“Eliminate the people,
curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European
Enlightenment is more important than people,” Dostoevsky wrote in his
novel “The Brothers Karamazov”. In this, the author summed up the
justifications for intellectual repression, politically excluding others, and
fighting national values by installing secularists as the legitimate guardians
of democracy, freedom of expression, and the so-called civil state.
اضافة اعلان
Secularism in its essence, as it has been
promoted, does not suppress religious manifestations and does not fight against
individual intellectual freedom. But in the past few years, it is no secret
that advocating a type of secularism — a policy that despises religion in
general — reflects a trend that encourages religion-based repression. As a
result, secularists clearly practice bigotry and prejudice against other races
and civilizations, particularly Muslims.
Oriental dominationAs the renowned Christian scholar and
professor Wael Al-Hallaq explained through an illustration in his book “Sharia:
Theory, Practice, Transformations”, the Western view of Islamic sharia was born
out of colonialism. It could even be argued that there was no sociology of
Islamic sharia as a law for “the other” before the emergence of the colonial
project.
In the past few years, it is no secret that advocating a type of secularism — a policy that despises religion in general — reflects a trend that encourages religion-based repression
Most orientalists were colonial pawns who
sought to promote the idea of inferiority of other peoples. That is why Edward
Said, a prominent Christian professor and researcher of the last century, tried
to reach a general conclusion through his book “Orientalism” by saying that the
facts presented by Orientalists are invalid based on the structural rule that
all knowledge is the product of a certain authority, and that such an authority
does not produce knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but rather for the sake
of interest and domination. This leads, after analysis, to the thought that
Orientalism expresses colonialism.
The spread of secularismThroughout the 1960s, a left-wing political
movement arose in the Middle East, particularly in Jordan. Some of its
supporters had goals to bring about a revolution in Jordan like the Al-Rehab
Massacre in 1958, which was supported and financed by some Arab governments and
resulted in the foundation of the Iraqi Republic.
As the renowned Christian scholar and professor Wael Al-Hallaq explained… the Western view of Islamic sharia was born out of colonialism. It could even be argued that there was no sociology of Islamic sharia as a law for “the other” before the emergence of the colonial project.
This political movement has changed its
face today, mostly to become more adamant about what is known as political
secularism. It has taken over key service institutions, such as universities
and cultural bodies, with supporters working to spread the notion of
Islamophobia using Western funding. In so doing, they have been able to
establish a template for secularism that is hostile to religion, popular
identity, and national unity.
Two warsWild secularism has declared two wars. The
first is a war to support gender equality — but in reality, they only seek to
attack Islamic law, especially legislation that is related to inheritance and
sharia. These secularists overlook the significant financial structure in
Islamic sharia, which includes justice for both men and women, and the
inheritance laws in Islam which depend on the degree of relativeness not on
sex. Meanwhile, they ignore the fact that Islam acknowledged women's
inheritance rights 1,400 years ago.
Islam and Arab culture support the equality of men and women, but wild seculars push for a “silent dialogue”, because their end goal is to spark Islamophobia using general statements and forcing Westernization upon our culture.
Islam and Arab culture support the equality
of men and women, but wild seculars push for a “silent dialogue”, because their
end goal is to spark Islamophobia using general statements and forcing
Westernization upon our culture.
The second war is masked by a push to guarantee
human rights. However, these wild seculars are, in fact building a systematic
policy against others who do not agree with them, working specifically in
Jordan by weakening educational curricula, reducing budgets, and getting rid of
any experts who do not embrace their ideologies.
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