http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/11/10/m-shahid-alam-how-eurocentric-is-your-day/ Free Minds for a Free Palestine Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:06 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/11/10/m-shahid-alam-how-eurocentric-is-your-day/#comment-12847 guzin Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:45:42 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=5066#comment-12847 Only forgot to mention maybe the importance of Beytul hikme (House of Wisdom) in the history of Islam & Muslim Thinkers, and the impact this great movement of wisdom and the works produced in this era had later, by being translated in Toledo into their language, on the "Enlightenment of Europe" (they have called it Enlightenment-but this light has just been able to light their own dark corner-their room is still dark). Better not circulate this fact too much among Western Scientist and scholars and intellectuals, they might begin to suffer from an inferiority complex and this whole Western society (on top their politicians) will try to desperately search for something to feel supreme and maybe gets even more inhuman as it is. Why do they have been feeling this need to cover this historical fact for so many centuries? They could have accepted that the East is ahead, but they stole their science and used this as a tool to go and also steal other's land in the world, to oppress humans of other cultures, to rape all of civilisation existing in the world to later call that what they have built up: "Modern Civilisation". I do not want to be modern and I do not want to be civilized. I want to be outworn and uncultivated. Only forgot to mention maybe the importance of Beytul hikme (House of Wisdom) in the history of Islam & Muslim Thinkers, and the impact this great movement of wisdom and the works produced in this era had later, by being translated in Toledo into their language, on the "Enlightenment of Europe" (they have called it Enlightenment-but this light has just been able to light their own dark corner-their room is still dark).
Better not circulate this fact too much among Western Scientist and scholars and intellectuals, they might begin to suffer from an inferiority complex and this whole Western society (on top their politicians) will try to desperately search for something to feel supreme and maybe gets even more inhuman as it is.
Why do they have been feeling this need to cover this historical fact for so many centuries? They could have accepted that the East is ahead, but they stole their science and used this as a tool to go and also steal other's land in the world, to oppress humans of other cultures, to rape all of civilisation existing in the world to later call that what they have built up: "Modern Civilisation".
I do not want to be modern and I do not want to be civilized.
I want to be outworn and uncultivated.

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