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Longer Saudi Arabia Is Left to Exist, Closer A Nuclear Terrorist Act Comes
Authorities continue to systematically suppress, or fail to protect, the rights of fourteen million Saudi women and girls, eight million foreign workers, and some two million Shia. Thousands of people have received unfair trials or were subject to arbitrary detention. Curbs on freedom of association, expression, and movement, as well as a pervasive lack of official accountability, remain serious concerns. In May the government cancelled scheduled municipal elections.- HRW
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
American Chronicle, February 14, 2010
Saudi Arabia is not a state; it is a factory of inhuman hatred, evil rancor, vulgar behaviour, deep ignorance, compact inanity, and utter bestialization of the human beings who happen to live there. Never ever in the World History has the Humankind testified to such an ulcerous enmity of the Knowledge, Science, Art and Philosophy. Yet, the territory presently occupied by Saudi Arabia was not always the realm of the utmost barbarism. Degradation and decay came with the gradual rise and prevalence of the Hanbal pseudo-Muslim school of jurisprudence, the pathetic theological system of Ibn Taimiya, and the Satanic cult of Abdel Wahhab – a long historical development that took almost 10 centuries to be completed.
Acting against the interests of their own citizens in the long run, the calamitous Freemasonic regimes of England and France early realized the decadence of the Ottoman Empire and its reasons, namely the predominance of the aforementioned layers of Islamic alteration. With their premeditated, anti-Ottoman and anti-Turkish acts, they averted the possibility of an Islamic Renaissance that would sweep away the aforementioned ignorance and barbarism. And with their intentional detachment of the territory presently occupied by Saudi Arabia from Turkey, they promoted to local power the main factor of this barbarism: the incestuous family of the Wahhabi Saudi tribe.
They further facilitated the expansion and the diffusion of this barbaric pseudo-version of Islam throughout the vast lands inhabited by Muslims that the colonial powers had taken good care to first occupy and then terrorize.
Their plan is evil and easy to understand: by imposing a debilitated, demented, barbaric and idiotic doctrine as Islam, and by eliminating all forms of authentic Islam preserved down to our times from Mali to Yemen and from Somalia to Indonesia, they create a fake and virtually impotent adversary that they plan to effectively eliminate. And they imagine that in this way they will eliminate Islam once and forever. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Islam, Middle East, Middle East Report, Monotheistic Religions, News Articles, Opinion, Recent Posts on February 15, 2010 - א' אדר תש"ע at 12:00 pm
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School Support Lacking for Emotional, Behavioral Issues
By Health News Digest, Jan 20, 2010
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich.—School psychologists, counselors and social workers are often the first line of support for children with behavioral, emotional or family problems. Problems can range from attention deficit disorder and homelessness to depression and bullying all of which can make academic success a challenge.
The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked nearly 1,100 parents across the United States to grade their children’s public schools on how well they support children with behavioral, emotional or family problems.
Thirty-seven percent of parents gave primary schools an A for support for children with ADHD and other behavioral problems, and 34 percent gave an A for support for children with emotional or family problems. Twenty-two percent of parents gave secondary schools an A for support for children with behavioral, emotional or family problems.
In contrast, for overall education 52 percent of parents gave primary schools an A and 38 percent of parents gave secondary schools an A.
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Mental Health, News Articles, Recent Posts, Special Education on January 21, 2010 - ו' שבט תש"ע at 4:36 am
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A Mideast Bond, Stitched of Pain and Healing
JERUSALEM — He can be impulsive. She has a touch of bossiness. Next-door neighbors for nearly a year, they talk, watch television and explore the world together, wandering into each other’s homes without a second thought. She likes his mother’s eggplant dish. He likes her father’s rice and lamb.
Friendship often starts with proximity, but Orel and Marya, both 8, have been thrust together in a way few elsewhere have. Their playground is a hospital corridor. He is an Israeli Jew severely wounded by a Hamas rocket. She is a Palestinian Muslim from Gaza paralyzed by an Israeli missile. Someone forgot to tell them that they are enemies.
“He’s a naughty boy,” Marya likes to say of Orel with an appreciative smile when he gets a little wild.
When Orel arrived here a year ago, he could not hear, see, talk or walk. Now he does them all haltingly. Half his brain is gone. Doctors were deeply pessimistic about his survival. Today they are amazed at his progress although unclear how much more can be made.
Marya’s spinal cord was broken at the neck and she can move only her head. Smart, sunny and strong-willed, she moves her wheelchair by pushing a button with her chin. Nothing escapes her gaze. She knows that Orel is starting to prefer boys as playmates and she makes room. But their bond remains strong. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Islam, Judaism, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts, Special Education on December 31, 2009 - י"ד טבת תש"ע at 6:46 pm
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Human-Chimp Gene Comparison Hints at Roots of Language
By comparing how a gene critical for language works in humans and chimpanzees, researchers have identified an entire network of genes involved in the incredible linguistic powers of Homo sapiens.
