Timeline for How do I deal with a candidate mentioning God twelve times in their application?
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| Jul 25, 2020 at 18:22 | comment | added | bandybabboon | Turkey has a uni rated at about 500 and egypt has one ranked 700 amist world universities. Even after the difficult alphabet was transferred to print in the 1780's for the first arabic printed presses, the theological tradition meant that much of science concencus on biology, astronomy and so forth is still not taught seriously in many arabic schools as of 2020. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | Emilio M Bumachar | @user111388: Maybe no one would be so silly as to write the reason down in the rejection email, but some would, say, openly speculate about using that reason, on the internet no less, prior to potentially using it. OP's account is certainly not a throwaway. Maybe the applicant does browse SE. I agree that getting caught would be unlikely, but not vanishingly so. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore.: Thanks for the compliment, but what I had to contribute was more as comments than as an answer to OP. Also, my knowledge of Arab and Islamic culture is sufficient to know that I don't know enough... | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | user96809 | @einpoklum It seems to me that an answer by you would be extremely useful for readers here. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 10:59 | comment | added | einpoklum | The opening phrase "In the name of God the most merciful..." is not quite the same as talking about God. It is customary for devout muslims (in some cultures) to start all formal letters and addresses with this phrase, regardless of the content. It's almost like a "Dear Sir" and "Sincerely" in formal letters. It's not quite that - of course it has a religious connotation and is not rheotrically necessary - but the authors would probably not know what you're talking about if you tell them they "talked about God" in the paper. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 7:27 | comment | added | user111388 | I don't think anyone would be so silly do "write this as a reason for rejecting a candidate". | |
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| Jul 24, 2020 at 1:26 | history | answered | markemus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |