Premier Warns of Secret ‘Extremist’ Schools
“Extremist” underground Islamic schools are drawing more than 300,000 young students across Yemen, the country’s prime minister said.
Prime Minister Abdul-Kadir Ba Jamal warned that the religious education promoting the ideas of Wahhabism, a strict interpretation of Islam, “will bring a disaster to Yemen and this generation.”
He promised to eliminate the schools, which he estimated numbered about 4,000 and drew about 330,000 students.
“We are not against the religious education ... but we are against extremism,” he said in a speech to teachers and Education Ministry officials.
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