UN Finds Arab Muslim Education Lags Rest Of World

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Islam, the religion of ignorance

Arab Education Lags Behind World, Says UNESCO

Most Arab states have made progress in providing education over the past decade. However, the quality of education remains poor, many children still leave primary education prematurely and illiteracy rates are relatively high, says a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report.

The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education reviews the progress on education, and warns that many regions will not meet commitments set for 2015 for Education for All, a UNESCO initiative launched to provide education to every citizen in every society.

The regional report for the Arab States finds that that the proportion of children attending school has increased, with average enrollment reaching 86%, up from 75% of children in 1999. Yet, six million primary school-aged children remain out of school, the majority of whom are girls. The occupied Palestinian territories has witnessed a huge fall in primary school enrollment of 21%.

Between 1999 and 2005, Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, has seen a large increase in enrollment. In 2008, it had over one million children out-of-school, the highest number in the region. This increase has slowed over the past few years, however, which means that number could increase before 2015.

Cont'd: Arab education lags behind world, says UNESCO : Nature Middle East

Winston Churchill...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
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