Re the Pakistanian “Red Mosque” battle, from Dan Pipes:

The mosque then sent some of its thousands of madrassa students to serve as a morals police force in Islamabad, to enforce a Taliban-style regime locally with the ultimate goal of spreading it countrywide. Students closed barbershops, occupied a children’s library, pillaged music and video stores, attacked alleged brothels and tortured the alleged madams. They even kidnapped police officers…
students from the mosque, some masked and armed, rushed a police checkpoint, ransacked nearby government ministries, and set cars on fire, leaving 16 dead.This confrontation with the government [is] aimed at nothing less than overthrowing it…
The Red Mosque model offers Islamists a bold tactic…

In which extremist clerics have designated Muslim students as frontline fighters – and fodder. The disease within many madrassas worldwide must be eradicated. The Red Mosque model can no longer be tolerated.