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Islam And Democracy: Sociological Analysis
December 18, 2010 | 
Author Islam and Democracy: Sociological analysis
By H. A. Yahya, Professor of Sociology
Opinions about Islam and democracy vary among Muslim thinkers and theologians. Those who are proponent of Islamic State or Islamic System tend to argue that Democracy is a concept imposed by the West. And that democracy in this respect should not be applied particularly for Muslim community. Justifying their opinion, because they claim that democracy negates Islamic value, where Islam considers all people are equal regardless of color, or nationality, [but not of sex or gender, because man and woman are not equal in Islam for certain reasons debated widely between believers in Islam- intellectuals and theocratic personnel].
Other groups, however, reject Democracy as exemplified, and should be resisted by Muslim communities, particularly represented by fundamentalist, such view is obviously considered as a result of Western colonization. For them, Democracy for both groups is the means to split Islamic community (the Ummah) rather than unite Islamic community in two ways by which the western colonialism intend to hamper Muslim community from unifying. 1) Muslim community is coerced to accept an understanding, belief, and parameter (Democracy) that is bequeathed by colonizers to be put into practice in Muslim countries even if it is clear not corresponding to Islamic belief. 2) The West synchronizes democracy with Islam so as to produce Muslim’s view that there is no such distinction between Islam and democracy. One of their strategies is to reject Democracy as exposed by the West .
Posted in Sociology | 
Tags: Ala, Analysis, Ayah, Chicago, Democracy, Fukuyama, God, H. A. Yahya, Hasan Yahya, Islam, Islamic, islamic belief, Malaysia, Martin Kramer, Muslim, muslim thinkers, Samuel Huntington, Shari, Sociological, USA, western colonization | 
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Bacon’s Relation With His Philosophy
BACON’S RELATIONS WITH HIS PHILOSOPHY
By Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
The philosophies in the pre-modern ages taught poverty, patience, perseverance, and sacrifice of this transient world for the sake of the next eternal world. This world was to be shunned as an issue of deceit. Love of God was preferred to the love of wealth and this world. The torture of worldly misery was thus mitigated, and also the calamity was attributed to the will of God and was thus taken with patience. All the givers of revealed religion, excepting perhaps Solomon, lived in poverty and preferred poverty to wealth. The lives of all the great teachers of mankind, e.g Socrates, Budha, Christ and the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, serve as the precedent. Bacon’s life on the other had is an example of the worldly pleasure and luxury and engenders hatred for poverty, morality and humility. Epicurus may only be seen to side with Bacon in this.
Bacon’s relation to his own philosophy may be surmised as follows:-
“Love of wealth, power and ostentation was inherent in the nature of Bacon, that he might give the philosophy of fruit and man’s right of dominion over nature. And his mind was so set on these things that he went as far as condemning the moral philosophy and misinterpreting the word of Bible”.
Posted in Philosophy | Tags: Bacon, Bacon's, God, Homer, John Milton, man, Milton, muhammad yousuf, Philosophy, Relation, transient world, Virgil, W.H.D.Rouse, worldly pleasure | No Comments »
Home-Schooling Researched
Educators, Parents, Students lend me your ears, my name is Katie Criss and I am going to discuss home schooling with you. Currently there is a very heated debate over the issue of Home schooling in America. Today I am going to present you with my views on this critical subject. When I say “my views” I’m not going to stick my finger in the air to see what way the wind is blowing with this issue of home schooling. I know there are two sides, and supporters of both.. Rather I am going to present to you my viewpoints with opinion and research on why I am a critic of home schooling.
When I asked myself the question, How do you feel about home schooling? I first thought “Why would anyone do that” So I researched exactly that, What are the reasons that people give of why they choose to homeschool and how valid are they.
One reason that I frequently found through research was that parents home schooled their children because of the violence found in public schools. My response to this is Yes, there is violence in public schools, However, there are many preventive measures that are taken to avert this violence and most schools have incorporated a Zero-tolerance policy. Parents justify themselves by reciting isolated incidents to help build their case for home schooling. My message to parents who use this excuse to validate themselves is, first ask yourself the question, Is their violence in my neighborhood. I am sure if you are living in Harlem, New York compared to South Park, Pennsylvania there is going to be an immense difference in the crime of the area. My next question is, how do you expect to protect your child from all the dangers of society? Home schooling your child is a parents attempt to isolate their child from the real world scary stories. If you are afraid of your child being bullied, what will happen when your child becomes an adult and meets a bullying boss? This is a real-world story; children need the exposure to different people. Why? Simple, because nobody in this world is the same.
Posted in Homeschooling | Tags: America, Andrea Yates, Arizona, Brandon, child, Christian, Deanna Laney, God, home, Homeschooling, Iowa, Katie Criss, Mrs. Laney, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Researched, Schooling, South Park, south park pennsylvania, Texas, violence in public schools, zero tolerance policy | No Comments »
The Idea of God is not Henceforth Relevant
Well educated, intellectual people, especially scientists at all times demonstrate considerably smaller adherence to religiosity than others. However, there are still believers of the idea of the God in science. If we exclude from their number those who feel a painful requirement for external protection and support by virtue of their poor living circumstances, there are those who come to idea of the God as a result of amazement at a world that has many unsolved problems. The surprising diversification of subjects and entities can be scientifically formulated in principle as it can sustain the quasi-stable condition and demonstrates development.
Common sense suggests, that for an explanation of the observable diversification in life, it is necessary to admit that each separate subject, each organism, each social unit, and even each computer program should contain a special internal causative engine, a local determinism, which maintains an autonomous internal life in it.
The conventional concept of determinism does not suppose the existence of such sources. This represents a scandalous weakness in the concept. Not finding the required causative source within the framework of philosophy, people are compelled to address the always-available, exotic, exciting fantasies of the irrational sources that are available in religion and mysticism.
Today the situation can be considerably rectified. The recently published concept of Ring Determinism identifies the required internal causative source by way of a closed plot of the customary causal chain. This is a self-contained circuit which, it turns out, is contained in the entrails of each separate natural formation. This circuit is just that ontological base in which each separate natural formation finds and displays its exclusive individuality and asserts itself in the capacity of “causa sui ” – the cause of itself.
Posted in Philosophy | Tags: causa sui, causal chain, cause of itself, closed causative circuit, conventional concept, creationism, determinism, diversification, existence, God, idea, natural formation, religiosity, ring determinism, scientifical materialism, self-contained causative circuit, self-development, self-maintenance, self-organization, self-preservation, self-resumption, synergetic wholeness, systemic wholeness | No Comments »