This is the phenomenon of what I call 'negative islam', and it is rife in Muslim communities in the West. This is a dynamic inherently set up for conflict. Where your very identity is one of differentiation, any attempt to look for points of connection, to build bridges, very quickly becomes an act of treachery. Accordingly, it is now common in the Muslim conversation for ideas and arguments to be dismissed on the grounds not that they lack merit, but that they are 'Western', and hence automatically a corupting, 'un-islamic' influence.
Waleed Aly
People Like Us;
How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West
Picador 2007
2 comments:
true and as suppose to those whom embrace everything western and appreciate all what it has to offer.
Or reaching a stand on issues (regardless of what others around us believe) based on our own reliable resources. To attain these conclusion independant of the 'Wests' (i dont like using this word) view on certain specific issues.
It is a whole different argument about what to take from ‘them’ and what to reject.
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