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Title: Islam and the West: The Possibility of a Nonkilling Future
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Bertram A  (author)orcid ; Iribarnegaray, Deanna R (author)
Publication Date: 2013
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14365
Open Access Link: http://nonkilling.org/center/book-review/nonkilling-security-and-the-state/Open Access Link
Abstract: All of Islam, despite its complexity as a world religion, is being vilified and construed as militant today, particularly in the West. This raises the question, "Is a nonkilling relationship at all possible between Islam and the West?" The irony is that it is the homogenising spread of Western Civilization across the globe that is confronting all other cultures and thriving at their expense. This unrelenting hegemony is increasingly provoking angry and violent responses as more cultures become alienated and homogenised under what are the end results of rampant globalisation: consumerism and capitalism on a global scale. The forces of unrestrained free trade, deregulation and privatisation have created "The Market", a powerful entity whose laws seem to go too easily unquestioned by its corporate servants. Globalisation is creating, across the broad sweep of nations, an ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor not only in terms of wealth but also in terms of human rights (George, 2003; Stiglitz, 2002; Oxfam, 2004). In so many societies the spread of globalisation is consequently resulting in the social exclusion of the 'Other', those who are poor, marginalised or who do not conform. We seek to explain in this paper how this process of exclusion is taking place. As Galtung (2002: 51) says, 'we cannot globalise the marketplace 'ad infinitum' without also, sooner or later, globalising our souls ...'.In this respect,Islam is of great significance in the world today because it stands at the cutting edge of new thinking: Through its gathering resurgence, it is levelling a challenge at the moral integrity of globalisation. How is it doing this? While nonkilling principles can be found in all world religious faiths, Islamic Civilization actively embraces diversity and rejects discrimination based on race, ethnicity and colour.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Nonkilling, Security and the State, p. 323-347
Publisher: Center for Global Nonkilling and Creighton University
Place of Publication: Honolulu, United States of America
ISBN: 0983986215
9780983986218
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
160607 International Relations
160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440899 Political science not elsewhere classified
440808 International relations
440806 Gender and politics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940301 Defence and Security Policy
940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified
810199 Defence not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230301 Defence and security policy
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Editor: Editor(s): Joám Evans Pim
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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