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Definition of "madrassas" []

  • Plural form of madrassa. (noun)

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  • "The MPGB revealed that up to 40 per cent of teachers in madrassas hit or scold their children and that between 15 and 20 cases of sex abuse occur each year."
  • "But the principle criticism of madrassas is that many of them give a primarily religious education, graduating students with very little secular education."
  • "A good op-ed piece from the NY Times, confirming earlier reports that terrorism doesn't spring from poverty or from being educated in madrassas; rather, most terrorists who have struck Western targets in recent years are quite well educated, many in Western universities."
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