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| Al Andalus |
Ask for the best universities, they would name you, Alexandria, Cordoba, Seville, Istanbul and Baghdad. Equal rights for women? They would quote the Quran. The younger generation thought that was the best thing since sliced bread, but the only thing is that sliced bread had not been discovered yet! They were doing hype things. They had coffee, musical recitals, public debates, jurisprudence, perfumes, libraries and social lubricants. What the rest of the world had to offer? They were barbarians living in the Dark Ages. And the rest of the world was worried that the newest of the Abrahamic religions which had the courage to discuss God decrees in the open were influencing their own people.
The clerics and the philosophers of the Islamic tradition became conceited. They felt they knew it all. They can do no wrong. There was nothing more to learn. Then it stopped, the learning, the yearning to learn, to realise of man’s shortcoming of what they can know. They soon became dogmatic and obtuse.
The barbarians underwent a process of self-discovery, a Renaissance. In a flash, they had a revelation to gain wisdom to modernise. They started talking about liberty and freedom. Their society prospered. Their universities opened doors to all and soon they become the world standards. The believers in the Islamic world fell threatened. Some embraced it willingly. Others gave a fight. Unable to keep up with super rapid changes in the world, they recoiled to clamour the good old times of the 9th century and decreed that we all should return to its glory days. They push for their agenda and boldly exhibit their intent through gory, violent depictions of their conquests.
Now who is the barbaric one?
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