Sunday, June 7, 2009

Colonialism and Islam

Concentrating on Post-Colonial Studies I meditate often on its relation to Islam. Better yet, how colonialism has effected our perception of self, which effects the individuals interpretation of Islam. I encourage listeners often to retrace their steps to the origin of their logic. The premises which it stands on. Ideally, we know Qur'an expresses, "No muslim is better than another...;" however, in the actual world, still we suffer from the disfiguring, the mis-representation, of our perception. There hasn't been enough dialogue, in my opinion, addressing this issue...