In this mailing:
- Denis MacEoin: What Might be Missing
in the Muslim World?
- Burak Bekdil: Violence against
Women: Some Inconvenient Data for the Corrupt UN
by Denis MacEoin • June 28, 2017
at 5:00 am
- Recently,
Chinese, Japanese and other educators have found that rote
learning and endless drills produce high achievers without
creativity, originality, or the ability to think for
themselves. Western academic standards of rationality and
objectivity have been behind most of the West's achievements.
- "The
campus has three mosques with a fourth one planned, but no
bookstore. No Pakistani university, including QAU, allowed
Abdus Salam to set foot on its campus, although he had
received the Nobel Prize in 1979 for his role in formulating
the standard model of particle physics." — Pervez Amirali
Hoodbhoy, commenting on Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad,
Pakistan, the second-best university among the 57 Muslim
states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
- The
very thought that "Islamic science" has to be
different from "Western science" suggests the need
for a radically different way of thinking. Scientific method
is scientific method and rationality is rationality,
regardless of the religion practiced by individual scientists.
Commenting
about the disparity in creativity between the Islamic world and the
West, Pakistani nuclear physicist Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy wrote
that no Pakistani university allowed Abdus Salam (pictured above)
to set foot on its campus, although he had received the Nobel Prize
in Physics (Image source: Keystone/Getty Images)
In April this year, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh
'Ali Gomaa, told an interviewer what he meant as a flat statement
of fact: that there are no female heart surgeons, as such work
required strength and other capabilities that no woman possesses.
He put it this way:
"You may have noticed that there is not a
single female heart surgeon in the world... It's amazing. It's
peculiar. Why do you think that there are none? Because it requires
great physical effort -- beyond what a woman is capable of. That's
in general. Along comes a woman who challenges this, and she
succeeds in becoming a surgeon. But she is one woman among several
million male surgeons."
by Burak Bekdil • June 28, 2017
at 4:00 am
- The
last (worst) rankings of the Global Gender Gap Index of the
World Economic Forum, from 128th to 144th,
are without exception overwhelmingly Muslim countries,
including Turkey at the 130th place.
- A
2016 study by Turkey's Family and Social Policies Ministry
revealed that no fewer than 86% of Turkish women have suffered
physical or psychological violence at the hands of their partners
or family.
- So,
tell us, Ms. Simonovic: Do Turkish men beat and sometimes kill
their wives because of Israeli occupation? Is there "a
clear link" between Turkey's rising numbers indicating
violence against women and "Israel's prolonged
occupation?"
The 56th
Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in the hall of
the United Nations General Assembly, February 27, 2012. (Image
source: UN Women/Ryan Brown)
The United Nations panels lovingly practice
hypocrisy all the time. In 2016, a UN debate revolved around the
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which voted to blame
Israel for Palestinian domestic violence. This year's show was
hardly different in the content of nonsense. The executive director
of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, asked Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special
Rapporteur on Violence against Women, at a session on June 12:
"Ms. Simonovic, in other words, what you are saying is as
follows: 'When Palestinian men beat their wives, it's Israel's
fault.'"
At first glance it sounds like dark humor, but it is
not. Not just one but two reports presented before the UNHRC
by Simonovic argue that Israel is to blame for Palestinian violence
against women, through "a clear linkage between the prolonged
occupation and violence".
Where, Neuer asked Simonovic, is the data? There is
data, but not the kind that Simonovic would prefer to believe
exists.
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