![]() ![]() ![]() The present study is a modest attempt to redress the jaundiced perspectives found in writings which deal with Islamic education in Southeast Asia in the GWOT era. Many Western-based accounts attribute a vital role to religious schools in spreading Islamist ideology and maintaining radical nexuses. As a long term measure, the sphere of education has emerged as the most crucial battleground in the endeavour to foster democratic development, political pluralism, religious tolerance and respect for human rights in the Muslim world. The USA’s conduct of GWOT has been subjected to various censures by analysts for being over-militaristic, neglecting ideological warfare and uncritically aggregating disparate trends of terrorism. The millennial advent of a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), pursued by the United States of America (USA) in the wake of devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 (hereafter 9/11), cast gloom on the prospects of inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in an increasingly interdependent world. ![]()
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