{"id":27243,"date":"2009-10-02T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/02\/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:16:46","slug":"saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Cleric: Drop Evolution from the Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medieval Religious State of Saudi Arabia has a school called King Abdullah&#8217;s University of Science and Technology, which is co-ed (that is an extraordinarily progressive idea for Teh Kingdom) and very science oriented.  The idea, obviously, is for Saudi Arabia to maintain it&#8217;s old patriarchal relgious-oligarchic ways  but at the same time not get mushed by the modern world by including some rational thinking and stuff.  But a senior Saudi cleric has called for a vetting of the university&#8217;s curriculum in order to remove &#8220;alien ideologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evolution is an alien ideology, apparently.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The recommendation is to set up sharia committees at this university to oversee these studies and look into what violates the sharia (Islamic law),&#8221; Sheikh Saad al-Shithri, a member of a panel of top scholars, was quoted by al-Watan newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking at some of the sciences that have included some irregular and alien ideologies, like evolution and such other ideologies,&#8221; said Shithri, who is one of several clerics who objected to co-education at the university.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2009\/10\/01\/saudi-cleric-to-kings-university-dont-teach-evolution-mix-sexes\/\">source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school started operation on September 23rd.  It did not take long for the Yahoos to show up and try to ruin everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medieval Religious State of Saudi Arabia has a school called King Abdullah&#8217;s University of Science and Technology, which is co-ed (that is an extraordinarily progressive idea for Teh Kingdom) and very science oriented. The idea, obviously, is for Saudi Arabia to maintain it&#8217;s old patriarchal relgious-oligarchic ways but at the same time not get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/saudi-cleric-drop-evolution-fr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudi Cleric: Drop Evolution from the Curriculum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,2486,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-75p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}