Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Wednesday the government was set to launch a long-delayed plan to monitor Islamic seminaries, which have often been accused of breeding religious extremists. Hayat told Reuters that a new law to monitor and regulate the seminaries, or madrassahs, would be put before cabinet in about a month. âThe policy is aimed at monitoring the activities of these madrassahs, of these organisations, keeping a watch on their performance,â Hayat said. Hayat said the vast majority of the madrassahs were just educational institutions. They teach mostly Islam, some rudimentary mathematics and other sciences. âWe have no problem with them. The problem arises with a few madrassahs,â he said.
| The question is whether they'll do anything about them. And I'd dispute that the problem arises only with a few. Guess it depends on your definition of "problem," eh? |
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