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October 24, 2003
Funding madradssas
As I've been surfing around this evening, I've seen a few references made to one of the suggestions in the Rumsfield memo:
Should we create a private foundation to entice radical madradssas to a more moderate course? What else should we be considering?While Rumsfeld's suggestion is for a private foundation to fund these madradssas, I've seen numerous references in the blogosphere to the US funding them.
If a truly private foundation, that received no money at all from the US government, wanted to set up these schools as an alternative to the more radical ones currently in place, in the hopes that they might be able to attract students and thus prevent them from being given a fundamentalist Islamacist education and potentially turned into terrorists, that would be a great idea I think. I have a serious problem, however, with the idea of the US government funding such schools.
While the idea behind the funding might be to try and prevent the creation of terrorists, it would be the direct government funding of a religious institution. Imagine if someone in the government was wanting tax dollars to go to funding Christian schools, using the justification that teaching children Christian values would help reduce the crime rate (since the general perception is that Christians would be less likely to commit crimes). In fact, if the government were to start funding madradssas with the goal of using them to reduce the number of potential terrorists, I can almost guarantee you that someone would start trying to use the parallel justification of "crime prevention" to sneak governmental funding of Christian schools through.
Personally, I think the idea of setting up moderate madradssas might not be a bad idea and could be worth a try. But we need to make sure that if it gets turned into an actual project, it's being funding by private individuals and/or corporations, and not by our tax dollars.
Posted by thorswitch at October 24, 2003 07:21 AM
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