Globalization: the concept and challenges from an Islamic point of view ✍️ Mr. Al -Jali Abdul Qadir Ahmed
Globalization, as promoted in Western literature, means (the opening of the world to each other) in the fields of economy, politics, media and culture, under the aegis of a world order controlled by major economic and political powers. It is based on (disseminating a Western intellectual and behavioral model) presented as the perfect model of development and modernity.
But from a strategic and political point of view, globalization is not only an exchange of advantages, but rather (a gentle domination) used to penetrate societies (and to reshape its intellectual and cultural identity) to comply with the interests of entities controlling the global system.
The gap of globalization in relation to the teachings of Islam:
Firstly: the separation of the religion of public life: one of the most dangerous aspects of globalization is its promotion of the idea of absolute secularism, which separates religion and life, and excludes sharia of public order, which radically contradicts the Islamic vision which makes religion a reference to life.
Second: dismantle the family and change the concept of values: by globalization, concepts such as freedom of relations, the marriage of the proverb and the liberation of women in a way that rejects the structure of conservative Islamic society, and destroying its inherited standards.
Third: the capital of the capitalist market: globalization imposes an economic scheme based on wear, monopoly and economic dependence, which contradicts the essence of the Islamic economic system based on justice and solidarity.
Fourth: media and cultural dependence: thanks to global media control over public opinion, a Western cultural account is imposed, which leads to the erasure of the cultural and Islamic identity of targeted nations.
What are we doing?
Strategic awareness: The first lines of defense consists in realizing that globalization is not always “progress”, but rather a sweet intellectual invasion.
-Are to identity and values: Muslims must stick to their religion and culture, and develop it without melt in the other.
-Chating of a model of Islamic civilization: the Islamic world can interact with the world according to its conditions, and not on the conditions of others. Globalization does not mean loss of identity, but we can also issue our authentic values.
Globalization is a rhetoric in a beautiful dress which is guaranteed to demolish our tolerant customs and religious traditions, as it is in its current form, which is (the tools of the West to impose its vision on the world, in particular to erase Islamic values and customs) and the Islamic nation must face this (with a strategic conscience) which is concerned between what is culture) …
