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Most people here speak English as a first language and you're making the choice to switch to the foreign word here for a reason.
Lots of foreign words in the English language. No reason to be afraid of them.
I think you are doing it to make it sound more like the Taliban for whom the word "madrasa" (and not "madaris", but somehow you wanted the plural form) specifically means religious schools that indoctrinate children into political Islam. No one else tends to use the word to mean otherwise. Hamas doesn't do that kind of stuff. Basically, education in Gaza is on par with the rest of the world. They ~~have~~ had excellent universities, they ~~have~~ had excellent medical centers that had to specialize in very specific types of injuries (thanks Israel!). The UNRWA school offer a normal education like any other in the Middle East (Arabic, English, Math, Science, and so on). There is nothing "madrasa" about it. And yet you chose to use that word.
Now, I don't want to go around accusing, I just can't help but think, why did this person choose to use a Arabic variety of the word "school" to describe Gazan schools and education? Is it just, *"omg look at me I speak Arabic, yalla bro!" or is it something else?
You are very much not off target with your suspicions about this account's motivations. And it's not to show off their familiarity with Arabic.
This both isn't one and I don't for a moment believe you're using it in the name of multiculturalism. You're a reliable apologist for Israel and want to make "schools" sound like something scary.
Really? The word madrasa is scary to you? Whatever
You are very disingenuous.