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urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:26pm
SEPT 11 When the World Trade Centre twin towers came crashing down 12 years ago, it was not just non-Muslims who were shocked many Muslims were equally horrified. Consequently, it led to deeper introspection. For many Muslims, it was a turning point. * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:26pm
Just over three decades ago, prominent Arab intellectual Sadik Al Azm wrote a devastating critique of the Arab worlds political stagnation after the Arab defeat at the hands of Israel in the 1967 war. The loss gave impetus to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism worldwide. The solution to Muslims social, economic and political humiliation, it was believed, lay in returning to Islam as a complete ideology. Islam-ism would rival all other isms, from secularism to capitalism to communism. * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:26pm
At the heart of Islamism is an orientation that upholds the supremacy of Islam versus everything else deemed unIslamic. Syed Qutb, in his famous treatise Malim fi al-tariq (Milestones), pretty much sums up the tension between what he deemed an Islamic society versus the jahili (paganistic) society. * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:27pm
Over nearly three decades, certain frustrated Muslim youths became attracted to this orientation known as Islamic fundamentalism. It was also a period of struggle for many Islamic movements to establish daulah islamiyah or the notion of an Islamic state. * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:28pm
This project failed, and its proponents continue to be frustrated by authoritarian secular regimes and their own intellectual deficiency in defining and operationalising the notion of an Islamic state. French sociologist Olivier Roy, in his insightful 1996 book, termed it the failure of political Islam * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:28pm
Since the 1990s, the world has seen an increase in violent acts committed by Islamist movements which draw upon such frustrations. This culminated in the attach on New Yorks twin towers * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:29pm
If the 1967 defeat of the Arabs had propelled the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, 9/11 has paved the way for rethinking and critical reflection Could Islam accommodate the separation of religion and state, thus admitting that secularism is not anathema to Muslim political thought? Could Muslims be at home with modern values without positing these as an antithetical to the Islamic notion of what is traditional and authentic? * +

urvoice1 11.09.13 - 11:32pm
Today, much resources have been poured into addressing physical violence perpetrated by a small group of Muslim extremists driven by a warped agenda of planting the supremacist flag of Islam worldwide. In fact, physical violence is a manifestation of violence in thought. The former cannot exist without the latter. The project of addressing extremism in Muslim societies, thus, must also start with addressing all forms of intellectual violence. * +

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