Why in the Hell are we building Religious Schools?
GOVERNOR, KHOST RESIDENTS CELEBRATE START OF MADRASSA PROJECT
Release Date: 4/7/2006
Release Number: 06-04-07PJ
Description: KHOST, Afghanistan — Soldiers from Task Force Wolfpack joined provincial Gov. Marijadeen Patan and Khost residents in celebrating the start of reconstruction of the largest religious school in the province with a ribbon-cutting ceremony here March 25.
Army Capt. Jeff Hembree, a Civil Affairs Team leader with the Phoenix-based 492nd Civil Affairs Battalion, arranged $85,000 in funding to rebuild the Matachena Madrassa, which was damaged during fighting between Taliban and Coalition forces in 2001.
Hembree and members of his team, which supports Task Force Wolfpack, took an interest in the madrassa after a local religious leader, Mawlawi Izharudin, brought its condition to their attention. The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Leahy War Victims Fund provided funding for the project.
Izharudin said he will help find qualified teachers for the madrassa – one of 120 in the province – and help develop a curriculum that incorporates computer technology.
“Not only will the students of this establishment become teachers in this and the other madrassas of Khost, but they will also become imams in the many mosques of the province,” Izharudin said. “Not only Khost, but the whole country will benefit from the effects of this facility as our graduates move to work in the outlying provinces as well.”
Also during the ceremony, Patan expressed his hope that the people of Khost will reject terrorist groups and the violence they bring.
“We will strive to teach good values and focus on the spiritual side of Islam,” he promised.
Release Date: 4/7/2006
Release Number: 06-04-07PJ
Description: KHOST, Afghanistan — Soldiers from Task Force Wolfpack joined provincial Gov. Marijadeen Patan and Khost residents in celebrating the start of reconstruction of the largest religious school in the province with a ribbon-cutting ceremony here March 25.
Army Capt. Jeff Hembree, a Civil Affairs Team leader with the Phoenix-based 492nd Civil Affairs Battalion, arranged $85,000 in funding to rebuild the Matachena Madrassa, which was damaged during fighting between Taliban and Coalition forces in 2001.
Hembree and members of his team, which supports Task Force Wolfpack, took an interest in the madrassa after a local religious leader, Mawlawi Izharudin, brought its condition to their attention. The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Leahy War Victims Fund provided funding for the project.
Izharudin said he will help find qualified teachers for the madrassa – one of 120 in the province – and help develop a curriculum that incorporates computer technology.
“Not only will the students of this establishment become teachers in this and the other madrassas of Khost, but they will also become imams in the many mosques of the province,” Izharudin said. “Not only Khost, but the whole country will benefit from the effects of this facility as our graduates move to work in the outlying provinces as well.”
Also during the ceremony, Patan expressed his hope that the people of Khost will reject terrorist groups and the violence they bring.
“We will strive to teach good values and focus on the spiritual side of Islam,” he promised.
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