Politics, Leadership and Power: The Mutual Compatibility of Islam and the West

Conflict of civilizations will be the latest phase in the evolution of the conflict of the modern world,says Samuel Huntington in his The Clash of Civilizations, but Huntington is blatantly wrong. The clash of civilizations is the genesis of the history of mankind. All the prophetic missions were ascribed to teach people to differentiate between truth and false and Islam is the youngest among them revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbh) in the 7th century (CE) which is thus proclaimed in the Holy Qur'an as Noor i.e. light and all other paths of life are curtailed as Jaheliyah i.e. darkness. The whole of the Democratic past and present of the West is myopic and is reduced to the status of a heinous instrument decorated with the Machiavellian political grammar and set with unscrupulous hypocrisy, fathomless hoax and abysmal fraud. Islamic politics is completely free of all those odious attributes rather full of moral values and justice. Thus, it is important to realize that the clash between Islam and the West (adorned by Democracy) is nothing but the conflict of cultures which are not compatible rather more importantly mutually exclusive.

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Mohammad A. Ashraf, Assistant Professor, United InternationalUniversity (UIU), Bangladesh: Received B.Sc. (Hons.) inAgricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU)and M.A. in Economics, University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada.Presently, a Doctoral Research Scholar, Northern University ofMalaysia (UUM)and an author of 5 books.