Knowledge being an important part of human survival needs to be vigorously pursued in our times which are going through a very stressful period of its entire life time. I am always bothered by the fact that why mankind, despite its tremendous progress in many uncharted fields of knowledge, is so badly bogged down in the quagmire of conflicting ideas? Why a synthesis could not be found as yet? To be very sincere I see this contemporary conflict is mainly based on religion, especially Islam. Since all religion is subservient to dogmas and fables, no religion could be a serious subject of intellectual discussion. But there is no doubt that Islam has become the core issue.
The issue with Islam is its outright denial to accept principles of pluralism in thoughts. A 7th century tribal doctrine coated in fear and rigidity is challenging the entire mankind to accept its views as universal. The people who are spearheading this doctrine of ignorance as a must for national and personal survival are doing it from the angle of a primal fear instilled into their mind from birth. They have no understanding that fear is not a faith it’s a cult and only devils follows a cult. For few thousand unruly members of an Arab pagan tribe what Muhammad gave as a formula for discipline is being preached as a survival kit in 21st century? Our lofty dream of a synthesis is impossible till such time this Islamic tendency to replace everything with Islam vanishes from the mind of those who are adamant to establish the Islamic ignorance.
The progressive mind will always be in eternal conflict with such rigid ideologies. The cherished ideals of a free world with tolerance, compassion, acceptance and mutual respect will only be possible when a huge chunk of the mankind will be freed from fear and subjugation of an ideology. This is not a day’s job; it will take ages to throw this yoke of fear.
Akbar Hussain
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