The findings don’t explain how language functions at the biological level, or exactly what changes were needed to put an otherwise unremarkable monkey on its chattering, Earth-dominating trajectory. But they do give researchers a foundation for investigating these questions.
“We know a fair amount about the brain structures involved in speech and language, but we know very little about how that evolved, or how genes contribute to that,” said Daniel Geschwind, a University of California, Los Angeles neurogeneticist.
The target of Geschwind’s analysis was FOXP2, a gene that rose to scientific prominence during the study of a London-based family afflicted by hereditary speech disorders. Of the extended family’s 30 members, one-half have severe linguistic deficiencies, as well as a FOXP2 mutation. Those who don’t have the mutation are able to speak normally.
That connection was revealed in 2001, and subsequent research has shown FOXP2 to be play a role not only in acquiring grammar and syntax, but in developing motor skills and helping brain cells form new connections. Studies also suggested FOXP2 had mutated rapidly in the Homo sapiens lineage, and worked differently in humans than in chimpanzees, our closest genetic relative.
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Evolutionary Biology, Science, Special Education on November 13, 2009 - כ"ו חשון תש"ע at 3:42 am
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Good Vision Keeps Success In Sight For Children
Health News Digest, Sep 15, 2009
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Making sure children get regular, comprehensive eye exams is a key way that parents can identify treatable problems early and help kids achieve their greatest potential-in the classroom, at home and in sports.
Studies show that around 60 percent of children who have been identified as problem learners actually suffer from undetected vision problems and may mistakenly be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the American Optometric Association.
For many children, their only regular vision assessment is a school screening; however, simple screenings are meant to indicate a potential need for further evaluation, not to diagnose or treat a problem. According to The Vision Council, recent studies estimate that 40 to 67 percent of children identified with vision problems during school screenings do not receive the recommended follow-up care by an eye care professional. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Health Sciences, Recent Posts on September 15, 2009 - כ"ו אלול תשס"ט at 1:34 pm
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September is Back to School Time and ADHD Awareness Month
By Carrie Mulherin – Vice President, BioBehavioral Diagnostics
Health News Digest, Aug 26, 2009
What is ADHD?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common condition of the brain that makes it difficult to control behavior. Everybody knows someone with ADHD. It affects approximately 9.5 million school-aged boys and girls, adolescents and adults. People with ADHD have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors, and in some cases, are overly active. Three times more boys than girls are diagnosed with ADHD. Symptoms persist into adulthood in as many as 60 percent of cases. Although these characteristics are present to some extent in everyone, when the symptoms are developmentally extreme, pervasive and persistent, it might be ADHD.
Although individuals with ADHD can be very successful in life, without identification and proper treatment, ADHD may have serious consequences, including school failure, family stress and disruption, depression, problems with relationships, substance abuse, delinquency, risk for accidental injuries and job failure. Early identification and treatment are extremely important.
There are three sub-types of ADHD.
These symptoms are present in everyone at some level. If symptoms are extreme, consider making an appointment for a full evaluation. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Health Sciences, Recent Posts, Special Education on August 28, 2009 - ח' אלול תשס"ט at 7:14 am
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The Vitality of Israel
Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world’s paramount example of the blessings of freedom.
Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, Osama, and history’s other notorious haters.
Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist, Israel—whose side are you on?
By David Pryce –Jones, July 23, 2009
Gilder sees Jews since their emancipation as the vanguard of human achievement. They may be few in numbers, but their creativity has brought prosperity to themselves and those around them, and that prosperity in turn has brought freedom.
George Gilder was one of the speakers on the recent National Review cruise round the Mediterranean, and he gave me a copy of his new book The Israel Test — there, I’ve declared an interest. He can be relied on to say striking and original things. At the moment, Israel is treated as a pariah among the nations, blamed for defending itself against the various Arab and Muslim states or terrorist groups trying to destroy it. To support the Arabs and Muslims in this endeavor has become a moral imperative for the Left everywhere. So figureheads like Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have revived and updated anti-Semitism: That is their contribution to the world we live in.
Nobody but Gilder could have written this book. Israel of course has its defenders, but they use arguments based on nationalism, territory, ethnicity, defence of minorities, rights, historicism, and so on. Gilder sees Jews since their emancipation as the vanguard of human achievement. They may be few in numbers, but their creativity has brought prosperity to themselves and those around them, and that prosperity in turn has brought freedom. Thus Jews spearhead capitalism and the democracy indispensable to its proper functioning. Marxists, Nazis, and now Muslims and their apologists envy Jews because they cannot emulate them, and so set out to destroy the success that shows up their failure. The attitude you take towards Israel and Jews decides whether you love or hate freedom, and beyond that, mankind — that’s the test he is proposing in the book’s title. And just in case the reader risks failing this test by jumping to a false conclusion, Gilder has a portrait of his very non-Jewish ancestry, saying, “We were classic WASPS all.”
