Saturday, March 12, 2011

Globalization and the Clash of Civilizations


] Driven from their homes unjustly only because they believe in God and the people who do not pay each other for the silos were demolished and the sale and prayers and mosques, stating the name of God a lot and Inasrn God of victory for Allah is Strong, Almighty [(Hajj: 40)
The struggle years ago, the conflict between civilizations, but is essentially a conflict between the beliefs not only between the layers and ethnicities. The adherents of the same class, belonging to the national one, but one tribe that could kill each other if their beliefs differed. This verse indicates that point to attack people of the tribe are overseen the Arab tribes to other people from the tribe itself; because they Khalvohm in their faith. This is reached by the Students of Western civilizations; they are hardly to be unanimous in that civilization and that consisted of many elements but the most important component of which is the cultural element, and the most important element of the culture is religion. They note that major civilizations
Was largely based on religion. What is civilization? And culture? And globalization? Relationship and conflict between civilizations out?
Civilization, culture and globalization:
Words civilization and culture, culture and globalization, although they are Arab, but they have made in our use of modern symbols indicate Almaaniwamufhomat the same words that indicate that Bank made it a translation. Let's look at those meanings and Mufhomat as they are with her family. And the most appropriate, we start with is the U.S. Huntington first popularized the term "clash of civilizations in a famous article published in the summer of 1993 in the journal Foreign Affairs in this title, and then expanded in a book published the same title. Huntington transferred a large number of Western scientists launched to familiarize them with the word civilization, civil or civilization, and the difference between what we call culture culture; what civilization or civil, and culture? We can sum up the overall statements from Huntington transfer them in the concept of civilization and culture are as follows: German intellectuals put the dividing line between civilization and culture, their civilization, including technical and other physical factors, and culture include the society's values ​​and ideals
And functionalities, intellectual, artistic and moral Great. But other Western thinkers have violated the Germans in this; They see that civilization and culture both refer to the Platform for the life of a nation of people, and civilization, but is the culture of glass, and both include the values ​​and norms, institutions and ways of thinking prevailing in a nation of people, and that religion is the most important components of civilization, and civilization are not identical with race; the holders of one race may belong to different civilizations, and the same civilization Kelhoudarp Islamic communities may include different races, colors and shapes. And civilization is the broadest and cultural unity; Italian people of the village for example, has characterized culturally from other Italian village, but they share in the culture of Italian people to distinguish them from German villages. The Germans and Italians belong to the European culture differentiate them from the Chinese and Indian groups. This, which brings together European civilization is that differentiate them from the Chinese and Indian civilizations. Civilization is the highest cultural gathering of the people, and the broadest level of cultural identity to them. And not in the cultural affiliation of the people only belong to the human race [1]. Globalization can say: It is in essence rendering the local globally; is a description of a work in progress indicated by the word Globalization, but at the same time a description of some of the results of this globalization. The final result of the globalization of the ideal that the whole world language or
Common languages, and that trade in an open and accessible among all the countries of the world, and where there is one economic system, political system, one that prevails when a single faith, and to be where people of shared values ​​on issues such as human rights and the relationship between the sexes, and there is a world literature tastes of all people, and where there is accordingly a single education system, and so on. And that all of these things been globalized suitable for people of where they are human beings, and help them to achieve their ambitions of physical and spiritual, ie, the world has a single global civilization. This is the ultimate ideal, but globalization may be incomplete, may be complete, however, be suitable for humans, but imposed on them
To unforeseen circumstances. Interested in the issue of globalization are in agreement about that, though the word is new but what it describes is not new, but finds that some of them walk around the world began hundreds of years ago. If this is what globalization means and that makes it possible for movement? The
Some historians that globalization has had in the past two major reasons are the migration and invasion. But we have to ask: Why do people migrate, and why invading some other country? They do so; because they see their values ​​according to their interest in physical or spiritual. This then is the primary motivation for migration engine or invasion or any other type of communication between nation and nation. But the people but they decide to migrate to a particular place or invasion of a nation by what they learn from the information about it, according to accessibility. These then are the two factors of information and transportation facilities; These depend very much on the technical level of the reach of the nation's migratory or invasive or seeking any other type of
Relationships or influence. Motivated a nation to invade another nation or the migration of some of them are mostly economic reasons, but some may be cultural. And the two are intertwined; even gas for economic reasons transmits its culture has imposed on the losers if the invader a great potential, may be affected by a culture of Gzahm, but has been adopted and leave the culture, and may be vulnerable and mutual influence. The immigrant or gaseous, for cultural reasons may benefit economic benefits, has been happening to the culture for which that emigrated from what is happening to immigrants. The invasion of the Muslim world an example of the invasion out of civilization; they were preparing themselves owners of a letter addressed to the whole world are bidding assigned to it by peaceful means if possible, and only by resorting to war. But even the Muslims who were migrating in search of livelihood was their job to religious scholars lie in front of them, opted in the country Althagroa to a significant impact, Vengulwa to as the transfer of the invaders before them, their religion, their language was influenced by them only in matters that do not conflict with their religion, but some may be from the requirements of advocacy, as learning their language.
