Teaching About the Holocaust - In Pakistan

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Re: Teaching About the Holocaust - In Pakistan

@chacha_Ghalib

The difference, my friend, is that the knowledge is highly technical and there are institutions with standaradized curriculum and standards of competency that award those degrees. The degree assures the employer that the person has acquired the knowledge necessary for the job. Can you acquire the knowledge independent of the degree? Most definitely. Some of the hackers are more knowledgeable than some of the IT people.

Religious knowledge is not technical in nature and can be acquired by enough study and dedication. Again, ulema should show why a certain argument is invalid but should not dismiss the person outright. Don’t call them maulana or mufti but don’t just dismiss them out of hand.

Interesting point. My view is that most religious “scholars” are a joke, and call me arrogant, but I can reason for or against religion better than they can, so why should I listen to them? Because they have trivial knowledge? 1,000 years ago that was impressive, nowadays a child can find anything on the internet.

However, you make a great point. I would like to see all ulema’s be required to get a PhD in Philosophy, at a minimum. Training as a psychiatrist would be great too. It would require them to be engaged in all forms of thought, and most of these chumps would bomb out simply because of the academic requirements. It would greatly prepare them to be able to advise people on, what are often, very serious topics.