tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495100.post2050743447875402628..comments2024-01-29T17:58:00.974-05:00Comments on Galileo Blogs: Galileo Blogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495100.post-85871082906102285632007-01-06T16:59:00.000-05:002007-01-06T16:59:00.000-05:00Burgess,
Thank you for the historical background a...Burgess,<br />Thank you for the historical background and greater insight into the madrassa. How ironic the historical symmetry between the Dominican friary schools that were formed to whip up enthusiasm for the Crusades against the Muslims, and today's maddrassa that are being used by the Muslims to whip up enthusiasm for the jihad against the West.<br /><br />God save us from religion!! (lol)Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495100.post-30626367956414905982007-01-05T23:24:00.000-05:002007-01-05T23:24:00.000-05:00Galileo Blogs says: "... madrassah schools ..."
S...Galileo Blogs says: "... madrassah schools ..."<br /><br />Strictly speaking, this phrase is redundant. A madrassa (variously transliterated into English spelling) *is* a school, specifically a college in which the teachers teach Islamic law and related subjects but not what traditional Muslims called "foreign sciences."<br /><br />My Arabic is very crude, but I can suggest a way to remember the meaning of *madrassa*.<br /><br />In Arabic words typically, the ma- means "place where." And -drassa is a form of the root word *darasa*, which means "to study." So a *madrassa* is a place where study is done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495100.post-23889314987494139522007-01-05T23:12:00.000-05:002007-01-05T23:12:00.000-05:00Galileo Blog says: "Why does the U.S. today minimi...Galileo Blog says: "Why does the U.S. today minimize and downplay the river of Saudi money that finances madrassah schools that ideologically equip the terrorist vanguard?"<br /><br />The Islamic colleges, the madrassas (variously spelled in English), provide both philosophical/theological and ideological armament for the Islamo-fascist movement against the West.<br /><br />For comparison, consider the Dominican friars in Latin-Christian Europe in the 1200s. As the "preaching friars," the Dominicans were employed by the Church to stir up support for crusades against all the enemies of the Church. The Dominicans had their own university-level schools. Their purpose was to philosophically, theologically, and ideologically arm and justify crusaders and those who supported them. (Those crusades, by the way, were led more against other Christians -- "heretics" and schismatics -- than against Muslim enemies.)<br /><br />In some ways, the parallels between the madrassas and the Dominican friary schools are striking. However, consider the contrasts too. For example, the Dominicans officially incorporated Aristotle's works into their studies. The foremost Dominican teacher was Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274); his mentor, Albert the Great (1193-1280), was an admirer of Aristotle and a nascent scientist fascinated with the world around him. (Of course, both Thomas and Albert were true Christians and, in part, mystics.)<br /><br />Can you imagine such men or such a curriculum in the typical madrassa that supports Islamo-fascists? Can you imagine the government of Saudi Arabia giving financial aid to schools that do have such a curriculum?<br /><br />For an even more revealing contrast -- of Islamic culture and Christian culture today -- try to imagine the graduates of U. S. Catholic seminaries or Southern Baptist colleges pouring into the streets and swearing before God to take up arms for their religion.<br /><br />I can't imagine such a thing -- yet. But it may be coming within another generation or two. The U. S. welfare state's long practice at appeasement of Muslims overseas may be applied to appeasing Christian zealots at home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com