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CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY
By Fakhre Alam, Delhi
University
At the height of the Kosovo conflict, a
resourceful Kosovar Muslim girl used her computer to write hundreds of
e-mails to inform the outside world of the atrocities that were being
committed near her village by the Serbian paramilitary goons. Over 50
years ago the co-religionists of the same girl in Palestine were driven
out of their homes and innumerous atrocities were committed against them
by the zionist thugs but the news of that wanton violence were not
disseminated effectively at the time because the victims lacked modern
information technology then in vogue in order to inform and enlighten the
world public about the barbarity of the children of Israel against their
Semitic cousins.
One can imagine that there were many Muslim girls in Deir Yasin, the
village whose inhabitants were massacred in Palestine shortly before the
inauspicious birth of the Zionist entity, and yet those young girls were
unable to inform the world public of their plight, because the resources
were lacking.
The new technology at the disposal of Muslims poses a challenge because
the same technology can be used by the enemies of divine religions to
provide the most profane subjects and images to Muslim youths. It is an
opportunity because at no time before have the Muslims been blessed with a
chance to close the ranks among themselves, to inform one another, to
communicate and overcome age old prejudices and biases among the Umma and
to present the message of Islam to the world.
Half of a century divided the little helpless Muslim girl in Deir Yassin
from the computer literate Muslim girl in the Kosovo village who tapped
away at the Keyboard with her little fingers to inform the world about the
atrocities while they unfolded.
During the past half a century, the world has rapidly and drastically
changed, ours has become a world of information super light ways and
information technology in contending viewpoints via against one another
which billions of e-mails are exchanged on a regular basis. In the 21st
century, we are provided with a new challenge presented to us by the
modern technology. It is through this new technology that potentially the
Muslim Umma can rise above centuries can potentially create a global
Islamic village in which all residents, the followers of Muhammad ibn
Abdullah, are in touch with each others plights as well as challenges.
The new information super-light ways can potentially create a world in
which Muslim are constantly in touch with each other, a new world in which
Muslim are no longer victims, but the masters of their own destiny.
Muslims can face this challenge if they start to realize exactly in which
they live, and fully comprehend their historic mission. If the schemers
and leaders of the Islamic societies make a resolution to use the new
technology to improve the lot of the Muslims around the world, they would
fulfill their historic responsibility.
The new technology has opened a vast vista before us, a new challenge, and
it is certain that Muslims who created great civilizations in the past
will rise to the occasion in the 21st century and once again prove to the
world that the followers of Muhammad Ibn Abdullah can adapt themselves to
the exigencies of their time. Muslims can and must fully and rationally
succeed in their bid to lay the foundation for yet another Islamic
civilization in the modern era. q |
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