Displaying 31 - 40 of 103.
An article that challenges the idea that democracy is a Western concept. CAWU discussion“Freedom of expression and respect for ‘the other’ How to respond if one is offended?
Arabic and Western thinking was impacted by the theories of Huntington, Fokoyama and Bernard Lewis who made the clash between cultures and the end of history something inevitable. Current events were explained in the view of theses theories. However, we need to consider deeply what is going on...
Western countries, led by the USA, are committing a great historical sin, if they keep making decisions for the future at a disturbed time. They have the right to protect their interests, but to insist on drawing a picture of the future now is a real danger for the whole world. We are all in the...
During the last few weeks, Americans ask why Muslims hate America? Sometimes the word "Muslims" was replaced by "the world." Muslims in their turn should ask themselves does what happened recently affected their image and their good relationships with non-Muslims in Arabic countries and all over...
The ignorance about Islam and Muslims, which now prevails in the West, did not appear suddenly after the attacks of September 11. Many things happened in the West attracting Muslims’ attention to the growing danger against Islam. Still, the Islamic institutions did not take any steps forward. They...
The events of September 11 revived the theory of dividing the world into two parties, namely, the West and the others and that there is no future for the people of the East, unless they submit completely to westernization and abandoned their identity. However, the unique coexistence between Muslims...
The author commented on Berlusconi’s attack on Islam, saying that he seemed to have forgotten that terrorism in the name of religion was a European product that appeared in the European Middle Ages. While Europe was dwelling under terrorism in the Middle Ages, the Islamic civilization flourished...
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
The article deals with the differences between the way Islam is practiced in the Arabic countries and the way it is practiced in the Islamic Asian countries. It points out the dangers of Asiatic Islam. The author believes that Arabic Islam should reform Asiatic Islam, so that it does not turn into...
The author of this article reviews three books written in a way he thinks is objective about Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Muslims, stressing that not all Western writers are unfair to Islam.

Pages

Subscribe to