Tunisians call on Rest of World
Tunisians call on Rest of World
I think it is the duty of Muslim Tunisians to say this to France and the French: " In the name of democracy , you did wrong when voting for someone who would wreak havoc in the Arab world. If we were you, we put the matter right, and this for example by giving Libya its oil back, and by allowing young North Africans living in your home to learn their own language."
Furthermore, it appears that the Western people have become so docile that their governors often allow the luxury of upsetting them in foreign policy matters (in particular). We, revolutionary Tunisians, call on our friends in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland ..., America and in the rest of the world to join us in a political-social change of mind-sets, which goes hand in hand with our common aspirations for a better world.
Mohamed Hammar
Islamic Right is Political Left
Islamic Right is Political Left
In Islam the right hand is good for all that is good, clean and correct. The right hand is the one that holds the Kuran on Judgment Day. While the left hand is no good.
In politics there's no reason why right politics (Ennahdha is right-winger; el-tahrir is on the right etc.) matches with right in Islam. Symetrically, there's no reason why left politics in a Muslim society does not even suspect it can rely on islam to fuel its action.
Conclusion:
- The Tunisian Francophone left is almost sunk just because it thinks within estranging mindsets. What they need to do for relief and survival is: Unlearn and relearn their rapport to Islam.
- Religion -driven parties had better go leftwards if they wish to have a place in the electorate's hearts.
- Right wingers other than Ennahdha ought to take after religion- fuelled parties, as they now have good reason to do it.
Mohamed Hammar
Islamists Vs Secularists in Tunisia: How to eradicate the tensions
Islamists Vs Secularists in Tunisia:
How to eradicate the tensions
As I see it, recurring tensions between islamists and secularists in Tunisia are all due to the lack of religious and political freedom of expression amongst Muslims, be they in Tunisia or elsewhere. If the push for such freedom was at least tantamount to to the pull exerted by the lure of conflictual tensions, there would be ne such ailment called Islam Vs Laïcité/secularism.
Therefore, one urgent issue for the time being to counter this problem is, in my opinion: Get to know what one wants from the political change, from any change; not just sit back and obsessively watch how the so-called experts of all types are crushing people's natural and nativist leaning towards freedom with their exasperating technicalities.
God be with the people of Tunisia
Mohamed Hammar
US, British & Continental Muslims: How about better understanding?
US, British & Continental Muslims: How about better understanding?
You happen to be Muslim in countries that already relish all kinds if freedom. So far so good. One advantage of it is that you get to know better than we, mainstream Mulims do, how mighty Allah is, He Who has guided you on the path of Islam. Another benefit is that the freedoms you're enjoying in your respective countries are bound to help you value Islam in its purest spirit and also in its most stringent rules and regulations.As Freedom helps you grasp such aspect better than anything can help us do so.Simply because we, unlike you, are not familiar with freedom, so much so that we happen to envision Islam in a way other than that in which you envision it.
For you, Islam is a complement to an already acquired freedom. for us, it's got to be most and foremost a very powerful method that we can ever implement to caah hold of the very frredoms you acquired via means other than Islam. In this regard we differ from each other. And in this regard we can complement each other.
How could you and we juggle this situation? The ball is in your court for the following: You had better try to researh ways to comprehend the way we think, in terms of major world issues such as the Palestinian everlasting conflict, the Iraqi question, the Afghani problem, or - last but not least- the Libyan "cancer". Then you need to make it go through the Islamic sieve of your own souls and minds, so that you aspire to have a smattering of how oppressed we still are, of how terrible the impact of injustice is on our souls and minds.
And the ball is in our court for the following: We've got to cooperate with you in a bid to account for our ills related to such world issues and causes, in a way that requires a minimum of faithfulness to the truth.
God Be with you and us
On Him we rely
Mohamed Hammar
An appeal to American Muslims
An appeal to American Muslims
I was recently shocked at hearing one representative of Ennahdha party emphasising that there wouldn't be any harm in ladies being underclothed or folks sipping alcoholic drinks in post-revolutionTunisia.
However, the shock did not stem from my being indignified at such stand. The problem with such an announcement (to the media in the USA and to an Arabic paper) is not its ethical dimension, as every Muslim knows what's good and what's bad for themselves. The problem is: Is Tunisia so feeble in civilisation as to inspire her politicians in so narrow a perpective? Isn't there more to a Muslim's life than complaining about scanty clothing and condemning alcohol consumption?
I believe that on Jan. 14 Tunisians revolted againt a certain view of the world that had become so stale that life had lost much of the sense philosophers and thinkers had tried ti instill to it. Are Tunisians bound to be reduced to a veil, to a Jebba or to a beard?
We're undeniably far more inspired than that. And I believe time has come for our coreligionists in the States, elsewhere in the advanced world, and wherever Muslims happen to live, to think of the Muslims' future in more dignified terms. For instance, I suggest American Muslims create some lobbying aiming at the following: Preventing the implementation of science for causing damage to humankind and the earth. This objective alone needs a re-shuffling of the school system; it would be very religiously rational to teach the youth how to be critical of science itself; it is a purpose that would help decrease human greed, which is basically based on an unconditional faith in science, which is intrinsically anti-Islamic.
