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Really? I wonder. Consider the experience of Saudi deprogrammers of jihad extremists:Considering that Arab countries are beset by terrorism as well, thinking that somehow learning Arabic will make people immune to extremism is quite naive to say the least. The core of the problem is the monopolization of religion that has been done by the Mullahs and unless the government starts controlling them and keeping check on whats being taught at madrassas, the problem simply wont fade away no matter how many fancy foreign language programs are introduced.
...The idea that there’s a slippery slope from jihad to takfir comes up regularly in discussions with Saudi clerics.
“Some of our young people don’t listen to the right scholars,” Jilani told me. “First they start to think that they have the right to go to jihad at any time. After that, they start to think that we have the right to kill any non-Muslim.
“Then they start to say that our leaders are kuffar, infidels,” the sheik continued. “After that they start to say that our scholars, too, are kuffar. Before long, they’ve declared war against the whole world.”
“Some of our young people don’t listen to the right scholars,” Jilani told me. “First they start to think that they have the right to go to jihad at any time. After that, they start to think that we have the right to kill any non-Muslim.
“Then they start to say that our leaders are kuffar, infidels,” the sheik continued. “After that they start to say that our scholars, too, are kuffar. Before long, they’ve declared war against the whole world.”
There is no easy way, I guess, to study Arabic without studying the Koran. When everyone can be their own Koran scholar, will that really increase terrorism or decrease it? In the West the printing press made the Bible more accessible to the masses, yet it also sparked civil and international wars between Reformed Christians and Roman Catholics.
The West eventually "solved" its religion problem by de-powering religious organizations and education in favor of embracing the universal human values of the Enlightenment. Does the West's experience hold any lessons for Pakistanis?