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Afghanistan/South Asia
Islam the solution to mental illness?
2004-04-11
Mental health in Pakistan is an important issue and needs to be attended to with help from civil society, Punjab Special Education Minister Qudsia Lodhi told a conference on ‘Islam and Mental Health’ organised by the International Conference of Pakistan Association of Clinical Psychologists (PACP) in Lahore on Saturday. “Solution to our problems lies in the teachings of Islam. We can achieve success and peace by following universal principles of our religion,” Ms Lodhi said.
Likewise, if you accidentally drive a nail through your forehead, the solution is to drive more nails into your forehead, and maybe a few into your temples as well...
The minister said Islamic laws stressed human relationships and urged Muslims to treat parents with kindness and love. Parents, she added, had similar responsibilities towards their children. “Rights of the relatives, orphans and neighbours are defined clearly in Islam. There is guidance also on how to treat your teachers, strangers or travellers. In fact, it all adds up to a charter of human rights. Even animal rights have been spelled,” she said.
"And if you get tired of being nice to people and to animals, there's always jihad."
Ms Lodhi said that since the parameters were already drawn, it made the job of a clinical psychologist relatively easier. She said the conference should focus on Islamic teachings and take public mental health as a serious problem at the grassroots level in Pakistan. She said globalisation resulted in people around the world being flooded with new information as well as rapid social changes. “Contemporary realities can threaten cherished traditions and values and pose serious challenges to personal adjustment.”
"One has to be careful not to allow this external reality to intrude on our Islamic world. I have set djinns to guard us, but the efrits are very powerful! There are dark conspiracies™ trying to promote the illusion of paranoia..."
Posted by:Fred

#10  Comment by a muslim girl:
Hi everyone (:
This is my first time on this web site, and I believe you guys have a lot of facts wrong!
Sorry! I know no one like being told that, but aren't you playing into the hands of politicians?
How many of you has really stopped and got a book on Islam and read it?
Do you know that muslims believe that:
What Osama Bin Laden did, if it was him, is wrong?
We are not people who like violance, we only fight in self defence.
What is wrong with you people?
Do you just swollow up everything forced into your mouths?
Think, for God's sake, THINK!
Islam is against exremists, did you know that?
Islam is even against killing a bird for sport!
It is a religion of mercy, NOT what you imagine it to be.
I wish I knew how to SHOW you what Islam is like. I wish I could.
P.S. Please answer my comment, it came from the depths of my heart.
P.P.S. Please. DON'T leat you hatred blind you.

Thanks for the time
Posted by: Gentle   2004-04-18 8:48:35 AM  

#9  Islam the solution to mental illness?

If ever there was proof that the cure can be worse than the disease ...
Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-11 11:57:41 PM  

#8  Frank: the presence of one implies a lack of the other.
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-04-11 10:51:41 PM  

#7  Frank G: No.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-04-11 10:33:32 PM  

#6  "Islam and Mental Health - can they coexist?"
Posted by: Frank G   2004-04-11 7:23:00 PM  

#5  Headline was wrongly quote - correction follows:

Islam the Solution to Source of Mental Illness
Posted by: OldSpook   2004-04-11 7:12:55 PM  

#4  Bin seeing this s*it before. Usually around the holiday season.
Posted by: Nuss Ratchett   2004-04-11 5:13:51 PM  

#3  Islam? Mental Illness? Solution? This is a joke, right?
Heh Ha. Hahahaha! HAHAHA!
HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAH!
Posted by: .com   2004-04-11 4:22:41 PM  

#2  
There is guidance also on how to treat your teachers, strangers or travellers.

Blow up schools. Ban books. Blow up airplanes. Blow up trains. Blow up busses. Blow up hotels. Steal passports. Steal credit cards. Kidnap and murder tourists and aid workers.
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-04-11 4:12:06 PM  

#1  This was said in English, right? Wonder what he said in Arabic.
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-11 2:40:04 PM  

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