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Making progress on 'An End to Evil', Scary Books 101.

On the ideological front, Frum and Perle urge a battle against radical Islam, support for moderate Muslims and, in particular, the promotion of women's rights. They urge zero tolerance for the Saudi export of fundamentalism, and propose financing progressive and modern Islamic education as an alternative to MADRASSAS. Above all, they want to make a success of Iraqi democracy.
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Secular society is the worst possible thing because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, precisely those traits that may promote dissent and turn people away from the particular agenda of a given government.

Thus governments as well as the neocons that control this administration promote religion as absolutely essential in order to impose their program upon the masses.

If a particular religion is not conducive to the needs of the state and cannot for whatever reason be neatly dispatched the seeds of a state inspired evolution are planted.
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Any religion can be subjected to a forced evolution at the whim of the state. Many times the faithful will not be cognizant of what it taking place.

-Am

US focussing on madrassas

By Khalid Hasan

December 3, 2004

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s education reforms, which really mean modernising and de-radicalising the existing madrassas (Islamic seminaries), will now remain under sharp and direct American focus following the passage of a bill through both houses of Congress on 20 November.

Under the new law, the Secretary of State is required to report to the federal legislature the progress of education reform in Pakistan. HR 4818, entitled Foreign Operations, Export Financing, Related Programmes Appropriations Act 2005 makes it obligatory for US Secretary of State to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the Act, the strategy of the Government of Pakistan to implement education reform in Pakistan, and the strategy of the Government of the United States to assist Pakistan to achieve that objective.

The administration will also be required now to provide information on the amount of funding, “obligated and expended by the Government of Pakistan and the Government of the United States, respectively, for education reform in Pakistan, since January 1, 2002; expected to be provided by the Government of Pakistan and the Government of the United States, respectively, for education reform in Pakistan, including any assistance to be provided by the United States pursuant to the commitment of President Bush to provide $3,000,000,000 in assistance to Pakistan during fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2009; and discussing progress made in achieving education reform in Pakistan since January 1, 2002.”

Pakistan’s progress in terms of educational reforms will be overseen by made by the Committees on Appropriations and International Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Relations of the Senate. The new law defines “education reform” as including “efforts to expand and improve the secular education system in Pakistan, and to develop and utilise a moderate curriculum for private religious schools in Pakistan.”

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-12-2004_pg1_6