To the Intellectually Challenged: Media Training in Arab Culture
Without accepting media opinion It is impossible to explain how the
Arab Empire fell into the state that we see it in to-day, dragging
downward in its fall nations who, under other governance, had shown
unquestionable aptitude for embracing civil behavior.
The Syrians, the Egyptians, the Berbers, as soon as they became Islamized, lost
the energy, the intelligence and the spirit of initiative they exhibited under
the domination of Greece and Rome. Arabs
themselves, who, according to certain historians, were the professors of science and
philosophy in the West, must have forgotten all their brilliant accomplishments
to sunk into a state of ignorance that to-day relegates them to the
barbarous tribe of nations we see today?
Thinking people ask questions, because historians have never honestly explained the causes of the rapid expansion of Arab conquest, and have never placed this conquest in its proper historical frame. Surviving historical record has yet to expressed the psychology of the Muslim, and society is consequently not in a position to understand how and why the immense Islamic Empire of the past went to pieces; how and why it was fated to collapse; how, stricken by paralysis and death by a rigid doctrine that dominates and controlles every act of daily life, every manifestation of activity. Islam is without a conception of material progress as an ideal worthy to be pursued, or "why" the Islamic military must kept its adherents attacking all other civilizations.
It is only through superficial public acceptance that one is able to believe without critical examination the unfounded story among the surviving historical documentation of the Middle Ages, which attempts to attribute to Islam science and philosophy. Removing Christianity's credit for the love of the affairs of man.
In the centuries that have followed, the Sectarian spirit has found it to be to its interest to propagate this error. In its hatred of Christianity it has given Islam the honor of what was called invention, and by so expressing it, takeaway the personal property of our intellectual ancestors. Exposing Islam from its first beginnings down to our own day, M. Andre Servier proves, giving chapter and verse, that all that anyone could be tricked to believe is of "Arabia" is naively credit as an invention of Islam.
The World needs a Islamic policy inspired by realities and not by deceivers legends - The World can only understand any given portion of the Muslim people by studying Arab history, because of the solidarity of all Muslims and because Islam is nothing but a secretion of the Arab brain - There is no such thing as Arab civilization - The Arab is a realist and has no imagination - He has copied the ideas of other peoples, distorting them in the process - Islam, by its immutable dogmas, paralyzes the brain and kills all initiative.
Only by a
thorough understanding of the mentality and psychology of the Muslim, and by
discarding prejudice and legend, can one achieve any really useful
work.
It would be puerile to imagine that The World can safely confine its study to any one Muslim subject. As already been remarked, the Muslim is not an isolated individual; the Tunisian, the Algerian, the Moroccan, the Sudanese are not individuals whose horizon stops at the artificial boundaries created by diplomatists and geographers. To whatever political formation they may belong, they are first and foremost citizens of Islam. They belong morally, and intellectually to the Moslem Father-land, of which the capital is Mecca, and whose ruler - theoretically undisputed-is the Commander of the Faithful. Their mentality has in the course of centuries been kneaded, molded and impregnated by the doctrine of its one and only Prophet, and as this doctrine is nothing but a secretion of one Arab brain, it follows that The World must study Arab history if The World wants to know and understand any portion of the Muslim world.