The Muslim Post

What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?

What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?

Turkey’s recently reelected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has made expansion of Muslim schools a top priority. Erdogan’s government is reported to have approved a religious education budget of US$1.5 billion this year, an increase of 68 percent. Whether or not they receive public funding like those in Turkey, religious schools are a common feature of Muslim life. […]

Pakistani Military Chief: Are Religious Schools Preparing Students for Job Market?

Pakistani Military Chief: Are Religious Schools Preparing Students for Job Market?

Pakistan’s powerful army chief of staff has waded into the sensitive issue of madrassas, questioning how well the religious schools are preparing students in the age of technology. General Qamar Javed Bajwa shared his critique of madrassas in a seminar about youth development in Quetta, which the United States and Afghanistan think is home to […]

Officials: Pakistani Religious Schools Increasingly Linked to Afghan Taliban

Officials: Pakistani Religious Schools Increasingly Linked to Afghan Taliban

When Afghan intelligence officials, assisted by international investigators, probed a terror attack last month that killed five Emirati diplomats in Kandahar, they traced the suspects to a conservative religious seminary in Pakistan. “The attack was planned in Mawlawi Ahmad Madrassa in Chaman, Quetta,” said Sediq Seddiqi, a spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Interior. The […]