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Inside Asia's madrassas

Name: Inside Asia's madrassas
Uploaded: 2015-10-30T01:52:16.446Z
Duration: 5 min 44 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Are south Asia’s Islamic schools causing a surge in extremism?

The Islamic seminary at Deoband in north India has been a centre of Sunni puritanism for 150 years, but in recent years the school's followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been accused of terrorist atrocities in the name of Islam. The FT's Victor Mallet reports.

October 30, 2015

Produced by Victor Mallet and Jyotsna Singh. Filmed by Victor Mallet. Edited by Paolo Pascual.