Re: Who Is Responsible For Present Day Jehadi Culture?
I agree the deobandi approach is conservative in nature and often militant. However the growth in militant madrassah education stems from the 1980's. I posted Tariq Rehmans research on it sometime back. To my knowledge there were only 3 madrassahs in NWFP as late as the early 70's.
Writers like Kathy Gannon have also written in her book of the curriculum that children in Afghan refugee camps were taught and how (with American support) Afghan secularists and nationalists were sidelined.
It's a classic frankenstein story; throw in a state which allowed a vaccum to develop in education and healthcare, marginalised and discredited political parties and you have a disastrous mix.