Mohammed Al-Nujeimi, a member of the Ministry of Interior's Advisory Committee, has said that no females have come before him during the course of his work and that the majority of persons coming before the committee in recent years held qualifications no higher than secondary school certificates. "University graduates were very few prior to the list of 44 recently announced by the Ministry of Interior," Al-Nujeimi said in reference to the announcement last month of arrests made between July 9 and Aug. 2 of this year who boasted among their ranks holders of doctorate degrees and university professors specialized in fields such as electronic and electrical engineering and computers, as well as Shariah law, including theology and comparative jurisprudence.
| "Really, only the stupid and the ignorant go a'jihading. Perhaps the genetically damaged as well." |
Working at the committee which seeks to rehabilitate persons charged with terrorist offenses or submitting to "deviant ideology," Al-Nujeimi said that he, personally, had not been presented with any one holding higher education qualifications. "Many of the people to whom I have given advisory consultation have corrected their ideas and shown regret for them and what has resulted from them," Al-Nujeimi added. |