Report: One in Three Arabs are Illiterate....

Yeah, but they can recite the Koran verse by verse....

Nearly one in three people in the Arab world is illiterate, including nearly half of all women in the region, the Tunis-based Arab League Educational Cultural and Scientific Organisation said Monday. Three-quarters of the 100 million people unable to read or write in the 21 Arab countries are aged between 15 and 45 years old, the Arab League group, known by its acronym ALECSO, said in a statement.

Equally alarming, some 46.5 percent of women in the region are illiterate, the organisation reported, urging governments to put the fight against illiteracy at the top of their agendas.

While describing access to primary school education as "indispensable," it also urged Arab countries to focus on adult education to avoid "serious incidents in the evolution of (Arab) societies".

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Comments

[ISLAMSFORLOSERS]

No surprise here-the Koran has been the biggest obstacle to education the world has ever seen. Rote memorization of that vile book has been drummed into these poor people's heads for centuries to the exclusion of literacy and critical thinking. The Arab world today would be far more educated and less violent had Mo been killed as a crackpot with delusions of grandeur 1400 years ago. What a tragedy that Mo was ever born.

[ZIP]

"What a tragedy that Mo was ever born"

Would have saved millions of lives...

[sheik yer'mamis]

But why do you need education when you have the Koran...?

[Fiftycal]

Anybody remember Cambodia? When the communists took over there, who did they kill? Anyone that could read and write? Why? Anyone that could read and write would know how stupid the communism program was. Can't have dissent. Have to kill it off.

[Fiftycal]

Oops. "Communitarian" is just communism misspelled. Sorry, been waiting all day to say that line.

[ZIP]

Fixed that for you Fiftycal

[atheling]

Islam IS the most retrograde force in the world...

Churchill. Right again.