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Judaism, Middle East, Recent Posts on July 24, 2009 - ג' אב תשס"ט at 12:19 am
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Culture of Hate Persists in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
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Obama to Travel to Both Countries in Effort to Reach Out to Muslim World
TIP’s Press Kit for President Obama’s Trip to Cairo
Obama’s Visit to Riyadh: Competing Agendas? (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance (Hudson Institute)
The West, Christians, Israel and Jews In Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks (IMPACT-SE)
Jews, Christians, War And Peace In Egyptian School Textbooks (IMPACT-SE)
TIP’s Briefing with Nonie Darwish and Dr. Mitch Bard on Abbas and Middle East Peace
TIP’s Briefing with Itamar Marcus on the Palestinian Hate Industry
As U.S. President Barack Obama departs Tuesday (June 2) for Saudi Arabia and Egypt in an historic attempt to engage with the Muslim world, anti-Western and anti-Semitic content continue to inundate both countries’ schoolhouses and media, many of which are government-controlled.
Obama’s trip to the Middle East comes a week after his meeting with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, where Obama urged the Palestinian leader to end the culture of hate that permeates Palestinian educational and religious institutions. Said Obama, “…It was very important to continue to make progress in reducing the incitement and anti-Israel sentiments that are sometimes expressed in schools and mosques and in the public square, because all those things are impediments to peace.” For a list of recent examples of the culture of hate that permeates Palestinian society
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Islam, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on June 3, 2009 - י"א סיון תשס"ט at 10:45 pm
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Arab education displays its discontents
By Raja Kamal and Tom G. Palmer, Daily Star, April 27, 2009
Recently, a Saudi judge shocked many Saudis and global public opinion by upholding a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man. That ruling brought to public awareness an appalling practice that has for too long been hidden from view and shielded from open discussion and criticism.
The case was not unique. Another highly publicized recent case in Yemen featured a 10-year-old girl who sought a divorce after being forced by her parents to marry a 30-year-old man, who took advantage of his power in order to rape and abuse her. It is disgraceful that such blatantly coerced “marriages” are allowed to take place at all. Yet, those familiar with educational systems in the Arab world are not surprised.
Shameful traditional systems of education that suppress critical thinking make it possible for such backward practices to continue, shielded beyond a local, narrow, and unexamined view of religion. Rulings like that in Saudi Arabia are the outcomes of that failing educational system. Some Arab societies have failed miserably to produce well prepared generations capable of catching up with most corners of the world. The Saudi religious curriculum, which couples rote memorization of texts with uncritical acceptance of tribal practices, keeps the country backward. It does not prepare students to cope with modernity, nor to be productive participants in an increasingly global economy.
Despite the flood of billions and billions in oil money to public education, Saudi students consistently score among the worst in math and science. The greatest culprit is the suppression of critical thinking, coupled with limited and weak exposure to math and science. An impressive investment in the infrastructure of higher education has not yielded positive returns. It is as if the state had purchased the most advanced computer hardware, but neglected to secure any software to run it.
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Islam, Middle East Report, Opinion on April 30, 2009 - ו' אייר תשס"ט at 11:13 am
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Arabs are Ill-Informed Because Arab Media are Biased
All political plans, including the Road Map and the Oslo Accords, have failed because they lack public participation and free debates. Israeli existence concerns and wish for living in peace with its neighbors do not find any echo in the Arab media. They are slammed as “propaganda”.
Dr. Sami Alrabaa, Family Security Matters, April 17, 2009
So long as we Arabs are one-sidedly informed, the longer we remain demagogic, and peace will never become a reality in the Middle East.
Thanks to modern electronic multimedia, the culture of reading is dwindling worldwide, slowly but steadily. But the culture of reading in the Arab world has sparsely existed. According to a recent UNESCO report, the Arab countries still have some of the highest rates of illiteracy in the world. The majority of Arabs do not read.
A recent study of the International Media Institute in Berlin, Germany, came to the conclusion that only 3% of Arabs read, and those who do read predominantly daily newspapers. The majority of Arabs watch TV for news and entertainment.
By and large the Arab states are awash with print and electronic media. Most of these media, however, are state-controlled, semi-official organs, or owned by oil rich Arabs, from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. For example, the Saudi tycoon, Al Waleed Bin Talal, owns MBC TV, Al Arabiya, Orbit, and other smaller TV channels. Sheikh Hamad Al Thani of Qatar owns Al Jazeera, and the Lebanese millionaire Saad Al Hareeri owns Al Mustaqbal.
All these media are largely biased. They misrepresent Western views, and critical, differentiated reporting is almost absent. Israel is depicted as the “aggressor” and the West as its backer.
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Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Islam, Judaism, Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on April 18, 2009 - כ"ד ניסן תשס"ט at 10:28 am
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