الإسلام والغرب: نحو عالم أفضل

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important segments of the Arab population, namely youth and women. Only with a considerable mass of educated people can the West achieve peace with Islam. Bruno Guiderdoni hints at the limits of modern science and thus invites the mind to humbly contemplate, meditate and envisage other ways of reaching equilibrium in our cosmos. Abu Yaarab El-Marzouqi points at the obstacles that hamper Muslims in their dialogue among themselves and with others. For lack of a clear representation of what is the true nature of the conflict that opposes them to the West, Muslims will fail in their dialog. Mounir Shafik debunks the contradictions of globalization and concludes that the space it opens is not appropriate for a genuine dialogue between the peoples of the world. For Burhan Ghalioun, it is necessary to outgrow the limits of religious visions of the world to break free from the shackles of local identities, and consequently build up for a "world ethics". Hassan Mekki ascribes the causes of the discontent in the relation between the West and the world of Islam to Western hegemony and the West's unconditional support for Israel. Abdullah Annafissi believes that Western aggression does not only target the Muslims lands, but also their religion and value system. To fend off this aggression, Muslims must take more daring initiatives in the new global context. Abdelhamid Youyou advocates the idea that Westerners and Muslims do mutually ignore one another. He expounds the epistemological obstacles that prevent them from achieving lucidity when it comes to the image of the "other." The participants' ideas and propositions were thoroughly discussed, questioned, corroborated or rebutted. Whatever their difference in opinion, or of perspective, the participants in the forum expressed a common firm belief in the importance and value of their gathering. By this token, they unanimously reiterated the urgency of a follow-up forum.

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