News for today's 2018

KOSOVO AND RADICAL ISLAM

3:05 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9OsDzP272Nbbgf_3GupjlbWzi6Mf7913irHCI_vyIsAmESNpOMlXzwMu99b0p-bCkosvn6E2qdJaBe08L3EVk7azYqlcXpB2y2mMBeEFABOXdmOgmRNrGbC5czkUkR3hQfUMwW4QcDnk/s1600/KosovoIslam.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9OsDzP272Nbbgf_3GupjlbWzi6Mf7913irHCI_vyIsAmESNpOMlXzwMu99b0p-bCkosvn6E2qdJaBe08L3EVk7azYqlcXpB2y2mMBeEFABOXdmOgmRNrGbC5czkUkR3hQfUMwW4QcDnk/s320/KosovoIslam.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HOW RADICAL ISLAM INFILTRATES KOSOVO</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">by Stephen Schwartz</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan ended, followed by Eid-Ul-Fitr, the "festival of fast-breaking" that usually involves three days of celebration, this year in KOSOVO, Eid Ul-Fitr was accompanied by an impressive journalistic feat: a team of investigative reporters published a four-part dossier on the country's Muslims, titled "RADICALIZATION OF ISLAM: REAL THREAT OR PHOBIA?"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The first installment appeared in KOSOVO'S most respected newspaper, <i>Koha Ditore</i> (<i>Daily Times</i>). It was re-reported by other print media in KOSOVO and ALBANIA, and posted on numerous websites, producing a considerable debate.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SAUDI-BASED WAHHABI GROUP OPERATING IN WESTERN EUROPE EXERCISES ALARMING FINANCIAL INFLUENCE OVER THE HIGHEST KOSOVO ISLAMIC LEADERS</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Bylined by Artan Haraqija and Visar Duriqi of the KOSOVO Center for Investigative Reporting, the study vindicated critics of Islamist ideological incursion in the territory. It found a SAUDI-based <b>Wahhabi</b> group operating in WESTERN EUROPE exercises alarming financial influence over the highest KOSOVO Islamic leaders. KOSOVO'S principal Muslim cleric, Naim Tërnava, has been accused of affinities with and backing from <b>Wahhabi</b>elements inside SAUDI ARABIA. The KOSOVO investigative journalists showed that Tërnava's religious administration approved payments for local mosques by Al Waqf Al Islami (AWAI – The Islamic Foundation), based in Jeddah.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information: </span></u></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See <span style="color: blue;"><b>E</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">xtremists establish foothold in the Balkans </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/kosovo.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Six part dossier on Wahhabism</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/wahhabism-in-bosnia-herzegovina.html </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A private Muslim missionary entity maintained unofficially by figures in the SAUDI government, AWAI has a minor profile in the U.S. but is well known in EUROPE. The NETHERLANDS General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) investigated AWAI in 2002-03 and linked it to one of the most notorious radical mosques in HOLLAND, the Al-Fourkaan (Standard of Truth) mosque in Eindhoven. In 2010, the BULGARIAN branch of AWAI was shut down by the authorities, and in June 2012, thirteen BULGARIAN-TURKISH members of the group were <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2012/Jun-18/177269-bulgaria-charges-13-with-illegal-islamist-activities.ashx">charged</a>with illegal Islamist activities.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Representatives of the Islamic Community of KOSOVO (ICK), the official Sunni religious institution directed by Tërnava, admitted receiving money from AWAI, when questioned by the KOSOVO reporters. In the most controversial example, AWAI transferred about $25,000—a considerable sum in a land where the average salary is $260 per month, according to the U.S. <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/100931.htm">State Department</a>—for erection of a mosque in the village of Bajqina near the northeastern city of Podujeva.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ahmet Sadriu, director of media and publishing for the ICK, stipulated, "We have cooperation with Al Waqf Al Islami." He said the ARAB group's KOSOVO director, a SAUDI doctor named Abdur Rezak, "allocated the money that was then sent to the Islamic Community local council in Podujeva. I don't know anything about links to terrorism. These issues belong to the state," Sadriu said. He added, "A lot of projects for construction and reconstruction of mosques have been undertaken with this organization."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WAHHABISM TRYING TO GET A FOOTHOLD IN KOSOVO</span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While $25,000 may not seem much, the subsidy provoked anger among Podujeva Muslims. The Bajqina mosque plan was temporarily blocked by the Podujeva head of the ICK, imam Idriz Bilalli, an outspoken moderate, who suspected it was intended as a center for extremist agitation. The ICK bureaucrats in Prishtina then dismissed Bilalli from his post. The Bajqina mosque is to be led by imam Fadil Sogojeva, currently assigned to the mosque in Kodra i Diellit (Sunny Hill), a residential neighborhood in Prishtina, the KOSOVO capital. Imam Sogojeva confirmed that he had received money for his Bajqina mosque from AWAI indirectly, through the Islamic functionaries in Prishtina.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The moderate Bilalli, in an interview with the journalists, accused Sogojeva of going to the Podujeva district to "cause division and confusion," leading to "destructive attitudes in the mosque." Sogojeva, who studied in SAUDI ARABIA, admitted his retrograde attitudes candidly. He declared that in the past a KOSOVO woman would not enter a room without permission from her husband, and stated that he would not shake hands with "any" woman to whom he was not related. On his Facebook page and in YouTube sermons, Sogojeva opined that KOSOVO girls should not wear sandals without socks, since "the leg, as one of the body parts which stimulates emotion, should not be uncovered." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sogojeva told the investigative reporters he did not favor a sudden shift to fundamentalism, but, rather, "after some time, after having worked with the congregation, in order to properly explain the religion. ALBANIAN Muslims in KOSOVO currently are in the first grade," he added patronizingly. KOSOVO ALBANIANS have been Muslim for more than 600 years, a matter <b>Wahhabis</b>disregard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The reporters also reviewed the 2009 assault on Osman Musliu, a moderate cleric in the region of Drenas, known for its strong ALBANIAN nationalism. Musliu characterized the <b>Wahhabis</b> at the time as "sick, psychotic people, who aim to destroy the Islamic Community of KOSOVO." The attack on Musliu was one in a spat of such incidents.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> In the second part of their series, Haraqija and Duriqi noted that KOSOVO was defined as a secular republic in a legislative decision approved at the end of Ramadan last year. Atifete Jahjaga, president of the republic, is a woman of Muslim origin who does not wear an Islamic headscarf (<i>hijab</i>) or otherwise indulge in "religious" dress. As she told a Warsaw regional summit audience in May 2011, "Islam is a relationship of the individual with God, and not of the individual with the state."</span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IMAM SHEFQET KRASNIQI AND THE KOSOVO FLAG: "THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD" TO BE INSCRIBED IN ARABIC ON THE KOSOVO FLAG, AS IT IS ON THE SAUDI NATIONAL BANNER AND THE TALIBAN EQUIVALENT</span></b></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">   </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFl23Qkm4e5w6vSskKoTTeGfS44Fu1450B9P9aneueKQb6yUvmYcqn96a4qOSURY-pDuxkWqXtaBDH9mUEsdeM0dx5qZ6tuJIdJi8gADjMuCNuLyOJdHINbyPjzwgGNGvntGeO6vD2i21S/s1600/4213520764_2bd84d4170.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFl23Qkm4e5w6vSskKoTTeGfS44Fu1450B9P9aneueKQb6yUvmYcqn96a4qOSURY-pDuxkWqXtaBDH9mUEsdeM0dx5qZ6tuJIdJi8gADjMuCNuLyOJdHINbyPjzwgGNGvntGeO6vD2i21S/s320/4213520764_2bd84d4170.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wahhabis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, of course, disagree loudly. Shefqet Krasniqi, imam of the main, Imperial Mosque in Prishtina, and infamous for his vulgar attacks on Mother Teresa, has called for the Islamic formula "There Is No God But God" to be inscribed in ARABIC on the KOSOVO flag, as it is on the SAUDI national banner and the Taliban equivalent. His cohort in KOSOVO complain that, with KOSOVO governed by a woman who does not wear <i>hijab</i>, the populace is destined to "hellfire."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Similarly, a radical imam, Mazllam Mazllami from the major city of Prizren, who was expelled from the Islamic Community and then reinstated at the order of ICK chief Tërnava, has warned that men and women should not go to the beach together, since they may socialize in swimwear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The third article in the Haraqija-Duriqi investigative series disclosed that Kastriot Duka, alias Xhemajl Duka, a self-anointed cleric from Elbasan in Albania proper, had defied KOSOVO law by returning to the republic after he was deported in 2010. Duka founded a mosque in the village of Marina near the north-central KOSOVO city of Skenderaj in 2002 with money from a BRITISH-based Islamist charity, Rahma (Mercy). Established in 1999, Rahma (Mercy) has targeted ALBANIA and KOSOVO specifically but is a <b>paramilitary organization</b> made up of SOUTH ASIAN BRITISH Muslims following <b>Deobandism</b>, the <b>Wahhabi</b>-aligned sect that inspires the <b>Taliban</b>. In Skenderaj, however, 6,000 citizens of the district signed a petition calling for closure of Duka's mosque because of features including an Islamic primary school in which small girls were required to wear the SAUDI-style face-veil (<i>niqab</i>) and full body covering (<i>abaya</i>).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Duka has, nevertheless, re-entered KOSOVO several times, while Rahma (Mercy) continues to convey money to his admirers, through bank transfers as well as private couriers. One of Duka's disciples, identified only as H.K., admitted, "Halil, with an ARAB family name, came first from ENGLAND. . . . There were times when the deposits passed through the bank . . . or were delivered in KOSOVO."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">KOSOVO JUDICIAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE MONITORED WAHHABI ACTIVITIES TO PREEMPT TERROR PLOTS</span></b></span></div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">   </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The work of Artan Haraqija and Visar Duriqi includes a survey of Islamist indoctrination in the "new style" of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party in TURKEY. But above all, they have made a valuable and courageous contribution in tracing the influence of Islamist money in a vulnerable community.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to the reporters, KOSOVO judicial investigators have monitored <b>Wahhabi</b>activities to preempt terror plots, following the assaults on moderate clerics and other violent incidents over the past three years. The KOSOVO police have prepared a three-page memorandum, to which the journalists gained access, warning, "<b>Wahhabis</b> can kill any Muslim that does not join their sect, and they are spreading across the republic."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Anti-Islamist action by the KOSOVO authorities has been blocked by the international community, which has final control of the legal system. Trials of Islamist conspirators by the Kosovo judiciary are quashed by the foreign administration. Bajram Rexhepi, the republic's current interior minister, recalls that in 2003-04, when he was prime minister and "new and radical currents controlled no mosques and had no influence," he proposed a draft law against religious extremism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But, Rexhepi told the reporters plaintively, "I was told by the Council of EUROPE in Strasbourg we could be sued for denial of religious freedom. . . . I asked [the EUROPEANS] 'if your states were to consider their national security at risk because of this problem, would you maintain such abstract respect for human rights? Probably not. Then why experiment on us in KOSOVO?' "</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>