The Muslims who migrated to Western countries nowadays, they do so for reasons in the great majority of economic, Tjrepetthmtdl that the vast majority of them lose their cultural identity, language and appearance, and our melt in Western societies. But even more than hold on and influence in these communities is their food. However, few of those who have emigrated for economic reasons was with the few who travel for reasons of advocacy or school grounds to accept some Westerners to Islam, and the prevalence of certain manifestations of Islamic mosques, schools, libraries, and the veil. The Westerners who went to the Islamic world invaders, or for economic reasons, few of them are affected by the Islamic culture or converted to Islam. Therefore, it was entering a couple of thousands of American soldiers in Islam in the short time they spent in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War is considered remarkable for an abnormal rule. But the entry of non-Western immigrants to the Muslim world has been and continues to be familiar with. The invasion of the West to the world was essentially for economic reasons, but the motive for missionary task was also present when the presence Pena. Westerners who believe that their message is to bring the world and make him a Christian. They believe that their culture than other civilizations as it is the rationality of not found in other, and that this feature is what it takes to be a global civilization. One sees that the best teachers Argentines who express this belief is Hegel and convey him as saying: «The German spirit is the spirit of the new world». And says: "Hegel believed that the European spirit that is the spirit of Germany is the absolute truth that self-fulfilling it is to be a city of one other. I mean the writer says: "This case means that the issue of Hegel had not imposed itself on Europe and the United States only; but all the intellectual area of ​​the Parties to the world [2]. And professor at Duke University of America: «It is amazing It is a movement in the very racial intolerance to think of Europe that it has since 1500 to attend the world has been a centuries-old civilizations (such as the Chinese civilization and Indian and Islamic ...) before it makes itself a new center for the world on behalf of Christianity and Europe a bunch of groups barbarism rising »[3], and the best from across the combination of paying the economic and cultural heritage is of Spanish, which WYSIWYG is gone and his colleagues for the invasion of the islands of India, saying:« service to God and to His Majesty, and the transfer of light to those sitting in the dark, and champion the rich Also, every person who wants to become a »[4]. Europe has been able to impose itself and many aspects of civilization to those civilizations with the invasion and occupation and colonialism, and then the media and economic pressures and military threats. Says something of contemporary Mwrkhm pride: «The change that took place in the history of the world after 1500 was not without precedent. Never before and never had it one civilization throughout the whole earth; Since the oldest theaters prior to the date seen what was always a tendency towards diversity. Now the cultural mainstream has started to turn. The essence of what was happening was apparent even from the late eighteenth century. The United European, including Russia, was at that time had arrogated to itself more than half of the Earth's surface, in varying degrees, has already seized control of nearly one third. In the western hemisphere had Ozdrawa groups, their numbers large enough settlement for the establishment of new centers of civilization; a new nation has emerged from
The former British provinces in North America, and in the south the Spaniards were able to destroy the civilizations of the mature civilization Egrsoa »[5]. Then mentions that he was there on that date, nearly twenty thousand Dutch in South Africa, and Australia had begun receiving the new settlers. A visitor to the European East Africa, Iran, India and Indonesia where he will find Europeans came to Itagroa then return to their country in the near term or long term to enjoy the profits that they have made. In the second half of the nineteenth century was Western colonialism has covered the whole of Africa, and caused the control of the Indian sub-continent and the rest of Asia. In the early twentieth century subjected the entire Middle East except Turkey for his direct control, the end of 1920 the Ottoman Empire was divided between Britain, France and Italy. In the course of this expansion of the West spent entirely on the Elimination of civilizations (Meso american) and (Andean), and subjected the Indian and Islamic civilizations and subjected Africa. The incursion into China and made a Western influence for a period of four hundred year
Was the relationship between civilizations in the subordination of non-Western societies of Western civilization [6].
