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                    [Summary] => A ranking Philippine National Police (PNP) official appealed to his fellow Muslims yesterday to justify the meaning of "martyrdom" in the Koran.


Senior Superintendent Sukarno Ikbala, head of the PNP-Task Force Salaam, said Muslim leaders — or Ulamas — must educate the faithful on the true meaning of the word since it is being misused by extremists to justify terrorism.


While the dictionary defines martyrdom as the suffering and death of a martyr, Ikbala said extremist groups have their own interpretation of the word. 


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                    [Title] => ‘Hire more Madaris teachers in ARMM’
                    [Summary] => MARAWI CITY — The 1,300-member Ulama League of the Philippines, whose members were mostly trained in Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, urged President Arroyo the other day to create 2,000 more teaching positions in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to accommodate qualified Islamic theologians for Madaris classes.


The request was contained in a two-page resolution passed during the three-day congress and submitted to President Arroyo during the closing ceremony here the other day.


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                    [Title] => Muslim schools training ground for students on terrorism
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The official, who asked not to be named, said that students in these schools are being trained on guerrilla warfare to fight against government forces. These learning institutions are known as "Madaris" schools. 


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Under the Organic Act for Muslim Mindanao, the regional government is supposed to promote religious and cultural solidarity among the region’s grassroots communities through the preservation of religious and traditional means of peace-building.


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PNP asks Muslim leaders: Define martyrdom

By Evelyn Macairan | May 31, 2004 - 12:00am

A ranking Philippine National Police (PNP) official appealed to his fellow Muslims yesterday to justify the meaning of "martyrdom" in the Koran. Senior Superintendent Sukarno Ikbala, head of the PNP-Task...

Headlines

‘Hire more Madaris teachers in ARMM’

July 29, 2002 - 12:00am

MARAWI CITY — The 1,300-member Ulama League of the Philippines, whose members were mostly trained in Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, urged President Arroyo the other day to create 2,000 more teaching positions...

Nation

Ulamas gather for peace

By John Unson | July 26, 2002 - 12:00am

MARAWI CITY — More than a thousand foreign-trained Islamic theologians (ulamas) from all over Mindanao opened yesterday their three-day congress here ...

Nation

Education solution to poverty & terrorism

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | January 26, 2002 - 12:00am

Some quarters have expressed the fear the Madaris or Muslim learning institutions in Mindanao may have been penetrated by Islamic terrorist groups. To begin with, we want to make it clear that the problem with terrorism...

Opinion

Muslim schools training ground for students on terrorism

By Sheila Crisostomo | January 23, 2002 - 12:00am

Several private Muslim schools in Mindanao are being used by terrorist groups to indoctrinate students on their ideologies, a senior government official said yesterday. The official, who asked not to be named, said...

Nation

Misuari-led ARMM fails to harness unique educational system

By John Unson | October 16, 2000 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Had education officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao only harnessed the ARMM government’s unique Madaris educational system, the region could have long been a bastion of peace,...

Nation