Secular Liberalism hacking into Islam?
by
Abdul Rahman Abdul Talib
These days, we have seen the emergence of neo-muslims trying to shape Islam to fit the secular-liberalism mould. We see people like Chandra Muzaffar and Zainah Anwar spearheading such effort. We also see the rise of the likes of Anti Hadeeth trying to reinterpret the Quran so as to fit the secular-liberal ideology.
Before I begin, allow me to give the background where Islam was introduced in. in “Jahiliya” Arab period, the Arabs were steeped into idol worshipping, gambling, intoxication, disrespect of parents and elders, nakedness, illiteracy, fornication and adultery, prostitution, practice of usury, infanticide, slavery and tribal nationalism.
When Islam came to the Arabian peninsula, Islam eradicated all of that and changed all that, thus, converting a bunch of nomads and backwards people into a world superpower.
Fast forward to today and one will see that the traits of “Jahilliya” are the same as those of the secular liberal reality. One can easily see that corruption of values and morality is the defining trait of the secular liberalism. In other words, what is present before the coming of Islam, is the current reality of the secular liberal west.
If during those days, the resistance to Islam was done in the name of preserving the ways of the elders, now such resistance is done in the name of promoting human rights and liberalism.
So, naturally, Islam has become the anti-thesis of the secular-liberal West. To compound the issue even more, everything that is immoral and corrupted is jusfitied of it’s existence in the name of human rights.
In other words, secular liberalists justify, for instance, adultery as a form of human rights. While in Islam, adultery is not just seen as a sin but also a felony subject to punishment. The masquerade that secular humanist put on to justify felonies like adultery is nothing more than an attempt to confuse Muslims into rejecting Islam.
One acid test that secular liberalist fail to pass is in the matter of usury. While the UN Human Rights Charter speaks of many issues, it had failed to address the issue of usury with complete conviction.
Usury will result in human being to be economically shackled. An individual shackled is and individual without any rights, no matter how much rights one assigns to him. Shackled individuals are by nature right-less. They are at the mercy at their debtors and will submit to their debt master’s wishes.
Failure to condemn practice of usury is a clear indication of secular liberalism paradox. In actual fact, rights are actually determined by those who have money.
That explains why in Western democracy, political agendas are determined by major Corporations. Since the media are also in the hands of the major corporation, agendas fitting their economic agenda are the ones allowed to be dissaminated to the public.
That explains why the entire US media, despite the notion that they are free, were in unison in their support for the war in Iraq. In fact, the war in Iraq is economically benefiting each and every one of the media conglomerates owning all the medias in the USA.
“Jahilliya” practices is also benefiting the Major Corporation agenda of making money. We all are very well aware of the amount of profits made from the gambling and liquor industry. They make billions of dollars in profits regardless if the economic situation is good or bad.
“Free sex” and nakedness, which is one of the trait of the “Jahiliiya” culture, helps corporations to sell their products. Their ads are filled with scantily clad models selling items from canned soup to insurance to just about anything that has nothing to do with sex. Sex sells so if you use sex you will sell your merchandise.
Also, the cosmetics and fashion industries thrive on nakedness. They seem to be able to push their products by exposing men and women’s body parts to the public. The more nakedness is present, the more merchandise they sell.
Islam seems to be a thorn in their side. In order to wipe Islam from being a comprehensive way of life, they advance the agenda of “freedom of religion”. Such freedom is meant to recognised the right to apostasy. What it will do is reduce Islam to a mere set of beliefs and thus destroying the role of Islam as a comprehensive way of life.
In short, the bad rap that Islam is getting right now is nothing more than attacks made by agents of immorality and decadent that is bent to destroy humanity.
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