There’s a disturbing article in the weekend’s Financial Times about some of the Islamic schooling on offer in Indonesia. Writing about the Al-Mukmin boarding school, the FT’s writer notes “[its] students and teachers are quick to leap to its defence. The school’s gruelling 3.30am to 10pm schedule and its curriculum – 60 per cent of which is dedicated to Islamic studies – are meant only to build good Muslims, they argue.”

The word they are looking for is brainwashing.