West is to blame for bombers say mullahs

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../ncleric315.xml

"All must learn the Koran by heart and the very best will master all 6,666 verses within six months, a feat that Mullah Rahim says is plainly a miracle, a gift from God."

Tripple six, 4 sixes, 5 if you count the sixths month, which god likes so many sixes? 666 hmmm...

"Pakistan's president, Gen Pervaiz Musharraf, himself a victim of assassination attempts by Islamic militants, has advocated a course of "enlightened moderation" with the madrassas.

However, very few have taken up the offer to modernise a curriculum introduced in a Baghdad school in 1057.

And this month fresh attempts at reform - introducing maths, science and computing - were rejected at a major conference attended by Pakistan's minister for religious affairs."

Interesting, instead of learning math, science, and computing, they are learning a curriculim introduced in 1057. So who is educating whom, and who is dragging whom back to the dark ages.

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Good article. Thanks for the links. I have added them to my own collection. Sure does take a lot of time reading all the news these days. Oh well, personal illumination and expansion is time well spent.