Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (2951)	11/14/2006 3:16:55 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Many people still need to face reality....apparently as a country, we have not yet learned our lesson. One could make the argument reading stories such as this that it is political correctness which is the true death cult. Saudis return in record numbers to US universities [11,000, double September, 2001] IMRA ^ \| 11-14-06 imra.org.il Saudis return in record numbers to US universities Saudi Gazette - 14 November, 2006 www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=260863&news_type=Top<=en&PHPSESSID=f966bef97d61419819d0d1071fb42963 Saudi students studying in the US have achieved a record figure as their number has reached 11,000 after several years that witnessed a drop in their numbers following the September 11 attacks, Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Arabic-language daily reported Sunday. These include 1,653 Saudi girls who got scholarships to study in America. The increase came as a result of the measures taken by the Saudi and American authorities, including the Saudi government's huge scholarship program to enable Saudi students to study abroad. The program began last year, along with easing in the issue of student visas from the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia. The education initiative also includes another scholarship program to enable American students to study in Saudi Arabia. "The relations at the government level are strong but at the people's level there is a lot of mistrust and hatred. This scholarship program is a good step towards eradicating some of the mistrust and hatred," Gregory Gus III, a professor at Vermont University and a specialist on Saudi affairs was quoted as saying by the newspaper. Mazyad Ibrahim Al-Mazyad, the Saudi Cultural Attaché said 10,936 Saudi students have been registered in 733 education institutions throughout the United States. He said 3,000 other Saudi students are expected to arrive in the new semester. This means their number will reach 14,000 students. Virginia occupies the fourth position after California, Florida and Colorado as a favored destination for Saudi students seeking study at US universities. There are 736 Saudi students at universities in the state of Virginia. The number of Saudi students now exceeds the number of students in the academic year 1980/1981, as their number then reached 10,440 according to the International Education Institution in New York, a non-profit organization working with the US State Department. Also, the current figure is double the number of Saudi students in the US in September 2001 when then stood at 5,579. Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the Kingdom's ambassador to the US, said joint education efforts began to increase following the April 2005 meeting between King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, who was Crown Prince then, and US President George Bush in Crawford, Texas. However, according to an official at the US State Department, Saudi students started arriving in large numbers to study in the US in the late 1970's. After 1981, their numbers started to dwindle down as more students were admitted at the Saudi universities and the Saudi government began to focus less on getting international experience. In 2001, bilateral relations were negatively affected to the terrorist attacks in 2001. For several months after the attacks, no Saudi national was granted a student visa. Mazyad said in the following year a limited number got visas. According to the International Education Institute, the number of Saudi students dropped by 25.2 percent in the academic year 2002/2003. With the advent of the academic year 2004/2005, the number of Saudi students reached 3,035. This low figure was never reached since the seventies. According to the State Department, 9,471 Saudi nationals received student visas in the academic year ending Sept. 30. This is a 297 percent increase compared to the number of visas issued in the previous year reaching 2,383.