Word: siddiqui
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...come to see where we make the bombs," Maulana (teacher) Adil Siddiqui, said to a teenager who asked who I was. Siddiqui was a broadcaster with All-India Radio, the state radio, until he retired to this seminary to escape the world. This seminary is Dar-ul-uloom, or the place of knowledge, home to 3,500 boys and young men, mostly from poor families, in the Indian farming town of Deoband. It is also the spiritual home of the particular brand of Islam practiced by the Taliban...