Survey of American Muslims

[Amadeus85]

Out of 270 million Arab people, some 67 million stepped into the twenty-first century without being able to read or write. More political will and public debate on the region's efforts to abolish literacy are needed.
Today 40 per cent of adults in the Arab region are illiterate. And projections show that if current efforts continue, 28 per cent of the region's population will still be illiterate in 2015.


But the situation varies significantly between countries. The greatest numbers of illiterates are in five countries: Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, and Yemen where roughly 49 of the 67 million illiterate adults live. This constitutes 73 per cent of all illiterates in the twenty-two Arab countries. Ten Arab countries, namely Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Mauritania account for only 3.6 million illiterates.

What is more alarming is that the rates of illiteracy among women, youth, and the underprivileged sectors of society are even higher, particularly in rural regions. In Yemen, for example, 54 per cent of the country’s 9 million people are illiterate and the figure increases to about 90 per cent among women and 76 per cent among men in rural areas, according to the National Committee for Literacy.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

[جوري]

lol-- thanks for quoting me the not so biased "Jewish issues site"... does double blinded hypocrisy nullify itself?
at least I had the decency to quote from non Islamic sites, so you wouldn't go screaming agenda and bias. I can paint quite a disparaging picture of your friends from multitudes of Islamic websites --I really do have to maintain, you must be 5 and have wasted enough of my time!

 

[Amadeus85]

lol-- thanks for quoting me the not so biased "Jewish issues site"... does double blinded hypocrisy nullify itself?
at least I had the decency to quote from non Islamic sites, so you wouldn't go screaming agenda and bias. I can paint quite a disparaging picture of your friends from multitudes of Islamic websites --I really do have to maintain, you must be 5 and have wasted enough of my time!

You should rather consider those facts that i showed, and yes actually i have just turned 5

 

[جوري]

What does illiteracy have to do with this topic? You don't have illiteracy here in America as well as poverty? Japan is actually more advanced than America, they have eliminated the last of the illiterates. How many youths here drop out and get into gangs and violence? Try to compose yourself before you write little boy, unless you are hoping this thread gets closed while displaying the all too familiar vulgar display of how much you hate Muslims-- and btw, since you do, there is a million blog site out there to foster your views, and deficient grammar.

 

[جوري]

You should rather consider those facts that i showed, and yes actually i have just turned 5

you haven't given me "facts", you have given me the subjective veiws of Jews a la mode of a Jewish website-- again a simple google search can undo all of it. It all depends on your bias and point of view!

happy bday

 

[Amadeus85]

What does illiteracy have to do with this topic? You don't have illiteracy here in America as well as poverty? Japan is actually more advanced than America, they have eliminated the last of the illiterates. How many youths here drop out and get into gangs and violence? Try to compose yourself before you write little boy, unless you are hoping this thread gets closed while displaying the all too familiar vulgar display of how much you hate Muslims-- and btw, since you do, there is a million blog site out there to foster your views, and deficient grammar.[/QUOT

Chill out a bit. I haven't offended anyone. And i am not going to do that.

When you criticize and bash Israel, everything is all right, but when i gave some contrarguements, you get mad. :rollseyes


So you think that defending Israel's right to exist means hating muslims? LOL !

I have more muslim close friends than you think, and although we disagree we respect each other.

You must accept that not all people in world wants Israel to be destroyed and all jews there killed.

 

[Amadeus85]

you haven't given me "facts", you have given me the subjective veiws of Jews a la mode of a Jewish website-- again a simple google search can undo all of it. It all depends on your bias and point of view!

happy bday

My birthday is in July, but thank You .

 

[جوري]

Chill out a bit. I haven't offended anyone. And i am not going to do that.

When you criticize and bash Israel, everything is all right, but when i gave some contrarguements, you get mad. :rollseyes


So you think that defending Israel's right to exist means hating muslims? LOL !

I have more muslim close friends than you think, and although we disagree we respect each other.

You must accept that not all people in world wants Israel to be destroyed and all jews there killed.

I am not, nor have I EVER advocated the killing of civilians---I think you have missed the entire point.. but that is alright...

peace!

 

[Amadeus85]

I am not, nor have I EVER advocated the killing of civilians---I think you have missed the entire point.. but that is alright...

peace!

What about Hamas and Al-Aksa Brigades, do they do the right thing in your opinion? Are they true freedom fighters or terrorists in your opinion?

 

[islamirama]

What about Hamas and Al-Aksa Brigades, do they do the right thing in your opinion? Are they true freedom fighters or terrorists in your opinion?

Hamas is a resistance grouop against occupation of thei country. IF they were terrorists why would the public elect them as leaders of their country, it is the coward west that lables "terrorist" to any resistance groupo that stands up for it's freedome and fights injustice and oppression of the west and their allies.

