Archive for 'Modernity'
Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?
Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this […]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Modernity.
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Should the West dialogue with Islamists?
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Abdullah Faliq, The Cordoba Foundation, October-December, 2006
“…what Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such as justice, freedom, good governance, which all Muslims share. Muslims don’t believe simply that the West is the only model of the implementation of these values, and the only way you […]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islam and globalization, Modernity, Political Islam.
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Should we talk to political Islam?
By Alastair Crooke and Beverley Milton-Edwards, British Council, July 5, 2004
‘Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.’ Hamilton Wright Mabie
First and foremost, political Islam is regarded as a critique of modernity, both by those inside and outside the faith system. This is a critique fuelled by the realm […]
Posted: July 5th, 2004 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Modernity, Political Islam, Secularism.
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