Salam al Rabadi : researcher and author in international
relations \spain.
Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela \ spain
National
independence,must remain geographically division only,not civilized
division Contains basic differences.and If there are lessons
can be learned from historical developments, in terms of the problematic relationship between religion and the state, in the forefront of
these lessons include:
1 -
Linking religion in the hands of the rulers: inevitably leads to the
exploitation of religion for political purposes. This is our current reality.
2 -
If religion to overcome
another religion: this means converting the second religion's followers to
second-class population. And equality in this case become possible in such a
framework.
3 -
Inside every religion there is a difference: especially if it were
combined religious and secular power, in the hands of the Governor of a
particular religious group. And therefore are talking here,
for a system of government: Wahhabi, Alawite, Shia,
Sunni, Maronite....
4 -
A political system that combines state and religion: does not prevent all cases
stop the conflict between greedy governance, whether family or a party or
even the closest relatives.
5 -
The reality of religious interference
in government: freezes society and to prevent and stop the development.
6 -
any country Constitution did not provide for To determine the religious identity of the state: religion turns
to a bombing of a
community and political failure. because it is impossible to satisfy the followers of all religions and sects
and creeds. Lebanon good example
of this.
All
those facts and lessons:Cross-cutting and Conflicting Need to evaluate.
There has been a lot of discussion and debate around, and under different headings: Islam and modernity, Islam between the self and the achievements of the era, Islam between the past and the future, Islam between comfort intellectual familiar and among other ideas different: Christian, liberal, Marxist, technological.
There has been a lot of discussion and debate around, and under different headings: Islam and modernity, Islam between the self and the achievements of the era, Islam between the past and the future, Islam between comfort intellectual familiar and among other ideas different: Christian, liberal, Marxist, technological.
To the present day, Arabs and Muslims have not been able the answer clearly and critically about them.On the contrary, there is a confusion
of thought prevalent and dominant in all the prints, as well
as there is in the mixing of concepts and facts in everything
published, and believed in the cultural field.
These
trends are today in the most difficult crises. One of the main
manifestations:This ideological conflict and security, cultural and even the
military,whether this conflict Visible or invisible,Silent or noisy.A good example of this,what ails the Islamic sects Currently of the differences among them or within the Muslim community in general between: moderate and fundamentalist, radical, liberal, Parties, the Muslim ikhwan, religious fundamentalism parties,Civil society organizations,Establishments religious.
It
also can not be ignored, one of the most important intellectual turmoil prevailing in the present, Based
on the problem: how to deal with the different other? unfortunately more specific, The other is not only foreign non-Arab, it is also, Arab Christian
citizen, as is the current reality: in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon.
We
are facing an era, the barriers fell and contacted people together,no
separation of connection, which overlap, and visual media and audio, visual and
written. Where cultures mixed and overlapping and continuous. We are in the era of the birth of human
culture,common,not only is the Christian,not only are Islamic,not only is
Marxism,not only liberal,not only is spirituality,not only is the material,not
only abstract,not only is the technological. It's a culture of human rights and
all the culture of humanity and all humanity,and every attempt to secede from
this global trend Algarve is a desperate attempt and loss of time and a waste
of effort.
It
seems that all those lessons that teach them history or the present reality, do
not leave us only one way. Namely way
the secular or civil,system of religious freedom and human dignity. Which is
based on the religious neutrality of powe and give religious freedom of the
individual. Thus, the separation of religion and state. As the separation of
religion and politics should be learned them experiments, including the Arab
history, secularism is one of the most important prerequisites for keep rode
civilization.
