religious training vs academia

"Islamic studies" should not be Muslim seminaries

I disagree with the role of the secular Western university being the site of training imams.  I am aware that all the Ivy League schools in the United States were originally founded by the British crown as theological schools to train colonial clergymen.  I know that the modern secular university owes its roots and origins to the Christian monastery and cathedral schools of medieval, feudal Western Europe.  I acknowledge that graduation robes are derived from clerical vestments, however, should the secular university be the site of Muslim de facto seminaries?  Or should the

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