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11 April 2010
Growth of Islamism
In the latest edition of Annals Australasia we find the following:
Sources in India, where Muslim were a minority, reported
that the construction in that country of new madresas [Koranic schools] from
1980 to 2000, paid for by the Saudis and Kuwaitis, far exceeded the number
built over eight centuries of Islamic rule. On the Indian frontier with
Nepal, 384 had opened on the Indian side and 195 in Nepal. On Indian
territory at the Bangladesh border, 208 had been built. In the Indian state
of West Bengal, 238 medresas were founded between 1977 and 2002. The
communist government of West Bengal spent $30 million for medresas in 2001,
and nothing on Hindu religious education.
The Two Faces of Islam, Stephen Schwartz, Anchor
Books, 2003, p. 2000
Annals Australasia
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