The Influence of Cultural Domination on Religious Thought

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The Influence of Cultural Domination on Religious Thought​

By Bassam Zawadi

Back when the Muslims were in their prime, many people back then flocked to learn Arabic and study Arabic literature and even abandoned the study of the languages of their own faiths (such as Latin). This upset many of the Christian priests at the time.

However, things escalated further. Christians and Jews who lived in Islamic lands began to adopt pluralistic tendencies, shunned by mainstream Christianity and Orthodox Judaism alike. They began to say things like, “Muhammad was a true prophet of God; however, he was only sent to the Arabs.”

In order to justify why they did not adopt Islam, they used the excuse that Islam was strictly for the Arabs (an argument the likes of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibnul Qayyim focused on debunking in their rebuttals to the Christians).

Nevertheless, they still claimed, “Muhammad is a true prophet of God”! That is completely outrageous in the minds of the mainstream Christian and orthodox Jew. How could that be the case when Islam has explicitly shunned those who believe in the divinity of Christ and accused the Jews of having killed the prophets and corrupting their scriptures?!

The Muslims were dominant, and they likely sought to appease the Muslims with this idea to not be perceived as antagonistic to Islam. Another reason is that they probably became so detached from studying their own faiths properly (as priests back then upsettingly admitted), leading to their adoption of such ‘heretical’ views.

Fast forward to the 21st century today, where things have reversed. Now the tables have turned on the Muslims, and now we have Muslims with an inferiority complex so low that it prompts them to find anything in Islam they could possibly distort, just to “toe the line” and appease the dominant powers of today.

In light of this, we must ask ourselves whether we are so sure that we ourselves are not susceptible, even if in a lesser measure, to such negative influences as well?

The Influence of Cultural Domination on Religious Thought

Back when the Muslims were in their prime, many people back then flocked to learn Arabic and study Arabic literature and even abandoned the study of the languages of their own faiths (such as Latin). This upset many of the Christian priests at the time.

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The Influence of Cultural Domination on Religious Thought​

By Bassam Zawadi

Back when the Muslims were in their prime, many people back then flocked to learn Arabic and study Arabic literature and even abandoned the study of the languages of their own faiths (such as Latin). This upset many of the Christian priests at the time.

However, things escalated further. Christians and Jews who lived in Islamic lands began to adopt pluralistic tendencies, shunned by mainstream Christianity and Orthodox Judaism alike. They began to say things like, “Muhammad was a true prophet of God; however, he was only sent to the Arabs.”

In order to justify why they did not adopt Islam, they used the excuse that Islam was strictly for the Arabs (an argument the likes of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibnul Qayyim focused on debunking in their rebuttals to the Christians).

Nevertheless, they still claimed, “Muhammad is a true prophet of God”! That is completely outrageous in the minds of the mainstream Christian and orthodox Jew. How could that be the case when Islam has explicitly shunned those who believe in the divinity of Christ and accused the Jews of having killed the prophets and corrupting their scriptures?!

The Muslims were dominant, and they likely sought to appease the Muslims with this idea to not be perceived as antagonistic to Islam. Another reason is that they probably became so detached from studying their own faiths properly (as priests back then upsettingly admitted), leading to their adoption of such ‘heretical’ views.

Fast forward to the 21st century today, where things have reversed. Now the tables have turned on the Muslims, and now we have Muslims with an inferiority complex so low that it prompts them to find anything in Islam they could possibly distort, just to “toe the line” and appease the dominant powers of today.

In light of this, we must ask ourselves whether we are so sure that we ourselves are not susceptible, even if in a lesser measure, to such negative influences as well?

The Influence of Cultural Domination on Religious Thought

Back when the Muslims were in their prime, many people back then flocked to learn Arabic and study Arabic literature and even abandoned the study of the languages of their own faiths (such as Latin). This upset many of the Christian priests at the time.

islamicdiscourse.substack.com

Didn't the UAE recently standardise their week days? They claim this would attract more bright minded people. The main problem is that most people see modernisation as westernisation. And see islam as incompatible to modernisation. That's what ataturk thought. Even cultural influence isn't spoken of enough. We use the western calendar over the Islamic calendar. Some even go as saying the 21st century will be a decisive moment for islam, it either works with modernity, or most will abandon it for economic development.