Artx and the Rehabilitation of Terrorists
As a part of a government sponsored religious reeducation program, an art therapist in Saudi Arabia is using art to help junior jihadists explore new ways of conceiving the world and getting out their anger. Interestingly, the participants are chosen after they have served their jail sentences and have passed a test showing their willingness/openness for change. Follow the link to the full story, and also a video that was shown on The National, a Canadian news program.
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Daz Cox
January 16, 2008haha ‘religious reeducation’! art is a perfect tool for deprogramming I feel.
Liz
December 25, 2008http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-healing-arts/200812/jihad-rehab-can-art-therapy-cure-terrorism
Elizabeth Beck » Bad Press, Artx and the Rehabilitation of Terrorists
December 29, 2009[...] Yesterday, it was reported that two released Guantanamo prisoners who received rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia, which included art therapy, were behind the terrorist plot to blow up a plane headed from Amsterdam to Detroit on 12/25/2009. This is the same program that I blogged about in early 2008. [...]