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  • johnpi 10:04 pm on January 11, 2010 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    Muslim prisoners in the UK ‘refuse to take part in rehabilitation programmes.’

    Previously, Muslim prisoners refused to take part in Sex Offender Treatment Programmes because it involved talking about offences against women, but now some are refusing to take part in all rehabilitation sessions where they have to ‘open up’ in front of other cons.

    A little more explanation:

    One Muslim prisoner, Abu Dira, a maximum security prisoner at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire, said this week: “Muslims cannot speak about their past crimes in a group setting.

    “It is an established concept within the Sharia that a Muslim must not speak about the Haraam – prohibited things – and certainly should not advertise past mistakes to their peers.”

    He says that it is clear from the words of Islamic prophet Muhammad, called a Hadith, that it was wrong to talk about past crimes.

    He said: “This is clearly supported by Hadith – If you keep your evil away from the people, Allah will record this as a charitable act from yourself for yourself, so corruption is not to be spread amongst Muslims.”

    A religious ward against treatment of psych disorders and violent social dysfunction. Total disaster. Nihilism. This isn’t about Western information vs. Islamic information; these guys need to learn skills and practice using them to make it less likely that they do the crimes again.

     
  • johnpi 9:21 am on January 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    In Peshawar, violence leaves psychological scars.

    Khairullah is a broken man. “He came to Peshawar to escape the war,” says the 57-year-old’s eldest son, Rahimullah. “But it’s Peshawar that has driven him mad.”

    The single-named father of six from the Mohmand tribal agency in Pakistan’s restive northwest lies on a cot in the waiting room of the Shafique Psychiatric Clinic in Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). His body sporadically erupts into paroxysm, and his tortured eyes dart over the blank ceiling as if caught in a violent waking nightmare. He rarely speaks as his wife, hugging his knees, rocks back and forth to calm him.

    Thousands of men, women and children like Khairullah wander Peshawar’s anarchic streets. They are the forgotten victims of the war between Pakistan’s army and Islamic militants. The city is where the mad come for solace, pouring in from war-torn regions of the Pakistani frontier and even farther afield in search of a disturbingly scarce resource: psychiatric aid.

     
  • johnpi 5:17 am on October 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Web surf to save your aging brain.

    Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age.

    Researchers found that older adults who started browsing the Web experienced improved brain function after only a few days.

     
  • johnpi 9:10 am on August 7, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Egypt’s national security threatened by sorcery: psychiatrist.

    Growing superstition among Egyptians is threatening the country’s national security, according to one prominent psychiatrist, as reported in Al Arabiya.

    Dr Khalil Fadel believes that national security is threatened because it depends on the mental health of the nation.

    Interest in new-agey ‘alternative medicine’ threatens America’s national security: blogger.

    This spring, during the swine flu outbreak, I was searching the Web for news when a blog post on the Huffington Post caught my eye. Titled “Swine Flu: Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones,” its author, Kim Evans, offered a unique prescription for swine flu, one she believed could “save your life”: deep-cleansing enemas.

     
  • johnpi 5:41 am on August 6, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Study: Throw away your Viagra – Muslim prayer position cures erectile dysfunction.

    “Our own trial with two ED patients saw vast improvements (in their sexual health) after a month of ‘prayer therapy’,” she told reporters after the launch of the national seminar on ‘Solat Science’ at Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan here today.

    Also good for back pain in pregnant women, reducing heartbeat and curing mental health issues.

    I’m skeptical…

     
  • johnpi 8:08 pm on May 6, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Related to my previous post, a teen Muslimah ventures into the realm of media criticism and expresses a complaint about the lack of certain images of hijabis on the web:

    Why doesn’t there seem to be action hijabis on google?! Why do all hijabis have to be posing? I’ve been googling hijabi w/hijab flying in the wind since forever. But there’s nothing! Or a hijabi running or jumping or cleaning or playing or eating…

     
  • johnpi 7:48 pm on May 6, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Women’s sports clubs have become widely popular in Saudi Arabia as a culture of women’s fitness has taken hold. But the Saudi government now says it will close all of the unlicensed private operations down, leaving only expensive clubs in medical facilities.

    Blogger Saudiwoman, who was misquoted and misidentified by the Arab News hacks in the article linked above, writes about this new development (I’ve edited one sentence in this quote for grammar and clarity.)

    Women only sports clubs have been popping up everywhere and their fees are now within reach of the average woman. They offer aerobic classes, self-defense and even salsa dancing. However they have no legal licensing umbrella because according to the government all forms of exercise are for men only. So the owners of these clubs get a license for a salon or a child activity center and then expand from there. Ultra conservatives are dead against these establishments because they believe that they lead Saudi women to sin through the influence of and interaction with unsavory feminists, and sometimes they even go so far as to claim lesbians work there and frequent the clubs (according to the muttawa sexually repressed wild imagination). Moreover they believe that exercise goes against femininity and that it is an exclusively manly domain.

    “Exercise goes against femininity” – yeah, sure. Exercise is important to overall mental health and helps stave off or improve control over mental illness. Such ‘ultra-conservatives’ must consider madness and poor mental health to be expressions of “normal” feminity, since they are more likely to be present among the women in their families who, no doubt, are prohibited from exercise.

     
  • fathima 4:20 pm on February 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    “Cutting through scholars’ egos, getting to the real problems.”

    But what’s more harmful than the lack of information is MISinformation. I saw some postings on SunniPath and a few other notably Islam-oriented websites. People asking for advice about their depression, and the responses by scholars were pretty upsetting. Not only did religious scholars sometimes give them wrong and harmful information about mental health, rarely were the advice-seekers pointed in the right direction, or at the very least, told that an Islamic scholar could not offer what they were looking for.

    Dina Badawy writes about Muslims and mental health support systems.

     
  • muse 12:56 am on June 24, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: disability, , mental health,

    Being a Disabled Muslim Woman. An open and honest voice that should be heard by everyone.

     
  • thabet 10:38 pm on May 26, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Institutionalised racism and social stigma are contributing to the high suicide rates amongst Asian women in Britain.

     
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