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Many non-historians tend to extrapolate backwards when thinking about history. The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote it is dangerous to judge the past by the present. We are now living through a period in which there are some who wish to pit religion against religion and allege that co-...
The head of the Catholic Conference of Bishops in Germany, Cardinal Karl Lehmann warned against looking at Muslims in Germany with suspicion and considering them all as suspects after the frightening attacks that took place in Madrid last week. He said in an interview with the Deutsche Welle DW...
Islam in today’s world is faced with a severe campaign from the West, which boasts of democracy, honesty and openness. But this campaign [against Islam] proves that the principles of this [Western] civilization are nothing but mottoes. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the campaign against...
Bernard Lewis and Muhammad Emara are ideological adversaries; however, they both seem to agree that secularisms is alien to Islam and Muslims, and even more, it contradicts the principles of Islam.
After September 11, Bush’s administration included a number of Orientalists in top positions, one of whom is Bernard Lewis. Some Western researchers, especially Americans, have abandoned the Imperial spirit, while others have rejected assertions to America and Europe’s hegemony over the Islamic...
I feel that British intellectuals are divided. One group, which includes Bernard Lewis, takes a hostile attitude towards Islam and propagates anti-Islam thoughts in universities and research centers. The other group, which includes Alfred Holiday, understands the reality of Islam and defends it,...
The new Orientalism now uses mainly anthropological methods in interpreting classical texts, and employs sociological methods in interpreting contemporary phenomenon. We lack access to Western studies of classical topics as well as contemporary issues. However severely we criticize what others...
Dr. Emara says Maronite Christians thoroughly admire all things Western and are not able to get the Muslim Arabs around them to do the same and they are seeking to gain their independence from them. Emara claims Israel has a plan to penetrate the Arab world by fomenting civil wars through the...

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