If you live somewhere in the middle east and north africa, where islamism was born, you can't miss the fact that something is going wrong. The main product of this area's societies is religious fanaticism, a version of fundamentalism more dangerous and, sadly, more convincing than any other extremist cultural product.
12 years passed since we entered the third millenium, during which, the world has deeply changed. Mass media start to loose its impact on the average citizen, Internet become some kind of cultural component of the human's personality. In this world, knowledge is now the easiest product people can acquire. And in this world, tradition knows its weakest moment since the dawn of the human race.
So why is there fanaticism? how do people manage to ignore the universal rights of free speech, democracy and free will, despite all this unstoppable flooding of ideas, possibilities and perspectives that technology and computing is proud to offer?
The answer of this question is not unique. Fundamentalism in the MENA is different than christian fundamentalism. Islamism is surely a product of the decay of the middle eastern bundle of civilisations and culture. Being violent and basically ignorant, islamism is a reaction to a world where the power is for the more open minded and the more individually free.
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12 years passed since we entered the third millenium, during which, the world has deeply changed. Mass media start to loose its impact on the average citizen, Internet become some kind of cultural component of the human's personality. In this world, knowledge is now the easiest product people can acquire. And in this world, tradition knows its weakest moment since the dawn of the human race.
So why is there fanaticism? how do people manage to ignore the universal rights of free speech, democracy and free will, despite all this unstoppable flooding of ideas, possibilities and perspectives that technology and computing is proud to offer?
The answer of this question is not unique. Fundamentalism in the MENA is different than christian fundamentalism. Islamism is surely a product of the decay of the middle eastern bundle of civilisations and culture. Being violent and basically ignorant, islamism is a reaction to a world where the power is for the more open minded and the more individually free.
[to be continued]
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