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[scot47]

http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article58003.ece

what do you think ?

[johnslat]

Dear scot47,

I salute Dr. Khalid Alnowaiser for his rare honesty and his courage. May his
suggestions bear fruit.

Regards,
John

[trapezius]

^ Give it a 100 years... and then, the situation will be better, inshallah.

Or not.

The K-12 education system is contradictory and shaeet.
The social conditions and environment are contradictory and shaeet.
Parenting is generally contradictory and shaeet.
Cultural/social/career taboos are contradictory and shaeet.

But hey, let's go full steam ahead with Saudization! (but only for the middle and top jobs... leave the menial and dirty jobs -- including raising the next generations -- to the dirty, uncivilized, and lowly foreigners)

[johnslat]

The problem is mind-sets such as this one:

ABU MARYIUM
May 27, 2010 00:16
"What a load of nonsense!
The trouble the youth have today is that they are caught between two extremes, the religious and the secularist name Dr Khalid Alnowaiser. Unfortunately our Ulemas (scholars) are way out of touch with the youth and cannot relate to them. Alternatively, the other extreme likes to indirectly/directly blame religion (Islam) for all of societies social problems. They based their way of thinking upon liberal western philosophies which may have worked for people who have no emaan (faith) in Allah and they try to map that to our Kingdom. We should seek the middle path, the path that Allah bestowed upon this Ummah for centuries."

Regards,
John

[scot47]

It is interesting that public debate on this sort of thing is now seen in the Saudi press. I am not sure if the same sort of debate is available in the Arabic-language press of KSA.

I suspect that it is.

[BillCowher]

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