So what was, until 1920; what happened after? West continues its technical superiority and continued to greatly affect all societies of the world, especially after the boom that occurred in communications technology and the transition, which increased the possibility of globalization. This dominance is now summed up as an American writer in the United Bank:
- Owns and manages the global banking system.
- And control all types of hard currency.
- And it is the first global customer.
- And it is they who provide the world with most of his merchandise ready.
- And they dominate the global capital markets.
- And they wield considerable moral leadership in many communities.
- And have the ability to great military intervention.
- And they control the sea straits.
- And they do most of the research and development of advanced technology.
- And they control over the ultra-technical education.
- And dominating the entrance to the space.
- And the aviation industry.
- And the means of global communication.
- The high-tech weapons industry [7].
Globalization were not as it was to please her, then, that prevail in the world to suit every human culture and help people for their cooperation and development and take advantage of the date each other. But almost of globalization and modernization to be almost Tgrayba because of the superiority of Western civilization and the lack of tolerance with other civilizations. How long this will continue to excel and this dominance?
The view of many Western intellectuals that they will not last long at least so much. Why? This is a big subject here, we can not but refer to it merely signals, we say:
1 - because the reason that force was not just for domestic reasons in Western civilization, but he was also a favorable external conditions. Now, other external circumstances do not change it before the West made it relatively vulnerable to weaken the relative increase in economic power and technical assistance to non-Western country.
2 - increase our appreciation of the importance of this relative weakness of the material power of Western nations if we remember what he says many of the thinkers that the reason the foundation for its control is not valuable or not we have thought, but was such a force. Huntington decide this fact explicitly strange as to say: the West-dominated world in the superiority of its ideas or values ​​or religion (which was embraced by only a handful of members of other civilizations), but defeated in the superiority of organized violence. The Westerners often forget this fact, but not non-Westerners never forget them [8]. However, we can pick up the pieces and see the Huntington's view that the West but not in the same order ahead in those areas but the people who used to think where this superiority, and that this belief was wrong motive, with economic motives to go out to conquer the world as we mentioned earlier.
3 - Now, this relative weakness in the physical force of the West accompanied and perhaps preceded by cooling in the drive messianic; Hamas's Western religion Christian at the beginning of Qrnhm st century is no longer as it was in the eighteenth century, there has been no such apathy in religious fervor because of vulnerability to other civilizations in first place, but was essentially:
- Because of their studies the scientific origins of their religion Historically, those studies that cast doubt on the constancy historic for many of its provisions, which demonstrated that in these texts a contradiction and a violation of some scientific facts resulting division into fundamentalists, most of the common folk who believe literally what is in their holy book, liberals believe that not all of which is from God, and that affected the cultural conditions of the time who wrote it.
- Then there was the development in the field of natural sciences is another reason; because this approach is based on the rationality of science does not exist in their religion.
- Then more than double the demand for debt or interest in the political system that separates him from the secular state, but about public life as a whole.
4 - Many Western thinkers have hoped to solve the natural science replacing religion, and succeed in solving the problems of the human inability to resolve on its debt. But the experience of two world wars super, and adoption of the technology of war provided by the natural science undermined this hope. Then came the catastrophe of Hiroshima COM many Western intellectuals and common folk that natural science is a good weapon to use or support
Shame on the values ​​it is not taken, it must have another source.

