BedTime's Quote[73]:
" A High degree on your wall doesn't mean you know what you are talking about, an ignorant you became, Ibn Warraq, And I once again learn." --[x] [Article on Der Spiegel]
Note: I felt that BriefWord[11.1] was incomplete, so I decided to add more to it, so this is the article #6.2 of my views on Arab and Muslim Nationalist World. For Previous Articles and Writings visit my archives, [x]'s Archives Blog.
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BriefWord[11.2]
A Reformation is to Exhume A Civlization? Part.6.2
"The Koran does not contain a single humane teaching that was not here before Islam. Mankind will not lose a single moral precept if Islam is not there tomorrow. After consulting the Koran, the hadith, the ProphetÂ’s biography, and Islamic history for years, with a guarded, open mind, I related the past to the present. People tried reforming Islam; it never worked. Again and again, Islam was mortgaged in the hands of killer leadership, while the rest of the Muslim world only said “this is not real Islam”."
-- Ibn Warraq from "Leaving Islam", his book.
These are few lines from his book: "Leaving Islam", All I could see is just emotional statements without anything logical. He said "If Islam is not there tomorrow, Mankind won't lose a single moral percept". How about saying instead, "If Islam was not there in the past, there would not be any Western Civilization today", and He metioned the future of it without its past. What gets my attention the most is the reforming statement, which is in red quote. It kept me speechless wondering about the reforming thing I talked about in previous posts.
However, most reforms, that happened during the latest centuries did not really reform Islam, but instead, "They tried to Apply Islam in a Moderate Way under Nationalist Society and System - which has been a Muslim one before a Nationalist". Therefore, eventually these reforms did not give big effects since they are kept overruled by Nationalistic Ideas. These Ideas break the most fundamental Islamic ideology of Unity.
Previously, It's mentioned in Briefword[11.1], that If A Civilization wants to keep its existence it should keep reforming itself according to political, social, and scientific changes. Ibn Warraq does believe that Muslims keep failing to reform their faith plus they claim " It's not the real islam" . That's not true, he is judging the Islamic Reforms within a very short period of a time. If he mentioned the time period in which they failed to reform Islam then I might agree with him.
The Main point, that's meant to be reached, is that Islam needs a strong platform planted in its people to make them aware of their current ideological belief, which is the most important in any social structure. Their current platform, which they function on, is not Islam but half-Secular, Nor Democracy but Democrazy, nor Republic but Dictatorships, nor Caliphate but an old king.
Many reformers goals are to erase tribal traditional belief, religious fanatical extremism, and more. However, these are goals not the methods to be achieved to reform. That's the mistake most reformers make, I believe at least, They show how bad the society is functioning, and then give ideas, which sound as a solution to them, but in fact they are the goals to be reached, not the solution to reach a goal. Many of them have provided some political platforms so their goals can be achieved. For example, in Iraq reformers from the West or Arab World are trying hard to apply Democracy, Women Rights, and so on. They believe that by applying these platforms, they can reach the goals they always dream of.
Mr.Bush talks a lot on daily basis about Freedom Values, New World Order, and Democracy beside his boring topic "Terrorism". He has failed to apply his and many "Modernized Arabs" dreams. He might succeed to apply these platforms, but eventually they won't last long, instead he will create another Egypt. Egypt had in the past this Freedom, Democracy, Arabism ideologies running around, they erased tribalist ideology, but they got even worse by erasing the tribalist ideology because their society transformed into an advanced tribalist system which is basically Nationalism mixed with Western political social ideologies and Islam. The Egyptian society were dissolved into all these and weakened socially by having weaker family relations, more materialistic social values, that might be also due weak economical status. The same can be seen in North Middle eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan, and more.
Arabs or Islamic Reformers under Western Influences are not creating another America, or France, or England as they are wishing, but unfortunately another Egypt. As Arabs call it "Earth's Mother" just a nationalistic expression.
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What kind of platform do we really need to make the society gets back to its old belief and original faith with a different approach to apply it? "
The platform should be an ideology applied in between two things: 'The way to Awakening a Nation' and 'The Reformers goals' like a compiler in the computers between its hardwares and its softwares. Nothing more to say but remain again quiet thinking. Unfortunately, I am arab but I was born speechless.
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Previous: BriefWord[11.1]
Future:
-Mocking-LifeSystem[9] [Valentine Around the World] or [Boycott The Buzz world]
-Poem; Of A Man and The Fog.
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