{"id":350,"date":"2007-06-12T23:25:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/12\/imam_training_and_terrorism"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:59:10","slug":"imam_training_and_terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/12\/imam_training_and_terrorism","title":{"rendered":"Imam training and terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"'Imams are not the solution to terrorism' | eG weekly | EducationGuardian.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/story\/0,,2100264,00.html\">&#39;Imams are not the solution to terrorism&#39; &#8211; Education Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article which appeared in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em> Education supplement, featuring an interview with Shaikh Ibrahim Mogra, on why government funding for imam training may have no real effect on fighting terrorism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&quot;The problem is not imams and their countries of origin,&quot; says Mogra. &quot;The tiny proportion of extremists usually have nothing to do with imams. Anyway, there is no guarantee that just because an imam is trained in the UK, he won&#39;t suddenly flip. Likewise, foreign imams are not necessarily extremists. The majority of imams are trained in the UK and in the next 20 years 90% will be British graduates. But there will always be a need for an expert from abroad.&quot;<br \/>\nMona Siddiqui, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Glasgow, says it is wrong to assume imams are the buffer between extreme Islam and secular education. &quot;People who are involved in extremism will not usually involve their imam,&quot; she says. &quot;Imams are not the solution to the problem of terrorism.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Imams are not the solution to terrorism&#39; &#8211; Education Guardian An article which appeared in today&#39;s Guardian Education supplement, featuring an interview with Shaikh Ibrahim Mogra, on why government funding for imam training may&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42040,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/42040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}