الإسلام والغرب: نحو عالم أفضل

Islam and the West… for a better world @

more, less publicly discussed, ways), it is imperative to recognize that Jews and Arabs, Jews and Muslims, continue to constitute one of the main foci of new technologies of rule and governance on an ever growing global scale. To uphold the division between Jew and Arab, between Jew and Muslim is to uphold the division of sectarianism and nationalism, between religion and secularism, religion and politics – a hypocritical division that serves a Christian-dominated hegemony, a Christian view of religion. It is to maintain the division between Holocaust and colonialism, capitalism and missionary activity, and so forth. To uphold these divisions is to serve the interests of those who, like Tocqueville, showed selective concern for the enslaved and the oppressed; those who, like Tocqueville, seek to “tame” populations by making them into convenient enemies, turning them against each other, and more dangerously, against their own selves.

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