Re: Nationalism is today's Global Problem
- From: "Acharya" <harinam108@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:24:46 GMT
Categorically false. Freedom of thought leads to knowledge of reality
distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all people. All else is
oppression and dictatorship which is ignorance.
The failure of Islam is due to its violent totalitarian philosophy.
"Parvez" <nawaz_chillizone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear All
The political objective In this world, as laid down by the Quran for
humanity, Is Universalism which shall be achieved by adopting a common
code of life, obtainable from the Quranic Injunctions, laws and
permanent values.
Tribal instinct persisted in all forms of living, from families and
tribes to the present national states. Each social group promotes
friendship between its members and hostility towards other group, in
order to maintain its own interests. Thus hostility to the outer groups
is as characteristic of nations as it was of tribes. Every nation has
feelings of ill-will and hatred towards its neighbor. Nationalism is a
feeling which is born out of hatred and lives on enmity. It does not
form merely a political grouping, it has developed in to a cult which
arouses in the Individual passionate devotion to his nation and violent
antipathy to other nations. Aldous Huxley says: Nationalism leads to
moral ruin. because it denies universality, denies the existence of a
single God, denies the value of the human being as a human being: and
because at the same time It affirms exclusiveness, encourages variety,
pride and self satisfaction, stimulates hatred and proclaims the
necessity and rightness of war.
Cavour has said: If we did for ourselves what we do for our country,
what rascals we should be. 14 He said further that: the creed of
Nationalism has had three unfortunate results
1. Humanity has been divided into a number of nation states with
conflicting interests.
2. A powerful nation has tempted to exploit the -weaker nations on the
pretext of safeguarding its interests.
The absence of moral restraint turned the world into an arena of beasts
as Wakeman rightly observed with only one principle in view that is
might is right. Politicians who follow Michiavelli believe that moral
rules are not binding on them. They reject moral considerations as
Irrelevant to political affairs. Emery Reves in his book "Anatomy of
Peace" says: Nothing can distort the true picture of conditions and
events in this world more than to regard one's own country as the
center of the universe, and to view all things solely In this
relationship to this fixed point. It is inevitable that such a method
of observation should create an entirely false perspective. Yet this is
the only method admitted and used by all the national governments of
our world, by our legislators and diplomats, by our press and radio.
All the conclusions, principles and policies of the people are
necessarily drawn from this warped picture of the world obtained by so
primitive a method of observation.
Within such a contorted system of assumed fixed points it Is easy to
demonstrate that the view taken from each point corresponds to reality.
If we admit and apply this method, the viewpoint of every single nation
appears indisputably correct and wholly justified. But we arrive at a
hopelessly confused and grotesque overall picture of the world.
Regards
Nawaz
www.parvez-video.com
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