsibility to protect passengers from the airlines themselves, it's likely that the pilots of the planes that were used on 911 would have had guns in the cockpit and been able to defend themselves and prevent the event from occurring. * Now 911 is the excuse for perpetual war. Iraq had nothing to do with 911, yet 911 is the excuse for the initiation of the Iraq invasion. * Our foreign policy creates conditions for terrorism * Christian non-intervention means you don't go to war carelessly and you do not preemptively strike a nation that has not threatened you. * Michael Scheuer is the world expert on Bin Laden who says Ron Paul is the enemy of Al Qaeda because if we take Paul's advice it will remove the primary source of new recruits for Al Qaeda. They like us in their backyard (Iraq) where they can pick us off one by one and wear us down. * Suicide terrorism's root cause is not radical Islam. Robert Pape's book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism notes the top suicide bombing nation is not Islamic -- it happens to be Sri lanka. I was unconvinced he was right, but he convinced me. The top motivation to get someone to commit suicide terrorism is foreign occupation. * It's the Arabian peninsula that is considered holy land by the terrorists, not just Mecca. * The fundamental principle of the constitution is non-intervention and minding our own business. If we had embraced that principle all along and apply it in the future we will be much safer. FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in a liberal, open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank. Founded and produced by Mark Skousen since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals. www.FreedomFest.com

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Oct 1998 Exploring the complex web of relations between the Taliban, Iran, Pakistan and fundamentalist Islamic groups. The story makes it clear that the Taliban have now turned their attention to Iran and have been fermenting trouble there. The Taliban take us to see Iranian hostages. Caught by the mujahadeen these diplomats were sold to the Taliban. They're booty in the intensifying struggle between the two great houses of Islam. Afghanistan is Sunni - Iran, Shia. Taliban members tell us of their intent to take the Taliban's revolution on to Iran. Mohiuddin is a militant member of Iran's Sunni minority. They are guests of the Taliban and have previously operated here in secret. But here they make an explosive announcement: the launch of their own Taliban-style revolution on Iranian soil. And if nations start aligning, Pakistan would be right by the Taliban's side. Pakistan's creation of the Taliban is again strongly depicted through the Taliban Madrassas or schools, which are based in Pakistan. Filming in a key religious school near Peshawar, we find Sami-ul-Haq preaching to 2,500 students from all over the Arab world. A man who is one of the Taliban's ideological founding fathers, provides them with a new generation of recruits. Sami-ul-Haq is an ex Pakistani senator and his schools have trained many of the Taliban's central committee members. He tells us; "We now have Taliban from Arab countries, the Far East - Thailand etc. Central Asia also, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan - They are also seeking Islam." Anti-western students throw insults at the camera. Meanwhile in bullet-ridden Kandahar we capture the militant Islamic state in action. At a public execution crowds gather to see 3 men convicted of murder gunned down by their victim's relatives.

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Recitation of a child from one of the Qur'aan Madrassas that the participants from the Development Programme 2006 visited. It is quite amazing Maashaa'Allaah.

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En septembre 1996, l'Afghanistan tombe aux mains des Talibans. Malgré toutes les interdictions, la journaliste Marine Jacquemin et son équipe tentent de rendre compte de la situation. Un témoignage fort sur le pays à cette époque et sur le métier de reporter. En voir plus sur : http://www.vodeo.tv/4-69-2835-profession-reporter-le-pays-des-interdits.html?PARTID=9085

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Rozina, Mohsin, Irum, Asghar and Kabeer... five children from deprived backgrounds. Five children with little hope of moving beyond the confines of their existence. Now they have dreams that they can actually aspire to. Medicine, engineering, flying, law-enforcement... it all lies within their reach... This is the story of a march against illiteracy and of the children realizing their potential.

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Recitation of a child from one of the Qur'aan Madrassas that the participants from the Development Programme 2006 visited. It is quite amazing Maashaa'Allaah

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www.washingtonpost.com/america Malegaon, Maharashtra - In 2004, American Embassy representatives visited Malegaon to scope out its Muslim population and donated US$9000 worth of books to Professor Mustufa Khan's secular university. But they gave nothing to the many madrassas they toured. This was a grave mistake, Khan tells me after prayers at Jamia Mohammadia Mansoora Madrassa...

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Malegaon, Maharashtra - Mufti Mohammed Ismail, the leading cleric of Malegaon, a 75% Muslim town known for its many madrassas, tells me the religious schools here try hard to avoid discussion of America and global politics, but "there's a restlessness among students" who raise difficult questions. When teachers themselves believe "America has a systematic conspiracy to eradicate Islam" how can they explain "America's cruel and violent actions around the world" to curious students without inspiring hatred? The answer, I'm told, is in history and religion: "power is not permanent," "the cruel reap what they sow" and so "America will die its own death." In short, be patient. Read all here: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2007/07/inside_an_indian_madrassa_peac.html

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This is an excellent film, but badly named -- "Radical" Islam isn't at war with "the West"; it is at war with the entire non-Islamic world. Furthermore, "Radical" Islam doesn't in any way represent a bastardization of a "religion of peace" (or some such); it is, in fact, the REAL Islam, whereas any "kinder, gentler" Islam is merely a watered-down brand adhered to by subjugated populations in a kind of social inertia. Islamic anti-Semitism predates Nazism by over 1,000 years.

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Rozina, Mohsin, Irum, Asghar and Kabeer... five children from deprived backgrounds. Five children with little hope of moving beyond the confines of their existence. Now they have dreams that they can actually aspire to. Medicine, engineering, flying, law-enforcement... it all lies within their reach... This is the story of a march against illiteracy and of the children realizing their potential.

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Few nation-states in the world have greater strategic importance to the United States than does Pakistan. This video focuses on Benazir Bhutto's role in the country's political events of 2007.

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