Muslims World Failures is not the West's Fault 'Islam Bigger Impact Than Imperlaism'

Islam Faces a New Era
by Munawar A. Anees
1999, Civilization Magazine
Today's Muslim world is also being betrayed by a similar intellectual passivity regarding the Internet, the dynamo of the next Renaissance. While the French fight an uphill battle to prevent English from laying siege to the French-speaking world via the Net, none of the major Muslim languages plays a major role in this huge knowledge machine. Equally conspicuous is the absence of Muslim countries from one of history's greatest scientific endeavors, the Human Genome Project. Islam is not intrinsically opposed to ideals of justice, equality, and human dignity. It is folly to assume that technological sophistication or economic prosperity need weaken, or run counter to, religious belief. Meanwhile, at some distance from the ivory tower lies the grim reality of much of the Muslim world: poverty; mass illiteracy; want of basic hygiene and primary health facilities; lack of fundamental liberties of religion and speech; little protection from state persecution.
Mahathir urges Muslims to rethink on terrorism
by Tim Colebatch
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called for a campaign by "responsible Muslims" to recast the war against terrorism as outlawing "armed attacks against civilians", no matter who carries them out... Condemning Palestinian suicide bombers and the Israeli Army equally as guilty of terrorism, Dr Mahathir set out to define a middle ground on which Muslim countries could return to the global mainstream after the "unmitigated disaster" of September 11. Attacks against civilians must be regarded as acts of terror... Groups or governments that support attacks on civilians must be regarded as terrorists, irrespective of the justification of the operations carried out... Those supporting them, including governments, should also be condemned, he said.

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