Anyway I have no doubt that cooperative work between associations of US Muslims and their counterparts in Tunisia, inclusive of CSID, could help raise awareness in this regard. This is the least one can wish for now.
Mohamed Hammar
A message to American diplomacy
A message to American diplomacy
If I were an American decision maker, I would stop siding with petty Islamism in Tunisia and opt for the backing up of authentic Islam. One reason is that the former, being fake, only permits the anti-Islamic forces jointly based in Tunisia and in France to weave conspiracies such as the one that ensued the AfricArt cinema event last Sunday.
As a result of such misdemeanour, the country will lose faith in the rationality it has acquired from the revolution, and the USA will be regarded no more as a minder of Islamism but as a party unable to forward its pledge regarding Islamism.
In a nutshell, the best thing for the USA to do is: Cooperate in a closer way with genuine religious thinkers in a bid to strengthen cultural and political ties with our inspiring country.
Mohamed Hammar
Prof. M.Fadel of Toronto Uni says 'yes' to Neo-Ijtihad
Prof. M.Fadel of Toronto Uni says 'yes' to Neo-Ijtihad
On its opening day, the "Center for the Studies of Islam and democracy" in Tunis presented the public with a lecture by Prof. Mohammad Fadel, teacher of law and researcher in Islamic legal history at the University of Toronto, Canada.
During the debate, I asked the lecturer: "What if we addressed the people of Tunisia saying: What you did to free yourselves from despotism is genuine Islam, so let's stick to the ways you implemented that proved efficient and consider this to be a modern and authentic way of practicing islam", to which he replied: "I am with you; this can be achieved providing that you get based on a new perspective of Islam not on salafi ones."
Mohamed Hammar
Designer of strategies for change via an Islam-language methodology
Tun. gov. keeps to July 24 vote: People's triumph over nose pokers
Tun. gov. keeps to July 24 vote:
People's triumph over nose pokers
The Tunisian government's decision to stick to the July 24- vote of the constituent assembly must have been a blow to all sorts of nose pokers, inclusive of the national "High Authority for Achievement of Revolution Objectives", let alone alien policy-makers.
As someone who has been working on how to "produce" in Arabic what can't have been translated into it (from the modernist mind), the first teaching I have obtained from the current stage of production is: We are universal(ly) Tunisians who are bound to think for themselves; we have thought and decided the Revolution has to remain Tunisian.
M.H
Linguistic Islam and Chomskyan Mind against World Evil
Linguistic Islam and Chomskyan Mind
against World Evil
Should one believe Noam Chomsky when he asserts that "My works on linguistics have in themselves no ideological consequence; their character is purely scientific (…)But linguistics does not permit to change the world" (1) and, at the same time, value the correctness of the man's thoughts and the pertinence of his judgments on international issues in world politics and ideology?
In other words I suspect that Chomsky is so perspicacious and righteous, not only because he is an intellectual having opted for humane activism in the name of nothing but his own educational background, basic law and ethics, but also and chiefly because he is a scholar endowed with the outstanding intellectual capacities proper to his science – innate linguistics- allowing him to have a say, out of his Linguistic Mind. Therefore, I strongly believe Chomsky is unwittingly contributing to changing the world more with his science than with his personal ideas. And here lies the scientifically religious - and specifically Islamic - value of Chomsky's work (2).
If this was to be an axiom for some looming theory, two alternatives would stem from it in light of what is going on in the world today (the Middle-East issue, the Afghani and Iraqi issues, and now the Libyan issue, and so on) :
1. Muslims in the first place will have to always learn novel ways, off the beaten track: Combining Islam and linguistics, from the linguistic superman's already ramified theory ("Generative and transformational grammar") is one such way.
2. Non-Muslims will have to catch hold of the basics, not of Chomskyan science (which they have done), but of Chomsky's linguistic Mind as it is unveiled through his political opinions and through the various stands he takes on world matters.
All in all, a language-minded world community will be fundamentally impelled to shy away heaps of misunderstandings on intricate affairs. That will be feasible only by building up genuine communication super highways thanks to the joint power of Islam and language, any language.
Mohamed Hammar
(1) In "Les vrais penseurs de notre temps" de Guy Sorman, ed. France Loisirs, 1989, p. 136.
(2) My research (in Arabic) on the topic of « Speech is act/ Islam is act, so Speech is Islam" has led me up to this point.
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Tunisia is no topless bottle
Tunisia is no topless bottle
Some Tunisian folks from the US are happy with a Tunisian politician's proclamation of a nudist and drunken Tunisia. I wonder if Tunisia is to be built upon a bottle of gin and a topless body? What about self-empowerment and plans to help eradicate the world's diabolical ills and ridding it of materialistic malice? Gosh!
M.H