Wednesday, March 22, 2017

New program allows Saudi prisoners on path to rehabilitation


So, how exactly do you rehabilitate someone who follows the teachings of Mohammed?

The story comes from Al Arabiya.


New program allows Saudi prisoners on path to rehabilitation

A joint program between Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry with Imam Muhammad ibn Saud university celebrated its first batch of student-prisoners.

The majority of the students were former extremists but who have rehabilitated themselves while studying under the new program.

Eighty-two of them graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sharia and Islamic studies, 25 in business administration, four in economics while three finished their degrees in the Arabic language.

“I was given the chance to read a learn a lot through the ‘Time Management’ program. I also learned to differentiate between right and wrong. There are more people like me here in prison who have benefited from these types of programs,” one prisoner told Al Arabiya.

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