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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.

   

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  johnpi 9:21 am on January 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: mental health (10), mental illness (6), Muslim-on-Muslim violence (76), Pakistan (569), Pakistan Taliban (124), Pakistani Taliban (126), psychiatry, psychology (11), taliban (260), war (36), warfare (22)

  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.

   
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  johnpi 10:08 am on November 5, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: drug abuse (2), drug rehabilitation (2), drugs (5), Egypt (94), Muslim drug abuse (3), Muslim drug addicts, Muslim psychiatrists (2), Muslim psychologists, Muslims in therapy, psychiatry, psychology (11), social science (2), social sciences (2), social workers (2)

  Egypt has an estimated 6 million drug addicts, about 7 percent of the population. Al Jazeera reports.

  Psychiatrist quoted in the report: “You need to go to the people who have started to experiment with cigarette smoking by the age of 8, who are dropouts of school, who are not doing very well in school, who have violence in their family or in their personal history, who are experimenting with sex. So these are the sort of ‘naughty boys’ and the programs are not designed to reach out to them.”

  The psychiatrist is identified as a specialist in drug addiction, but his specialty has limited application in fighting addiction. He is a medical doctor who can write prescriptions that will treat the side effects of drug detox, but more psychologists and social workers are needed, an assertion that in both my experience and my reading is controversial.

  Here’s Khaled Abou El Fadl (book: ‘The Great Theft’) describing Islamic ‘puritans’ approach to the social sciences:

  To become truly modernized, according to the puritans, means to regress back in time and recreate the golden age of Islam. This, however, does not mean that they want to abolish technology and scientific advancements. Rather, their program is deceptively simple – Muslims should learn the science and technology invented by the West, but in order to resist Western culture, Muslims should not seek to study the social sciences or humanities.

  The puritanical strain’s influence on ‘orthodox’ or conservative Muslims in discouraging individuals from choosing these professions damages the larger community’s ability to engage drug addicts with talk therapy and other therapys derived from the social sciences that could greatly improve treatment. I take this as an answer to why there are not enough Muslim psychologists and social workers. This seems to be a trans-national problem in Muslim communities.