Our website now has a copy of my tribute to Nobel prize winning eocnomist Milton Friedman in which I at the application of his ideas on choice and education to the issue of Muslim madrasas.
This may seem like an odd pairing of topics. Milton Friedman was an intellectual who
championed freedom of choice and, if one goes by the analysis on Fox News, madrasas
are kindergartens for terrorism. Of course if you believe Fox News, you also believe that
Barack Obama attended a terrorist kindergarten. In reality, “madrasa†is an Arabic word
that simply means “school†any kind of school, charter school, government school,
private school, or religious school. When I was a youth attending the Durkee Street
elementary school in Pennsylvania, my Arab-speaking parents would inform anyone who
asked of my whereabouts that I was “at the madrasa.†No doubt everyone in this room
attended a madrasa.
But there is more to the story than pathetic Fox propaganda. To the contrary the classical
madrasa demonstrates the reality that underlies Friedman’s ideas and the causes of the
problems with certain madrasas today can also be explained with the aid of some of
Friedman’s ideas.
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