Madrasas Slowly Warm to Computers

Wired is carrying an interesting report on the modernisation of Madrasas in Pakistan.

"These madrasas have been forced by the government to appear modern," said Mohammed Riaz Durrani, an Islamic academic. "The police have been raiding madrasas on the pretext of searching for militants. Some madrasas don't want to be harassed. So they are toeing the government line of modernizing. What better way to do it than say you are teaching computers?"

"There will be no compromise on the content of Islamic education," Ashrafia's principal, S.M. Rafia, said. "If we make too many drastic changes too often, it will be an admission that something was wrong. And we would like to believe that nothing was ever wrong with the madrasas."

Now we're going to being seeing technically competent terrorists? *Al Qaeda's haxxor division*