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There is nothing wrong with the Islamic identity (Islam and cooperation)
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Islam orders people via Quran to co-operate, to be helpful to one another according to goodness and piety but not helpful for evil and malice (Verse 2 in sura 5). This principle of co-operation is assured by prophet Mohammed, on the local level whatever is your neighbor: Muslim or non-Muslim. Surely this principle can be extended on the international level where a neighboring country can be defined as any country which is having a normal economic and political relations with the Islamic world.
A distorted image of Islam and Arabs has unfortunately been a feature of the American and Hollywood films and some Western media for over a century. 280 million Arabs and over one billion Muslims (almost 25 per cent of the world's populations) have been so grossly misunderstood. Arab and Muslims leaders as well as people have to work on changing or correcting the image of themselves in the Western world. But Western countries must also be able to accept the real image of Arab and Islam and prove that they can peacefully live and deal with people and nations of different identities, cultures and religions. They do not need to feel that their own society is superior and any society that does not try to emulate their own is substandard or inferior. Fundamentalists or terrorists are not Islam. There is nothing wrong if a modern Muslim pray five times a day and does not eat pork or drink alcohol! Islam is not a threat for anybody or any nation. Islam is the religion of mercy, justice, tolerance and honoring of promises and pledges. It encourages people to become acquainted with one another, promotes dialogue, directs people to be gentle and polite when engaged in an argument.
In the past, the Muslim community mingled with other civilizations, absorbing what was seen as useful and rejecting what was seen as not. In such a manner did progress occur in many different ways - cultural, political, social, economic. If that was possible in the past, it is also possible today. Keeping its identity, the Muslim community is not incapable of dealing with the modern and global era. There is nothing wrong if a Muslim makes use of anything that can strengthen his/her Islamic and intellectual identity and protect his/her society. Indeed, this is what is wanted at a time when cultures are clashing with one another. This often happens in the West. The French and the British, in fact, are openly suspicious of American values projected so appealingly by Hollywood. Consequently, they reject them; Asian societies, particularly the Chinese and Japanese, do the same.
Islam orders people via Quran to co-operate, to be helpful to one another according to goodness and piety but not helpful for evil and malice (Verse 2 in sura 5). This principle of co-operation is assured by prophet Mohammed, on the local level whatever is your neighbor: Muslim or non-Muslim. Surely this principle can be extended on the international level where a neighboring country can be defined as any country which is having a normal economic and political relations with the Islamic world.
A distorted image of Islam and Arabs has unfortunately been a feature of the American and Hollywood films and some Western media for over a century. 280 million Arabs and over one billion Muslims (almost 25 per cent of the world's populations) have been so grossly misunderstood. Arab and Muslims leaders as well as people have to work on changing or correcting the image of themselves in the Western world. But Western countries must also be able to accept the real image of Arab and Islam and prove that they can peacefully live and deal with people and nations of different identities, cultures and religions. They do not need to feel that their own society is superior and any society that does not try to emulate their own is substandard or inferior. Fundamentalists or terrorists are not Islam. There is nothing wrong if a modern Muslim pray five times a day and does not eat pork or drink alcohol! Islam is not a threat for anybody or any nation. Islam is the religion of mercy, justice, tolerance and honoring of promises and pledges. It encourages people to become acquainted with one another, promotes dialogue, directs people to be gentle and polite when engaged in an argument.
In the past, the Muslim community mingled with other civilizations, absorbing what was seen as useful and rejecting what was seen as not. In such a manner did progress occur in many different ways - cultural, political, social, economic. If that was possible in the past, it is also possible today. Keeping its identity, the Muslim community is not incapable of dealing with the modern and global era. There is nothing wrong if a Muslim makes use of anything that can strengthen his/her Islamic and intellectual identity and protect his/her society. Indeed, this is what is wanted at a time when cultures are clashing with one another. This often happens in the West. The French and the British, in fact, are openly suspicious of American values projected so appealingly by Hollywood. Consequently, they reject them; Asian societies, particularly the Chinese and Japanese, do the same.