What is the issue?
Retrospective views among few Muslims make them into images of violence and gender oppression, such views need to be modernised.
What Islam actually preach?
- From its earliest days Islam is a vigorous part of the universal civilisation of many books.
- Its actual essence is a brotherhood, not a nationhood.
- Islam spread through regional battlefields, but its true consolidation came only when Muslim communities sought and reached the forefront of knowledge.
- Islam never promotes war for the sake of war, it only validates war as self-defence.
- It is a humanitarian philosophy, not a tool of self-destructive fantasists.
What are the regressive thinking among few Muslims?
- Many Muslim communities are still following various internal doctrinaires which has laced regressive thinking.
- The doctrine of faith supremacy leads to pseudo-intellectual assault that stereotypes all.
- It spreads havoc to security and promotes gender oppression with barbaric overtones of violence.
- Such regressive thinking grievously wounds the very essence of Islam, which is as its name itself, a mission of peace.
On what basis this retrospective views can be modernised?
- The principle of modernity is the acquisition of knowledge, most urgently democratisation of secular knowledge.
- Freedom, knowledge and gender equality need to be the pillars modernity.
- Freedom is top priority of modernity, which must be political, individual and cultural right.
- Modernity must be a right to live without fear of suppression by the state or oppression by vested interests.
- It should also be the right to wear whatever one want and not what some regressive person wants.
Way forward
- The world is in the midst of a revolution of ideas that will make the 21st century into the golden age of individual freedom and collective achievement.
- It is the moment to address a malevolent and dangerous phenomenon that has arisen among some Muslim communities.
- Some regressive schools manipulate the law to suppress women, it’s time to fight against such retrospective laws.
- Gender equality is non-negotiable, women must be in the frontline of cultural advance and economic growth.
Source: Indian Express
