http://www.jeffersoncorner.com/the-arabs-what-went-wrong/ America's Speaker's Corner Fri, 03 May 2013 06:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.jeffersoncorner.com/the-arabs-what-went-wrong/#comment-3547 sjadallah Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:09:53 +0000 http://www.jeffersoncorner.com/the-arabs-what-went-wrong/#comment-3547 Thank Lenya…. salam.. you are so right… the Arab culture was enriched by other culture and personally I could not say it is unique to Arabs, but a contribution of all the people and faiths in the region… I think the biggest danger to the Arabs is not external but internal. Rather than scientists, educators, intellectuals, artists, economists taking the lead to rebuild the nation, we see uneducated, ignorant people with narrow minds taking the lead… True, Islam should be an inspiring source of political formation of a new order, however Islam must not be the only source…The future strength of the Arab world lies in making sure that all people irrespective of faith and ethnicity have a stake in the future system…Now there is a need for true thinkers to take their place and lead rather than hid and side with discredited regimes… I think the biggest danger to Islam and Arabs is the “Talmudisation” of Islam by the ever expanding clergy who are emerging as the “nobility” of old regimes…

]]> http://www.jeffersoncorner.com/the-arabs-what-went-wrong/#comment-3546 Lenya Biyat Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:36:19 +0000 http://www.jeffersoncorner.com/the-arabs-what-went-wrong/#comment-3546 The new Rennaissance you are talking about or the Arab Spring as others call it seems to be turning into an even more sinister face of radical Islamism. When I read on the history of Arab culture I can see the rich history and diversity, in the past, but as I read further on the enrichment you speak of in Islamism seem to be also the start of the slide of the Arab rich culture and diversity spiralling into an abyss that has continued to today. Islam instead of taking the rich Arab history and culture into more heightened diversities of science , education arts, etc, seem to have gone the other way. Yes the sweep of the Muslim conquests into the western world spread the rich Arab culture into those regions but this was in the early years of Islam when the older generations of Arab learned men and women were still thriving…as new Arab translators of the Koran and new writers of Islamic Hadiths emerged so did the decline of the rich Arab culture. So from my perspective Islam has not made things better for the Arab people but rather the opposite.

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