The Continuing Education and Development Center at the University of Basrah organized a workshop about” the orientation of the community and protecting it from calls and manifestations of decay and deviance.
The objectives of the workshop are to raise awareness and change attitudes in Arab and Islamic communities, emphasizing the importance of preserving religious values, social norms, and cultural, and ethical values. and recognized the malicious intent of these calls, whose goal was to introduce Arab children into a vortex of conflict between their existing norms, values, habits, and traditions.
The workshop, which was presented by Dr. Khawla Hassan Al-Oboudi, included” the orientation of the community and protecting it from calls and manifestations of decay and deviance.
To prevent the infiltration of such culture into some members of our communities without our awareness, it is essential to develop innovative strategies to safeguard moral standards and social behavior, or at the very least, to counter the risks associated with promoting homosexuality. Given the significant risks it poses to children and youth, it is widely agreed that confronting campaigns promoting deviance has become an urgent necessity. These campaigns represent violations of the culture, identity, ethical values, customs, and traditions of Arab societies and nations. Moreover, they are regarded as an assault on human dignity, independence, and freedom.
Moreover, the workshop clarified more issues including the philosophy of prohibiting sexual deviation, ways to address it, and the challenges posed by campaigns promoting sexual deviation. It also discussed the means of treatment, responsibilities, and the danger of global campaigns promoting sexual deviation.
Furthermore, the workshop provided advice and suggestions for families to protect their children from the dangers of this condemnable act (sexual deviation, a psychological disorder that requires treatment).
At the end of the workshop, the presenter recommended necessity the need for real-world and online efforts to immunize individuals against messages promoting and supporting sexual deviation, especially in content and activities like electronic games, smartphone apps, smart devices, cartoons, series, movies, and popular content on social media platforms. It also stressed the importance of clarifying the stance of religions and virtues rejecting sexual deviation and promoting accurate awareness to counter propaganda.
