Talk:Madrassas in Pakistan

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Ideas about Pakistani Madrassas

It seems that the article is overtly biased; it considers most Madrassas radical. This is not true, as stated by many historians. While media attn. has been given to mainly radical schools, other schools do teach a moderate/traditionalist Islamic studies. This is even corroborated in a CNN article from a few months ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/karachi.boys/index.html?iref=newssearch —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.218.240 (talk) 21:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if the page has been edited since the first comment, but this article is still overtly biased. The following excerpt highlights what I mean:

"This association [between political violence and madrassas] is a consequence of the illiterate and uneducated Americans, who can not simply comprehend the simple meaning of a word without being ignorant and creating non-existent ties for themselves due to their personal hatred of Muslims."

The editorializing is completely unnecessary in the article itself.

NPOV

The preceding unsigned racist anti-American comment notwithstanding, the article right now is fairly balanced in my humble opinion. I added a section about links to terrorist funding, which is well supported by mainstream news sources. Try googling "madrassa" + "pakistan" + "terror" for more sources, restricting the search to mainstream media. My source is http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables-saudi-terrorist-funding and the relevant paragraph "Meanwhile officials with the LeT's charity wing, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, travelled to Saudi Arabia seeking donations for new schools at vastly inflated costs – then siphoned off the excess money to fund militant operations." Pär Larsson (talk) 00:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]