{"id":59887,"date":"2015-05-18T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59887"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:39:43","slug":"saudis-cure-jihadism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59887","title":{"rendered":"Saudis cure jihadism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> writes about a kind of rehab center founded by the Saudis to cure jihadists with art therapy, water aerobics classes, ping-pong, Jacuzzis, and gourmet chefs at the Mohammad bin Naif Counseling and Care Center. The article claims that they have an 88% success rate and that they’re treating 250 reformed terrorists;<\/p>\n

In a three-month program, crafted and advocated by current Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammad bin Naif, Saudi officials transfer former jihadists from the kingdom\u2019s five high-security correctional facilities who have completed their jail sentences to the care center on the outskirts of Riyadh.<\/p>\n

The program employs a team of clerics, theologians, and shariah experts to correct \u201cmisconceptions\u201d spread by jihadist ideology and guide patients to the \u201ctrue path of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armed with dozens of hadiths, or sayings, from the prophet Mohammad and volumes on Islamic jurisprudence dating back to the 8th century, religious experts spend daily sessions with patients to debunk jihadist groups\u2019 various claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a recent article in Al Riyadh<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A total of 30 persons were recently graduated from Prince Mohammed bin Naif Counseling and Rehabilitation centers in Riyadh and Jeddah respectively, it was reported here today. A security spokesman at the Ministry of Interior said that 13 persons who previously followed the deviant thought were graduated from Riyadh-based Prince Mohammed bin Naif Counseling and Rehabilitation Center while 17 were given clearance by Jeddah-based twin facility after having benefited from the religious, social, psychiatric, historic, scientific, sports, technical, vocational programs, symposia and lectures. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, well, another way to combat “deviant thought” is to shut down the sources of deviant thought. If the madrases weren’t allowed to teach the message of the jihadists, there wouldn’t be a need for rehabilitation. But, I’m just thinking out loud here. <\/p>\n

Wiki<\/a> says that the rehab center claimed 100% success rate until a couple of their grads released a threatening video and the government had to go out and re-arrest and re-educate nine other graduates of the program.<\/p>\n

That all might work over there in the region, but I have a hard time thinking that it would work here. Prospective jihadists are already awash in luxury, compared to their Middle East brethren. Our culture is so broken, this kind of rehabilitation would never work. Take, for example<\/a>, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, the mother of the surviving Boston Bomber;<\/p>\n

Tsarnaev, who currently lives in Dagestan, insisted that her sons were being preyed upon by America for protecting Muslims throughout the world. (She\u2019s claimed that her sons were set up ever since the bombing occurred.)<\/p>\n

\u201cMay god bless those who helped my son,\u201d she wrote to a support group on the Russian social media VKontakte, according to Vocativ. \u201cThe terrorists are the Americans and everyone knows it. My son is the best of the best.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Says the woman who lived in the lap of luxury at the expense of the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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