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Swati Pandey

Swati Pandey is a research associate of the New America Foundation.

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“The Madrassa Myth"

by Peter Bergen, Swati Pandey

28 June 2005

The importance of madrassas in graduating terrorists is one of the greatest assumptions of the war on terrorism. Statements by Colin Powell or Donald Rumsfeld backed this theory. Yet, while these schools may breed fundamentalists, they do not teach the technical skills to be a terrorist. (...)