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School-jail in the desert

Mahajirines: yesterday "Allah's migrant", today with chains on their feet. It fell to them the role to Islamise the people. Too many in a country in crisis, their future is incertain. The word "mahajirin" means emigrating, from "mahajir", the emigrant. These emigrants left at one time Makkah for Medina in Saudi Arabia. The Mahajirines went there to study the Quran. Thus, the "mahajir" is the student in theology and the preacher of Islam. The word has another meaning, more recent: beggar. The fact dates back for some years in Chad. The students of these Quranic schools with Sudanese and Saudi instigations are more and more numerous. These two countries with the unbending Islam finance those madrassas. Some children are chained up when they disobey, do not want to learn the Quran or attempt to flee.

Near Abéché. Waddaï, Chad – 2005

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