الإسلام والغرب: نحو عالم أفضل

Islam and the West… for a better world @

doubt that Muslims have also been infected by modern ideologies in the last decades. A good example of this influence is modern terrorism. Because we recognise and study Islamic law as the foundation and basis of our life “Islamic” Terrorism is of course not possible for us. Tayyib Erdogan is right when he said: “There may well be Muslim terrorists but there is certainly no Islamic terrorism”. The rejection of terrorism and of suicide attacks is a natural imperative for educated Muslims. We are talking here from experience. Islam in Bosnia for example has a special authority in these issues, since here, despite the war and its tens of thousands of victims – and despite Srebrenica – we have thankfully been spared a “European” terrorism. There is something else which is also important. From our point of view terrorism has not prevented globalisation but rather has accelerated it. In the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Italian philospher Giorgio Agamben defined the terrorists as the decisive supporting force for the coming world state. Why? In his view they ensure the ‘permanent state of emergency’ and thus the israelisation of world politics. The revolt of nihilistic terrorism is leading to the final technical perfection of the world state. Of course, terrorism also legitimises the necessity of the concentration camp and the state of emergency. The terrorist and the world state necessarily appear together on the world stage. 7. Global democracies in the long run are not threated by Islamism but rather by capitalism Of course there are groups of a hundred or so radical Muslims – but are they really the historical challenge to democracy? This question– without intending to play down the nihilism of terrorism – is today posed by many intellectuals in Europe. Since Plato we know that political systems by nature change. Michael Stürmer wrote in the German conservative newspaper Die Welt:

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