KOSOVO AND RADICAL ISLAM

HOW RADICAL ISLAM INFILTRATES KOSOVO by Stephen Schwartz As the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan ended, followed by Eid-Ul-Fitr, the "f...

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/07/2012

12:30 PM Tukiyooo 0

<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/10/neil_armstrongs_parents_appear_on_the_classic_american_tv_show_ive_got_a_secret_1962.html">Neil Armstrong’s Parents Appear on the Classic American TV Show “I’ve Got a Secret,” 1962</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Shown the day Neil Armstrong was named an astronaut, there is a telling moment where his parents were asked "How would you feel if your son were the first one to step foot on the moon." Such videos are available for free. I love the Open Culture site for finding cool things like this.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/scichat">scichat</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science_teacher">science_teacher</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-171.html">Congress.gov Unveiled | News Releases - Library of Congress</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">"The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Government Printing Office (GPO), today unveiled Congress.gov, a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. Congress.gov features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation. Congress.gov, at beta.congress.gov, eventually will replace the public THOMAS system and the congressional Legislative Information System (LIS)." </p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialstudies">socialstudies</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history_teacher">history_teacher</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/currentevents">currentevents</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sschat">sschat</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2012/10/03/free-online-a-new-educational-guide-for-studying-louisianas-coastal-crisis/">FREE ONLINE: A New Educational Guide for Studying Louisiana’s Coastal Crisis – DEN Blog Network</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">A new set of videos and guides are available to talk about Louisiana's coastal issues. This overview by Susan Gauthier on the Discovery Ed website is a good one for science teachers who teach about the Gulf of Mexico.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/green">green</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/environment">environment</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/scichat">scichat</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/10/google-world-teachers-day/">Google Announces 100 Live Hangouts For Teachers Around The World</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">This is a big deal. Daily hangouts aimed at teachers have been launched by Google. I'm not sure who they have recruited to run these sessions, but if they tap into the right networks, these could be a big deal. Check out this article from edudemic to find out dates and times. </p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/07/2012

Neil Armstrong’s Parents Appear on the Classic American TV Show “I’ve Got a Secret,” 1962 Shown the ...

