Tunisian Intellectual Al-Afif Al-Akhdar On the Arab Identity Crisis and Education in the Arab World
From MEMRI. Mr. Al-Akhdar slams the Arab educational establishment for, in essence, teaching willful ignorance and inciting its students to violence. But in the process he plumps for an "international community of nations" and scoffs at "ethnocentrism" and calls for "the end of Allah's rights and the beginning of human rights". He is an explicit voice of the Moderns against the Anti-moderns. This reviewer finds his criticisms of Islam disturbingly similar to those that Andrew Sullivan, for example, has made against Christianity. These are the exact notes in the siren song of the Beast from the Sea [Revelation 13].::Submitted for your ride a white horse and hail the conquering leader [Revelation 6;1-2] files.