 

[Amadeus85]

Hamas is a resistance grouop against occupation of thei country. IF they were terrorists why would the public elect them as leaders of their country, it is the coward west that lables "terrorist" to any resistance groupo that stands up for it's freedome and fights injustice and oppression of the west and their allies.

I am sorry but i wasnt asking you. I was asking Purest Ambrosia. I guess that for you even Al Qaeda is a resistance group.

 

[Cognescenti]

what B.S-- I have done quite a bit of work with Médecins Sans Frontières, and I know exactly how mismanaged "Aid money" gets spent when it comes to aid to palis or Africans.. but that is besides... seems like you spent quite a bit of time with the thesaurus here.. so we'll leave things as such, I can think of at least three better ways of spending my Saturday.

peace

oh before I go parting words from your friend Ariel Sharon:

Mismanaged foreign aid? Yes..that is sort of the point, isn't it? Funny how aid to the PA is "mismanaged" but aid to Israel explains every Israeli success. Hmmm?

Thesaurus?? ***** you

Sharon? Did it occur to you he may have been speaking to a domestic audience? Besides, I wonder how often you cite Sharon as an expert opinion on other matters?

Saturday? You do have a good point there. I am off to saw up a bunch of Escallonia shrubs I forgot to water for a year.

As you say,

Peace!

 

[Cognescenti]

BTW..is there any way to turn off the "subscribe" option on this website?

Permanently, as a default, I mean. I am getting spammed

 

[جوري]

I am sorry but i wasnt asking you. I was asking Purest Ambrosia. I guess that for you even Al Qaeda is a resistance group.

let's put it this way-- if I were living in Palestine and my life touched by tragedy daily as such-- and that was my home bombed or my mother murdered G-D forbid, I can't imagine what that family's grief is like, then I'd not grow up to be anything but a suicide bomber or a member of a resistance party-- there is a psychology to this.. you can't understand or relate to it, simply because you are not living it... I'd make it my business to snipe an IDF solider per day, until I am dead, I can't imagine a tomorrow with those conditions, and I'd be too filled with grief and anger to ever forgive or resolve it---I know of several Americans, and I am not talking Rachel cori, I am talking people I actually know, who have gone there for peace rallies, one of them a lawyer, and was shot in the head by IDF just for marching where they didn't want him-- these people are ruthless.. all who have gone have suffered indignation, and it much worst for the natives.. Anyhow this isn't a topic about Israeli/ Arab conflict.. I have no interest in entertaining this topic beyond this point-- the issues will remain unresolved and you have no hope in hell of swaying my opinion one way or the other, and I concede the same of mine to you. So let's call it a day!

peace!

 

[جوري]

Mismanaged foreign aid? Yes..that is sort of the point, isn't it? Funny how aid to the PA is "mismanaged" but aid to Israel explains every Israeli success. Hmmm?

Thesaurus?? ***** you

Sharon? Did it occur to you he may have been speaking to a domestic audience? Besides, I wonder how often you cite Sharon as an expert opinion on other matters?

Saturday? You do have a good point there. I am off to saw up a bunch of Escallonia shrubs I forgot to water for a year.

As you say,

Peace!

you should really question at which check points it is confiscated to understand how it is being mismanaged! Why don't you go water your bush -pity it is neglected for a whole year!-

 

[جوري]

BTW..is there any way to turn off the "subscribe" option on this website?

Permanently, as a default, I mean. I am getting spammed

Indeed-- after watering your bush-- eh maybe even before... if it is been a while? Go to your LI "subscriptions" and check them all at once, (click delete) and then you are home free!:threadclo

 

[Cognescenti]

Indeed-- after watering your bush-- eh maybe even before... if it is been a while? Go to your LI "subscriptions" and check them all at once, (click delete) and then you are home free!:threadclo

Thanks for that and for the horticultural advice, but I mean is there anyway to permanently make "no subscrition" the default for any future posts?

My apologies in advance to the mods

 

[جوري]

Why not ask the mods that your account be disabled?-- or do you wish to have a thunderous exit?

Anything to do with your actual email, can be easily managed by your Internet provider-- type in the name of the addresses from which you don't wish to receive emails.. it is really so simple oh learned one!

 

[Keltoi]

Thanks for that and for the horticultural advice, but I mean is there anyway to permanently make "no subscrition" the default for any future posts?

My apologies in advance to the mods

You do it with the control panel(User CP). Go to options, and the rest should be self explanatory.

 

[Grace Seeker]

I don't see the revelance of Israel or Palestians to a survey of American Muslims, other than that of course they will have opinions about them both. But as far as the value of the survey, and what we might learn from it, that has to do with the science and integrity of the survey process itself, not events outside the USA.