Has anyone over here visitied an Islamic madrassa? Do they really teach things related to terrorism?

Question

or is it just western propaganda?

I'm not trying to trouble anyone. If you feel troubled then plz do not answer this question.

Answer 1

A madrassa is where they teach Quran and Hadiths (sayings of Prophet) and they do not have to do anything with hate, terrorism.

However when I was in Pakistan, I did hear about recruiters from different militant organizations who would go to such places and try to recruite people from there just like we see tables of USA army here in our colleges.

Answer 2

An Islamic madrassa is essentially just a mosque-based school in which serious scholars learn the principles of Islam. What is taught depends on the imam (teacher) as is the same in any classroom.

Answer 3

Madrassa= school
Madrassa is the Arabic name of a school.
Nothing is different.

I have done 16 years of education, my kids doing their education...we have not seen such teaching as any one may suggest, as teaching of terrorism.

Did the Irish people go to such schools during the past 50-60n years , while they were fitting the British...?

Answer 4

we have plenty of islamic madrassa in Indonesia here. Nothing terorist about it. It is a muslim school, similar with catholic school where you must pray before and after studies, just the same.

what wonders me was is it really a propaganda about madrassa as a terorist school?
my...my...

Answer 5

They do not teach things related to terrorism. But many a times it is seen that they give place to terrorists to hide themselves.

Answer 6

The word madrasah (مدرسة in Arabic) means school or "learning center". It is often transliterated as madrasah, madrash, medresa, or madressa. This word also exists in many Arabic-influenced languages such as Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Indonesian, Malaysian and Bosnian. In the Arabic language, the word مدرسة implies no sense other than that which the word school represents in the English language, such as private, public or parochial school, as well as for any primary or secondary school whether Muslim, non-Muslim or secular. Unlike the understanding of the word school in British English, the word madrasah is referred to as a university in American English. The appropriate word for the university, however, is al-Jami'ah. The Hebrew cognate "midrasha" also connotes the meaning of a place of learning.

It is commonly understood that wherever the governments failed to provide general education to its common citizens, private religious establishments succeeded to take the lead to fill this gap and administer the educational system of the country according to their own principles. In this context, a madrasah herewith is referred as an Islamic school for Muslims, just as a parochial school for Roman Catholic children or the yeshiva for orthodox Jews. Although these institutions are academically assigned to provide general education, they also feel obliged to teach their students about the fundamentals of their religion - in the case of a madrasah, Islam. Just like normal schools many madrassahs enrol female students, however as is the muslim custom, they usually study separately from the opposite sex. There are also examples of large all-girl madrasahs.

A typical madrasah usually offers two courses of study: a "hifz" course; that is memorisation of the Qur'an (the person who commits the entire Qur'an to memory is called a hafiz); and an 'alim course leading the candidate to become an accepted scholar in the community. A regular curriculum includes courses in Arabic, Tafsir (Qur'anic interpretation), shari'ah (Islamic law), Hadith (recorded sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad), Mantiq (logic), and Islamic History. Depending on the educational demands, some madrasahs also offer additional advanced courses in Arabic literature, English, and other foreign languages as well as science and world history.

People of all ages attend, and many often move on to becoming imams. The certificate of an `aalim for example, requires approximately twelve years of study. A good number of the huffaz (plural of hafiz) are the product of the madrasahs. The madrasahs also resemble colleges, where people take evening classes and reside in dormitories. An important function of the madrasahs is to admit orphans and poor children in order to provide them with education and training.

There are approximately 10,000 madrasahs currently (as of 1998?) operating in Pakistan. Contrary to some media reports, only 0.3 percent of Pakistani school age children are enrolled in traditional madrasahs. This is according to Pakistan's 1998 Population Census [1]. Other sources estimate that enrollment at 1–1.5 million children although the 1998 Population Census found only 150,000 children. Orphans, migrants, and part-time students may explain the discrepancy. Regardless, percentage wise, the madrasah enrollment is relatively insignificant. There are some madrasah-like institutions also in North America and in Europe. Established in 859 A.D. Jami'at al-Qarawiyyin (located in Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque) in the city of Fas (Fez), it is not only considered the oldest madrasah in the Muslim world but perhaps the first university ever established in the world.

Due to administrative mishandling, radical political indoctrination of students and adopting a more conservative view of the simple teachings of Islam, especially in certain Muslim countries such as Pakistan, the madrasahs nowadays are frequently deemed as ideological and political training grounds for hatred against the West. In Pakistan in particular, the heavy emphasis on religious teachings to the exclusion of more economically viable subject areas has been criticised. The Western media to some extent is also criticized for producing misleading reports on madrasahs.

Answer 7

just western propaganda

Answer 8

none they teach to be patient when u trouble them like this

Answer 9

DEFINITELY WESTERN PROPAGANDA
Don't believe everything you see in CNN or FOX.
Ask and learn more.

Answer 10

Is This what you teach your children in schools, it surely is what they do in Israel:

"They warred against Midian, as YAHWEH commanded Moses, and killed every male. They killed the kings of Midian ... And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. All their cities in the places where they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burned with fire." (Numbers 31:7)

"Moses was enraged with the officers of the army ... ‘So you spared the women! ... Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man, but keep the virgins for yourselves ... divide them up evenly.'" (Numbers 31:15)

"And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And YAHWEH said to Moses, 'Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. A hand upon the banner of YAHWEH! YAHWEH will be at war with Amalek for all generations.'" (Exodus 17:13)

"Thus says YAHWEH of hosts, 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.'" And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley. And Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them." ... So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. And Saul defeated the Amalekites ... and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword ... And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of YAHWEH, I have gone on the mission on which YAHWEH sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Amalek , and I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites." (1 Samuel 15:2, 20)

"Now David and his men went up, and made raids upon the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites ... And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Achish ... And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, "Lest they should tell about us, and say, 'So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines." (1 Samuel 27:8)

"For YAHWEH’S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter." (Isaiah 34:2)

"The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of YAHWEH; and YAHWEH gave them into the hands of the Midianites seven years ... because of the Midianites the people of Israel hid in caves and holes in the ground." (Judges 6:1)
Genesis 35:5
The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them.

Exodus 23:27
I will send my fear before thee.

Deuteronomy 2:25
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

Deuteronomy 4:34
... by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors....

Judges 16:27-30
Now the house was full of men and women ... about three thousand men and women.... And Samson called unto the LORD, and said ... strengthen me ... that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines.... And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood..... And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
(Joshua 6:20-21)

Joshua son of Nun wished to enter Palestine with his people. So he encamped around the city of Jericho and commanded the people to blow their horns. "As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword "