Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Modernising Islam or Islamization of modernity?

Faced with the horrific wave of violence against Christians in Iraq and Egypt, we can not ask questions about the causes that created them. And we must look not only to Iraq and Egypt, but to analyze the problems in other countries to get an overall picture of the situation. The real causes of these changes are primarily the democratic decadence, oppression and political problems.

A wave of confusion and chaos is invading the Arab world. Many countries are seeing increasing domestic violence, ferocious, making the soil more fertile, more extensive changes in the authoritarian sense. Signs of Revolution appear to Tunisia and Algeria followed by disturbances in other Arab countries, to Jordan.

Political repression and lack of a genuine desire to do any kind of reform are the root causes of radical transformation. A simple glance at the map of the Middle East clearly shows the transformation of the region towards a deep root. A dramatic scene from Afghanistan to Pakistan, from Somalia to Iraq (against the Muslims themselves), the Red Sea up to Yemen and the attacks in Egypt.

Extremism is a serious threat to the whole world. So a question would extend to all of us, we are ready to face new and fierce movements of radicalism? We must realize that today the politics of exclusion which denies the socio-economic needs of the people is the main factor of the birth of the terrorists.

Therefore, we should overcome the institutional weakness of civil society, ensuring the fortification of the structures of the companies themselves, and above all a real push for political reform. The methods of military security can not counter radicalization. The only way projects are the development and implementation of integration processes in Arab countries, but keep in mind the contradictions in the European Union programs that relate to the Arab countries always criticized for the lack of democracy.

But then it turns out that in the Arab political participation exists and that the "civil society" is very active and is often in conflict with their national institutions, with which European countries are closely related. And then in a contradictory manner refuses to acknowledge these aspects.

The subject world today is Islam, which is compared, discussed, watched by all sides as if it were the source of all problems. We speak of Islam as we speak of a culture, a history, an ideology, a system of government and even a lifestyle. All this has raised again the question about the possibility of an Islam compatible with the lifestyle of today.

Many want to know if this is the real obstacle that hinders coexistence and understanding between the peoples of Eastern and Western. A distance of thinking and analysis is increasing worldwide and is creating two teams ready to clash soon as the opportunity presents itself. To have some questions, others are necessary, even for many threats to modernize Islam or Islamisation of modernity? Today, globalization, paradoxically, from its proclaimed goal, created barriers and walls between different cultures, a remarkable turnaround to a conservatism that isolates people in their geographical boundaries, where the closure and fundamentalism characterize the present life of man .

This contradicts the stated aim of modernity, producing consequences that could jeopardize the future of all humanity. Unfortunately, in today's world the stereotype of the word "religion" is related to being intolerant, arrogant and biased to any change. The only way out is to work to raise the level of political consciousness and cultural development of nationals of developing countries: what will make them active participants in projects that aim to improve the situation in their countries and will have a positive effect on the rest the world.

Only that we could ensure a society in which men and women are valued, and so you can accept the other and above all different from us. For this would be a great mistake to think the attacks against Christians or the waves of domestic violence or even the revolution of the Maghreb as individual acts.

It serves instead to analyze the whole situation there deteriorated. Thus, the secular France should not present himself as the defender of the rights of a religious minority, but defend the rights of all without distinction. He is wrong who thinks that the revolt of the Algerian people in Tunisia and now is a spontaneous act of refusal.

Today, European scholars are invited to immerse themselves in the feeling of these repressed nations to lay hands on the seeds of revolution and rebellion that developed slowly and silently. In several countries, including Tunisia and Algeria, the winds of revolution turn into the winds of change to become a real storm that surprises everyone, first the dominant forces inside and outside of his friends.

In addition, these revolts certainly will not stop these countries, but spread to some other, in a movement of which we do not see the end.

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