Neoliberalism and Madrassas: An Unholy Connection

Zeemax sahib,

Why dont u reproduce the whole text in UP? Thanks in advance.

Regards

zee

It's NOT as if we have dealt with your ilk, the talibans before... in kashmir, for example... the kill rate was always over-whelingly in favor of our troops... rarely ever jihadis captured indian soldiers... jihadis used to run away into nearby mosques in the hope that indian army will hesitate to attack a place of worship... but mostly they used to get blasted to pieces, alongwith mosques and bedouin books...

You go ahead and fight your kanjaroons, that's a fight you may have a chance to win... you have no chance against kafirs... :)

*It's NOT as if we have NOT dealt with your ilk, the talibans before*

Dear Mahboob,

You present data which is consistent with your theory. This is a nice first step. As others have pointed out, presenting data which is consistent with your theory is not sufficiently convincing. As a next step, you may want to collect some data to deal with the counter-factual. Here is what you can do:

Take two districts in a state (this controls for a lot of heterogeneity), such that they have a different growth of public funding for schools. It would be nice to see whether the growth of madrassas are consistent with your story.

Doing the above exercise across states may give you some idea about the influence of culture etc. that some interactors have been talking about.

These exercises need inter-temporal data though.

No-matter how much data you use, you can never "prove" your point. However, with more careful data analysis you will be more and more convincing.

Mahboob:

Another point. You have a static cross section of income and schools. I would guess that the difference between madrassas and public school "choice" is not significant for "middle income" groups. If so, then it is quite interesting on its own and could point at some ideology based choices. Of course, there is too little data for this long shot.

Regards.

Thank you Ahmar for the article.

For YLH the jihadis are due to india and teh indian whabism. Then there is role of Gandhi who spread hatred and the jihadis picked it up from him. According to YLH, the only books read in madrassas are koran and gandhis "my experiments with truth".

For tahmed, the jihadis are due to the US and the afghan war.

For zeemax, teh jihadis are due to Zia.

Now you have added the WB and the IMF to thsi list.

When will any pakistani say that the jihadis are due to pakistani policies and assume responsibility.

And there would be no Pakistan