This is no surprise. There has long been a problem with the preaching of jihad in Afghan schools, and in those in neighboring Pakistan also. A 2015 study by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit turned up “extensive activity” by jihadist groups in schools; groups including Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jamiat-e-Islah, and Tehrik-e-Islami. These groups were found to be recruiting teachers who then recruited students.
Fazal Mohammad Hussaini, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs, which oversees religious schools and mosques, has admitted that the ministry doesn’t know what mosques are teaching. That’s because tens of thousands of mosques exist in the country, while only “about 7,000 are registered with the ministry.”
The West has the same problem: officials have no idea what is being taught in mosques under our noses, and to merely suggest the monitoring of mosques is met with screams of “Islamophobia.” Thanks to proponents of reckless open-door immigration, the West is importing an increasing number of jihadists who operate under the radar. Take for instance, a Georgia mosque whose imam boasted that there “has not been another 9/11 because Islam is winning.”
“In Afghanistan, Religious Schools Are a Breeding Ground for Islamic State Influence,” by Stefanie Glinski, Foreign Policy, January 24, 2020:
KUNAR, Afghanistan—A small group of boys sits cross-legged on the floor, reciting the Quran under their breath, their bodies moving rhythmically to the Arabic words, in the light-flooded rooms of the religious school connected to the mosque in the village of Lamatak.
“At first I’d read the Arabic text without understanding, but our teachers are always here to answer our questions,” Fazil Haq, a green-eyed 14-year-old student, said excitedly. “God will be happy when I study the Quran.”
All of the children here in the madrassa in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province are getting their education free of charge. But Afghan security officials are increasingly concerned that too much of the money going to newly mushrooming madrassas such as this one could be encouraging extremism in the region. With the Kabul administration only able to financially support a minority of mosques and religious schools, money from Islamic State sympathizers might fund a growing majority of these institutions. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs says there are likely tens of thousands of mosques in the country, but only about 7,000 are registered with the ministry.
“Of course that’s a problem, and it is mainly due to lacking funding,” said Fazal Mohammad Hussaini, the ministry’s spokesman. “The messages and Friday sermons in the registered mosques are largely controlled and prepared by the ministry, but not all of Afghanistan is under government control, and we don’t know for certain what some mosques might be teaching.”
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, says some madrassa funding helps support Islamic State activities, though most religious leaders of both mosques and madrassas deny this. But as peace talks with the Taliban falter, some Afghan officials are worried about a rebirth of radical Islamism.
Mullawi Abdul Rahman, 25, who teaches about 90 students, said around 30 of them have come from all across Kunar and stay in the madrassa’s dorms, while the rest of the boys are local villagers.
But in Lamatak—home to about 300 families—villagers claim that at night, Islamic State fighters have been coming down from the nearby mountains, seeking shelter for the night in both houses and the mosque, before scattering again at dawn. Rahman denied this….
Michael Copeland says
“we don’t know for certain what some mosques might be teaching.”
Jihad watchers in the West can predict.
Halal Bacon says
yes, find a hungry belly and indoctrinate it – simple really
jca reid says
Well, no surprise there then! It had to come from somewhere! At their schools Education is very Basic for the kids. Girls’ Education, I have read statements from imams, say their education should END when they are 8years old. That is enough for them. As for boys. The VAST majority of the Time it is simply learning the Koran by rote. Mohammed was THE BEST Human Being Ever! THE Perfect Role Model to Follow. Imitate his conduct & you will be Perfect. A lot of the time is spent just denigrating other Races. Ethnicities & Cultures. Seen it in a Madrassa School in Birmingham, England, this “Apprentice” Imam. only 18years old, clearly recorded saying, “Hindus are filthy pigs. They drink cow’s urine.” This was the first time I had heard this lie. The apprentice must have forgot to mention about drinking camel’s urine. They & their ideology are a disgrace!
