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Somalia's schools may be root of Islamist movement there.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MOGADISHU, Somalia _ Some say Islamic extremists are at work in Somalia's schools preparing a new generation of terrorists. But at least on the surface, the Amin Noor Islamic School appears as a picture of innocence-with only the briefest of hints that all may not be so secular as proclaimed.
Teenage students _ the girls dressed in green scarves and the boys wearing white shirts _ giggle at foreign visitors. The illustrations on the walls depict the anatomy of farm animals, not diagrams of bombs.
The bearded headmaster, Mohammed Ahmed, unhappy about insinuations that Somalia's Koranic schools are teaching a dangerous strain of Islamic radicalism, opened the doors to demonstrate otherwise. He denied the school received aid from Arab nations known to support hardline Islamic causes.
"We teach regular subjects like English, Arabic, math, arts and science," he said.
But the underlying sympathies among the 700 students here are not so secular. While visitors were given a recent tour of the classrooms, two ...
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