6 - left for the West is now the principle of respect to him and defend him and cherished by the only liberal democracy and its attendant capitalist system. But even these are finding a lot of cash and non-audit that it meets some human values, particularly justice for the poor, and what resulted in the deepening of the spirit of the individual and the accompanying social problems.
7 - spirit prevailing in the West, now is not the spirit of optimistic, but pessimism may reach their limit, which was expressed by a French writer gig that people and raised his pessimism when he wrote, as quoted by the author of English: «The Europe started to enter a new dark age is characterized by epidemics and beggars and the collapse of the cities, and sent a myth, and the return of the threat from the East Asia and Islam »[9].
Perhaps we can say: that even if there has been no slackening in the Western Hamas to their religion and their message, it was their civilization to become a global civilization, if you have lost physical force; they do not have the same ingredients in the world. But this is another topic we can not enter into details now, but many of these deficiencies will become clear if we showed some elements of the universality of Islam; characterized as Ddha things. Now we go to this and has this article finishes.
What qualifies the Islamic civilization to be a global civilization?
I think we should distinguish first between Islam and Islamic civilization; because if civilization is, in essence, beliefs and Agaymwaltsourat of actually or less to a large extent the reality of a nation, what everything the debt the house of God represented in the nation declare their faith in him . Religion religions: the religion of a house of God is not changed nor altered] I mentioned we went to him and I will guard [(stone: 9) yen represented in the reality of people closer to religion, home or away from him, not matched by only the messenger who brought him, and ratified by the words of Mother of the Faithful Wife: «His character was the Quran» [10], and the other about some of them closer to him severely, and some of them away from him, although a significant dimension
Associate to it. Islamic civilization of the reality of Muslims qualify for the world as far as proximity to the house of religion, which is affiliated with it. What elements of the world in this religion? It has many ingredients, and great, but we limit ourselves in this article refer to some of them:
1 - that while the apostles such as Moses and Jesus were God and prayers are sent to their people especially, Muhammad peace be upon him was sent to all people, sent a mercy to the worlds, and God made him a ring of prophets. Even if the Jews and the Christians belonging to these two Apostles Mstmiskin right to their religion, what is permissible for them to make them Dineen global ring after going down the debt; but because God sent two apostles to their people and especially to a limited period. Almstmsk Arif Muslim religion feel happy about this fact that has occurred in the evolution of means of communication and make the transition from the world one village, as they say. Feel happy about it; because he sees the ratifications of the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him; no one but God Almighty could have been aware that the world Sitgarb this convergence need not only to the Prophet and one.
2 - that the possibility of approximation spaces is present in the sense of the believer who reads the verse:] Aqsaa night from the Sacred Mosque to the Aqsa Mosque, which endorsed him to show him of Our Signs, He is the Hearer, the Seer [(Isra: 1), and when mentioned how the rejecters tags peace be upon him narrowed Oattanhm see that this is possible, and probably think that could be limited in the familiar. And reads the believer in the Book of the Lord to a man who had knowledge of the book was able to convey the throne as a whole in less than a blink of an eye from Yemen to Syria, then reads in the Book of Lord what is impressed that the Prophet peace be upon him ascended to heaven seventh and returned in the night one; a distance if
Creature made of the speed of light it took billions of light years. True Muslim because his messenger peace be upon him: «God Zoe saw me land Mchargaha and the West, but my will is Zoe Lee king of them» [11].
3 - that this religion is the discernment of God created mankind; he addressed them as human beings God put in their hearts basis; it is not strange to them. How many people have felt this when they become Muslim and overflowed their eyes as they realize the truth.
4 - Adding a Muslim convinced of the universality of the religion he has proven in the fact that it is not religion which is bounded by geographical conditions or climate, or temporal or cultural; has embraced this religion people, including all kinds of those differences, they found nothing of them that prevents them from believing in him or consciousness and something strange to them. Muslims in all parts of the world is now closer to their religion than Christians or Jews to their religion.

 
 

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