In an interview with the BBC, the group's leader, Mohammed Yusuf, said such education "spoils the belief in one God"...There are prominent Islamic preachers who have seen and understood that the present Western-style education is mixed with issues that run contrary to our beliefs in Islam," he said. "Like rain. We believe it is a creation of God rather than an evaporation caused by the sun that condenses and becomes rain.
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