How Islam Should Look at the debate of Human Rights
The human rights debate, as a matter of fact, has got firmly entrenched in the contemporary academic and political agenda. There are definite reasons for it, to which we shall come in a moment, but what has to be noted at the very outset is, since the issue of human rights has been brought up by the West which is presently the dominant civilisation, the attitudes towards this issue by the rest of humanity are likely to be largely determined by the standard rules of power: anything coming from the West comes from a power-position and as such evokes two types of responses, namely, Conformist—mere acceptance for the sake of it, or Rejectionist—mere rejection—- again for the sake of it, both of which speak of defeatist complexes and an inability to independently look at the reality of things.
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