So much for the West's progress that devours the planet.
The whole world from US to Russia to China to Japan embrace Western concept of technology and progress. It is based on gluttonous materialistic life style.
Now read this extract from Murad Hoffman, Former German Ambassador to Morocco who is now a devout Muslim.
esults, the techno-cultural globalization we are all witnessing works like a non-religious, ideological continuation of colonialism. It is at work in the Arabian Gulf just like everywhere else.
Let us now take a good look at the record of that marvelous, self-appointed center of rationality, the enlightened Western world. Since the 18th century, in contrast to the high ideals pronounced and exported, what one discovers in terms of actual behavior is highly disturbing: Slave-trading and apartheid; two savage world wars; Stalinist massacres and the Nazi holocaust; ethnic (in reality, religious) cleansing in Bosnia, and atomic warfare against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These disasters were the bloodiest the world has ever seen.
But even if Western people were not at war with each other, they have behaved violently against nature: against animals, plants and even minerals-to the point that the destruction of resources and environmental disasters like air pollution, ozone layer threaten the survival of mankind.
None of the bloody excesses I mentioned took place in the Muslim world; and yet the West, in spite of such a record, has the nerve to ask the rest of the world to follow its example and to deny not only the existence, but also the possibility, of an alternative.
Posted 1 year ago on 14 May 2011 3:59
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