Sharing Medical Records With Patients - NYTimes.com

10:44 AM Tukiyooo 0

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The patient, a wiry businessman in his 50s, needed a copy of his medical records to bring to a specialist for a second opinion. He assumed that getting the copies would be straightforward; the records were, after all, his.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But after multiple trips to his doctor's office and the hospital and several days of missed work, he learned otherwise. At the hospital, after spending the good part of a morning hunting down the right person to process his request, he learned that signing the requisite permission forms was not enough. He would have to pay for the copies that would take several days to put together. Those copies turned out to be incomplete, so he had to wait another few days, and pay more, for copies of the missing pages.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At his doctor's office, the staff and then his own physician had responded to his request by asking him why he even needed his records. "I told them the truth, that I wanted a second opinion, but it was more than a little awkward," he recalled. "I'm not sure if my doctor will treat me differently from now on."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"It's like they and the hospital were doing everything they could to make it harder for me," he said.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Two weeks later, dossier in hand, he swore he would never let it out of his sight. But, he added, "I can't say that this whole experience has given me a lot of confidence in my doctor or my hospital."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This patient's experience, like those of so many others who have tried to obtain their medical records, came to mind this week when I read about the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27chen.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">long-awaited results of a study</a> in which patients were given complete access to their doctors' notes. The findings, <a href="http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1363511" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">published in the Annals of Internal Medicine</a>, do more than shed light on what patients want. They make our current ideas about transparency in the patient-doctor relationship a quaint artifact of the past.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Since 1996, when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or Hipaa, patients have had the right to read and even amend their own records.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In fact, few patients have ever consulted their own records. Most do not fully grasp the extent of their legal rights; and the few who have attempted to exercise them have often found themselves mired in a parallel universe filled with administrative regulations, small-print permission forms, added costs and repeated delays.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Many physicians also remained hesitant to share their notes, part of the patient's records, because of concerns that such openness might have harmful effects on both their patients' well-being and their own practices. Some worried that mention of minor abnormalities in laboratory values - for example, a slightly elevated prostate specific antigen or white blood cell count - could cause patients to worry unduly about some dread disease.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Other doctors feared that common medical abbreviations like "SOB" (shortness of breath) or "anorexic" (lack of appetite) could be misinterpreted. Still others imagined that writing notes with patient readers in mind would only complicate the process, adding to the already Sisyphean administrative demands of practice and inviting an onslaught of patient e-mails and calls for extended consultations.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Those fears, it now turns out, were largely unfounded.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For one year, the study, aptly called <a href="http://www.myopennotes.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">OpenNotes</a>, allowed over 13,000 patients from three medical centers - the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., and the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle - to have complete access to one part of their medical records, the notes that doctors wrote about them. Within days of seeing their doctors, patients received an e-mail inviting them to read the doctor's signed note on a secure patient Web site. Two weeks before their return visit, patients received a second e-mail inviting them again to review their doctor's note from the previous encounter.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">After a year, almost all the patients were enthusiastic about the OpenNotes initiative.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Surprisingly, so were the majority of doctors.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Approximately three-quarters of all the doctors said that such transparency had none of the dreaded impacts on their practice. Many felt there was more trust, better communication, more shared decision-making and increased patient satisfaction. While a portion of the doctors were hesitant at the beginning of the study, not a single one opted to stop sharing notes with patients after the study ended.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Their fears simply never materialized," said Jan Walker, one of the two lead authors and a registered nurse and health services researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There were several surprising results for patients, as well. While many said they felt more in control of their own care, up to almost 80 percent of the patients said that reading their doctors' notes helped them to take their medications more regularly and better follow their doctors' treatment recommendations. Furthermore, having access to their doctors' notes became so important that nearly all of the patients said any future decisions regarding doctors or hospitals would be predicated on being able to access their records easily.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">All three hospitals in the study are working to allow those patients who participated to continue to have access to their doctors' notes. Beth Israel Deaconess, which already allows all patients to view their test results on a secure patient Web site, plans to expand the program even further over the coming year, becoming one of the first hospitals in the country to allow all patients open access to notes from not only their doctors but also their nurses and all other health care providers.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And in what may signal even wider adoption of this new vision of transparency, representatives from several national health care groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, will be <a href="http://www.myopennotes.org/save-the-date-opennotes-summit-on-october-11th/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">meeting in Washington next week</a> to discuss the study results and ways of implementing similar programs in other institutions.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"On the one hand, we call this the 'new medicine,'" said Dr. Tom Delbanco, the other lead author and a primary care physician who is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "But we're also just giving patients what is already their right."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">He added: "It's as we say: <em>Nothing about me without me</em>."</div></div><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/letting-patients-read-the-doctors-notes/?src=recg&pagewanted=print">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/letting-patients-read-the-doctors-notes/?src=recg&pagewanted=print</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Sharing Medical Records With Patients - NYTimes.com

The patient, a wiry businessman in his 50s, needed a copy of his medical records to bring to a specialist for a second opinion. He assumed t...

KOSOVO AND RADICAL ISLAM

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/07/2012

Sharing Medical Records With Patients - NYTimes.com

Ads

Archive