States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic CrisisTerrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems—authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration—that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, the author recommends that culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. |
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... means the advanced societies of both western Europe and certain of its former colonies , the United States most promi- nent among them . As with the term Islamic , we speak of the Western world and of Western society as being equal to ...
... means and whether an intervening military force can bestow the rights of citizens where no real concept of free citizenry exists ? Such questioning was unlikely ; American educational processes , whether formal or informal , tend to ...
... means , and such public- ity serves to equate the namesake with active resistance . ' Abd al - Qadir al - Husayni is quite famous as a native hero , and his name is inevitably mentioned in discussions of the 1948 war . A street in Gaza ...
Contents
Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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