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Muslim Leaders Move to Remove Terrorism Tag From Schools

The Nation (Nairobi)
NEWS
September 19, 2006
Posted to the web September 19, 2006

By Nation Correspondent
Nairobi
Muslim leaders have agreed to streamline the madrassa system of education to
dispel the feeling that the schools are a breeding ground for terrorists. This
will be done through a national Muslim education policy, they said yesterday.
Previous government efforts to regulate the system hit a snag when they raised
objections, especially after the bombing in 1998 of the US embassy in Nairobi
and the 2002 attack on a tourist hotel at Kikambala.
The leaders claimed that they had not been consulted, and that the Government
had been forced by the American government to take action.
After an education meeting in Mombasa over the weekend, the leaders drawn from
all the Islamic organisations in the country, agreed to push for the
entrenchment of the policy in the Education Act.
They would also fight for government recognition.
The workshop was sponsored and organised by Muslims Education and Development
Agenda Network (Medan).


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