Islamic Education, Madrassah Reform, Rationality and Dawkins

Re: # 1

PS: I don`t think arabs will/can ever do it... but you pakis may have a chance, a very slim one... if you stop following the bedouins and their mediaval ``traditions``, you may have a chance to make it... atleast you guys have some precedence - the guy who founded aligarh muslim university... or even that jacka## Iqbal who had some good ideas on getting muslims educated and modernised... or even jinnah, pubh who was secular-educated...

So stop being slaves to bedouinism... follow your own traditions, your own leaders... f****d as they are - they are still better than anything bedouins have on offer... :)

[...I think what we need to do is change the madrassah syllabus;....We need to add to it a study of the English language, physics, chemistry, biology, and of Western philosophy and of the philosophy of science and of history. ...]

Or you can put lipstick on the pig and pass it off as a horse... :)

Somethings can be reformed or tuned to fit the changing needs, somethings just have to discarded... they can not be reformed... Madrassa is one such thing... it has to be completely discarded and replaced with secular educational facilities...