Dr Abdullah bin Musa Al Tayer
The statements of Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III, about the “chess pieces”, which he did not regret breaking during his military tour in Afghanistan, are talking in Britain and the world. This is not taken out of context, and is not shocking to many in the West and East, because it is an extension of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison, and one of the symptoms of troubled relations between Muslims and the West.
Since 2001, Muslims have attempted to improve their mental image among non-Muslims in the West, and have made deep updates to their curriculum and promoted moderation and tolerance to the point of dissolving in love for the other. But I have yet to see a serious study that measures the size of the positive change in others’ attitudes about Muslims.
The problem goes back to its roots in the immortal saying “East is East and West is West”, and to the deep-rooted beliefs that we humans differentiate from those who “like us”. Like they are not. Streptoderma no one is innocent, but those who have the power to impose their point of view, and the weak who repeat complaints and complain of complaints.
In survey studies that are not recent, and not even that old, 53 to 68% of Muslims believe that Westerners are selfish, violent, greedy, arrogant, extremist, and immoral, in contrast to between 29 and 44%. Those who see to their respect towards women, and that they are honest, tolerant and generous. 58% of Westerners believe Muslims are extremists, 51% see them as honest, 50% see them as violent, 30% think Muslims are tolerant, and Muslims’ respect for women was no higher at 22%.
There are regions in which the West has been in conflict with Muslims since the Islamic conquest, having undergone Crusader invasions. ending with colonialism and Arabs and Muslims bearing the brunt of terrorism as a result of suicide bombings and suicide traps perpetrated by Arabs and Muslims. Western capitals and cities were later occupied in Iraq and Afghanistan and direct conflict between Arabs and Muslims in those two countries with Western forces added further fuel to the fires of inherent religious, cultural and ethnic differences between adherents. two sides.
An elderly British woman in a village in central England seemed inspired as she treated me. She spoke to me with half a face, and asked me fearfully: “Do you have a family?” I understood from the tone of his voice that it was not an interrogative question, but an exclusion. When I replied that I had a family, she turned to me with her full face and started talking to me like a normal person.
For one side to see the other, these two camps, have as a goal the common goal that relations between Arabs and Muslims should strive for, on the one hand, and Westerners of various sects, on the other. The leap towards acceptance, coexistence and human brotherhood are still distant goals, despite the sincere desire of rational people and the great efforts made by Islamic parties such as the Muslim World League. Achieving results that measure up to the level of effort put in.
According to the Pew Research website; Majorities in Israel (63%), Spain (63%), Germany (59%), the United States (54%), and the UK (52%) believe that some religions are more violent than others. And when those who share this view are asked which religion they consider to be the most violent, a significant number of people in each of these countries name Islam. Muslims, on their part (theologically) cannot describe Judaism or Christianity as one or both of them as a violent religion because they believe in the two religions and their messengers and prophets. white) and common values among them (liberalism, secularism, democracy, freedom and human rights).
Western alignment with Ukraine is not just for interests, it is the alignment of a race with each other, and values that protect its threatened existence, and hence statements by Western media and political elites to equate Ukrainian immigrants Appeared alienated to the rest of their neighbors in Eastern and Western Europe, in contrast to immigrants from the Middle East who are ethnic and white in their environment and their shared values.
Prince Harry’s statements are one of the setbacks in the faltering and uneven reconciliation process between the two sides, and the books belly are filled with stereotypes in each camp about the other, and by Arab countries, particularly the Kingdom. The openness to the other about the efforts made sends sharp and startling messages to the Western mind-set, whose elite critics have turned to closeness. The other camp has, in fact, become some Western gatekeeper preachers who warn of doom and gloom and big talk of Saudi Arabia’s negligence of its religion, as they claim.