Walter Sieruk says
Those ISIS influenced and at least, in part controlled , Islamic mind programming centers which some call Muslim “schools” do much harm to young people ,who of course are very impressionable , The imams and mullahs as well as others who take a part in the strong indoctrination of the youth trapped in those centers are ingrain in their hearts and minds of the boys in such “schools’ that the Qur ‘an, ,also called the Koran “is infallible so it contain no errors of false doctrines”. The results of this Islamic mind control centers are brain washed people who are literally “dangerous to self and others” For the Koran does instruct that a true Muslim to engage in suicide /homicide attacks .For example the Koran in Sura 9:111 informs the devout Muslim the “The believers fight in Allah’s cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Likewise their are other similar verse in the “holy book” of Islam that give instruction that Muslim are to take part in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As in 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,,123. 47:4.
All this may also be put in another way by explaining that there are Muslim mind control places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas.
In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4.
Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31.
Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique, and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those ISIS influence “schools” in Afghanistan are places of Muslim child abuse for the Islamic god,Allah.
Such Islamic mind control centers engage in the exploitation of youth to the extreme. Those adult jihadists of ISIS brainwashing and then using children as stooges and tools for the Muslim god ,Allah and Islam’s jihad demonically wicked .to use boys as human bombs is totally unconscionable.
Those Muslim clerics, as the imams, with their Islamic lies and lines to must have kept telling them is completely despicable. Such Koranic lies and lies the say are “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some very strange kind of “We.” For the reader might, very well, notice that the imams never, ever, strap bombs vests on themselves and then go out and commit the suicide bombing.
All Muslims the clerics do is brainwash other people into actually wanting be becomes human bombs. Then they manipulative those people to go out and engages in murderous jihad attacks. In other words they create the delusional and dangerous mindset in other to such a demonic extent the theses people are literally dangerous to self and others. Then all the while those suicide/homicide bombings are going on those same Muslims clerics, who mind program those people in the first place ,site home safe. This alone shows the real deplorable character of those Muslims clerics.
As for the above just sited lines and lies the imams tell those naive impressionable children , this unconscionable deceit of the Muslim clerics of giving instruction based on total falsehoods and fables in incite youth to become human bombs . About such evil men who are very insidious and dangerous ,the Bible informs its reader that “”The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
One sad and tragic reality is that some children might have been so thoroughly damaged by the ISIS /Islamic mind control and brainwashing system that some of the children may be dangerous to self and other.
For the totally despicable and cowardly of the adults jihadist /Muslims of ISIS and other like-minded jihad terror entities are to brainwash , manipulate , exploit and abuse impressionable youths as suicide/homicide bombers for their mad Islamic quest., Some good people of reason, might , stop and wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihad-minded adults be so completely cruel and unconscionable as to use, youth as stooges and tools for human bombs ?”
The answer to the question is found in the Bible. For the Bible informs its reader that there are some people who are so extremely heartless, unfeeling, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.] The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.
elee says
This is no surprise when it happens in Pakistan. What poisons are your first-world madrasas pumping out in your own town?
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Islamic schools for children are breeding grounds for Islamic State influence
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How many other Islamic schools, all over the world, are just like this?
Giacomo Latta says
All madrassas should be put on the list of terrorist organizations because that is precisely what they are.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
Why should Americans be concerned over Islamic teachings being taught in Islamic schools in distant Islamic countries to Islamic children?
For many years the Islamic Shahada prayer of conversion, the Five Pillars of Islam (the Islamic equivalent of the Christian 10 Commandments) have been being taught in America’s PUBLIC high schools to American students.
A fully illustrated 32 page chapter singing the praises of the Prophet Mohammed and his beautiful religion have been in American 10th grade World History textbooks and made mandatory learning curriculum.
American PUBLIC high school students right here in the good ole USA (my son included) have been required to design their own personal Islamic prayer rug, memorize and be tested on the 5 Pillars of Islam, and recite aloud in unison, led by the teacher, the Islamic Shahada prayer of Islamic conversion.
Screw Afghanistan!
We have to deal with the cancer in our own backyard.
gravenimage says
Muslims do the same here.