Sunday, January 13, 2019

Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity By Akbar Ahmad

The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama.In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. An argument in favour of Fukuyama's thesis is the democratic peace theory, which argues that mature democracies rarely or never go to war with one another. This theory has faced criticism, with arguments largely resting on conflicting definitions of "war" and "mature democracy"

The Clash of Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. The American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic extremism would become the biggest threat to world peace.

Akbar Ahmad argues that western world considers Islam as an antithesis to western value. Islam is considered barbaric regressive and archaic religion which is contrary to western ethos of liberalisation, women emancipation, democracy and free speech. They consider Muslim as uncivilised alien who are bent upon polluting their political and social fabric.

On the other hand, Muslim feels that they are being cornered and discriminated due to their religious identity which itself is negation of Liberal values of the west. They think that west has failed to differentiate between modern and radical Islam. The modern Islam is true face of Muslim and radical Islam is the product of western misadventures that range from colonisation of Muslim land, supporting dictatorship in Muslim heartland and suppressing Muslim immigrants.

Akbar Ahmad argues that both Muslim and European are responsible for the current stalemate. European failed to understand that Islamic is civilization is not alien to Europe rather it is in the DNA of European civilization. Spain, not Italy was the cradle of rebirth of European Civilization. Fear has been mutated into hatreds

Islamic scholar failed to remove misperception on women Deomcracy  Jihad etc
Civilization is not bad but it is the education that matters.6 million books in Cordova vs 600in Europe. One Department Produce more research than entire middles east

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