For how long intellectual autarchy?!!

sabri magdaci
2014 / 2 / 5

For how long intellectual autarchy?!!

Europeans had suffered from intellectual autarchy in the middle Ages, for reasons known to all. Enlightenment movement played an important role in saving the west from this terrible scourge, which still dominates the intellectual and cultural issues in the Arab and Islamic world. It seems that the East is not like the West, because democracy was born in the West, in a normal delivery. As well as the transition in Eastern Europe, after the collapse of the Soviet -union-, came pretty much naturally, except in some areas, such as Yugoslavia and Romania. But this kind of birth to modernity and the establishment of real democracies in our region seems to be worse than cesarean deliveries, because whenever Arabs and Muslims intellectuals tried to open a window for change, some currents oppressive ideology and cultural practices, blocked the roads and ports to stay away from the light of modernity and civilized way of living, under the pretext of maintaining religion and heritage.
We consider the state of China as the best model in the east to be able to overcome the stiffness of reason and intellectual autarchy. Because since China opened its doors to the ideas of new cultural, scientific and new economic challenges, despite the ideology of communism known to be closed to outside world for decades. If we compare china to the state of North Korea, and the Islamic world, we certainly understand what we are trying to say in this regard, despite the fact that North Korea has tremendous energies to rebuild and quickly unmatched, if the people given the opportunity to be open towards the outside world .
Not to be pessimist, our situation in reality, does not resemble any geographical area in the world, because it seems that, we still live in the past, especially after it became very clear, that the flaws in the overall performance of the mind of Arabs and Muslims, in terms of activities, effectiveness, and there role in formation, and formulation of the current global civilization is very fragile comparing to the rest of the world.
We are familiar with the crises in the Islamic world and the suffering of the people-;- to maintain the cultural values from one side, and inability to integrate into the modern democratic systems in the other side. Therefore it is very important to acknowledge our failure in giving adequate for Freedom of thought and Culture, which it was the main reason for establishing great civilizations in the modern era.
Among other reasons, that led our societies to arrive to this -dir-e situation is bullying and oppressing men in the name of religion, and not to deal with religion and heritage objectively. In addition to that, losing focus in the future of our generations and considering the ancient culture, as heavenly scared, can’t be touched´-or-renewed-;- as well as, the rejection of freedom and pluralism, with a lot of restrictions of thought and mind.
It should be noted that we need to focus on the future of our generations and to take the right step in the right -dir-ection, and that is separating religion from state. I am certain, that the best way to fulfill this kind of system is to have strong elected authority, can be able to avoid governmental and religious mind control, which always been the case in our region, because by controlling the mind of the individuals, they guarantee their loyalty to the authoritarian regimes.
However, with the pessimist outlook in the reality of our situation, there are still some optimist plans and practices in some geographical areas, such us Egypt, Tunisia, Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, which are very clear indication and definite desire for the will of Islamic peoples to change.
I witness, very proudly as citizen of “ the Kurdistan region of Iraq”, the achievement of the great economic challenges, with a lot of effort, been made toward co-existence between different ethnic and religious factions, not to mention the freedom of opinion, and relation to the provision of employment opportunities for most of the inhabitant of the region has been fulfilled, as well as the reconstruction of the most vital facilities, has been established since the fall of saddams regime in 2003.
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