New Research Reveals Extremist Views in Unregistered Madrasas

A new study findings reveals extremist views with the students of unregistered religious schools in Afghanistan.

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) in a new research which is conducted in 50 unregistered religious schools in ten provinces of Afghanistan has found extremist view with the students of these schools.

The researchers have conducted interviews with 305 students in which 78 percent of the students were against the suicide attacks, but the other 17 percent of the students were admiring suicide attacks especially over foreigners in Afghanistan.

80 percent of the students were against suicide attacks over the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

In addition, 60 percent of the students were calling Taliban slaves and only three percent were supporting the Taliban insurgent group.

The report says that 70 percent of the students have warned to stand against the government of Afghanistan if the government continues to neglect religious scholars.

Mohammad Mohaqeq an AISS researcher said,” If the government fails to pay attention to these schools; it will be dangerous for the country”.

In another part of the report it reveals that unregistered religious schools are more affected by the foreign countries.

According to the report 85 percent of the students and their teachers have supported the idea of working women outside the country while the poll shows that 33 percent of them are against the women political participation in the society and 50 percent are against democracy calling it a foreign phenomenon.

Abdul Ahad Mohammadi, another researcher who was involved in this research said,” Our main concern is those students who travels abroad the country for religious studies and returns back to Afghanistan as teachers”.

About 13,000 religious schools recorded in Afghanistan, most of them are either unregistered or the government does not have any control over the educational and financial system of these schools.

Reportedly a number of these schools are terrorist hubs where they learn terrorist activities and the government must eliminate these terrorist schools before they treat the people and the system.