Words have a lot of power. Words especially said in an eloquent way can make you king e.g the talent of Barak Obama or words said not eloquently can make you a fool and you can even end up in jail e.g Mujhe kyoun Nikala by Nwaz Sharif. Although both of these people are the biggest hypocrites and Obama especially the biggest rat as they use the word for such a person in Mafia, but a good example to emphasize the importance of words.
Being a Muslim I often encounter words that are somehow associated with Muslims or Islam but their meanings are extremely distorted and muslims and non muslims use them abuse them sometime knowingly and sometimes unknowingly.
As an avid observer of semantics from successful people and a student of information war and propaganda I really feel this is a great time to reinvent and reword a number of outdated islamic terminology.
This need is more and more conspicuous by the fact that followers of Islam are stereotyped with certain specific terminologies that have some hidden undertones and malign agendas. for example
Muslim: follower of islam or a terrorist
Quran: a holly book, a historic book or a book that preaches zero rights for women
Islam: a religion of 1 billion people, a religion of Gucci revolutionaries muslims or a religion of terrorists shouting Allah hu akbar or a religion that preaches Jihad and kill non muslims or a religion that negates all of the above and is the single hope left for the world.
There can be number of other examples.
Now consider the following Gore Vidal Interview
and dig up some old Irish leader Gerry Adams interviews and compare them with interviews that BBC takes with non English speaking prominent people. You will very easily notice how BBC is able to convey a certain message that they are unable to accomplish with native English speaking but who don't necessarily carry the same agenda as that of BBC.
I give BBC example in particular as this is an era where English is the most spoken language around the world. It is an international language and one of the reason English are getting away with whatever stupid or outrageous or provocative act. Sometimes when they are caught red handed it is a lot of fun to watch their desperation (besides the fact). For example:
You cannot beat them in their language to convey your point. Well it does happen but it is very rare and if it does happen they employ every means to sensor that sometimes even in real time.
At the same time we see that English speaking countries mostly west in particular and other nations mostly referred to as first world nations seem to be lost. They have many problems. They seem to take 1step forward and 2 steps backward. They haven't figured out a proper system of governance. Despite a rich history of art and philosophy they can't figure out some basic laws of governance and justice and it seems they will keep experimenting with different political systems from capitalism to socialism to anarchism etc etc.
If you look at some of the islamic teachings they are quite dramatic and provocative. They wow you for a moment but the very next moment dismissed due to many many biases and wrong associations. These wrong associations are due to the many other negative connotations associated with the specific terms that are employed to explain them as in example above.
It is for this reason a precious piece of knowledge is being overlooked by west. Possibly the intention is deliberate or not deliberate the scholars in east and west especially followers of islam should take a mission to change the old deformed misused terms to new modern terms that could get more practical application. As an example consider these alternatives:
believers instead of muslims
islam: Ibrahimic religion
Quran: a book of laws for ghost, humankind and aliens (I bet many people around the world will be intrigued)
The point is people of the world can point out many ills of a capitalist system or its opposite socialist system but they cannot come up with an alternative. Many authors have written many best sellers for pointing out all that but if you ask them have they read Quran the answer is negative. They don't know that Quran says You get what you have toiled for. Or interest is as if you are at war with nature.
A rework of the islamic terminology might possibly attract the readers to this how to live 101 and possibly whole of humanity can benefit with this overlooked knowledge for very silly reasons.
Being a Muslim I often encounter words that are somehow associated with Muslims or Islam but their meanings are extremely distorted and muslims and non muslims use them abuse them sometime knowingly and sometimes unknowingly.
As an avid observer of semantics from successful people and a student of information war and propaganda I really feel this is a great time to reinvent and reword a number of outdated islamic terminology.
This need is more and more conspicuous by the fact that followers of Islam are stereotyped with certain specific terminologies that have some hidden undertones and malign agendas. for example
Muslim: follower of islam or a terrorist
Quran: a holly book, a historic book or a book that preaches zero rights for women
Islam: a religion of 1 billion people, a religion of Gucci revolutionaries muslims or a religion of terrorists shouting Allah hu akbar or a religion that preaches Jihad and kill non muslims or a religion that negates all of the above and is the single hope left for the world.
There can be number of other examples.
Now consider the following Gore Vidal Interview
and dig up some old Irish leader Gerry Adams interviews and compare them with interviews that BBC takes with non English speaking prominent people. You will very easily notice how BBC is able to convey a certain message that they are unable to accomplish with native English speaking but who don't necessarily carry the same agenda as that of BBC.
I give BBC example in particular as this is an era where English is the most spoken language around the world. It is an international language and one of the reason English are getting away with whatever stupid or outrageous or provocative act. Sometimes when they are caught red handed it is a lot of fun to watch their desperation (besides the fact). For example:
You cannot beat them in their language to convey your point. Well it does happen but it is very rare and if it does happen they employ every means to sensor that sometimes even in real time.
At the same time we see that English speaking countries mostly west in particular and other nations mostly referred to as first world nations seem to be lost. They have many problems. They seem to take 1step forward and 2 steps backward. They haven't figured out a proper system of governance. Despite a rich history of art and philosophy they can't figure out some basic laws of governance and justice and it seems they will keep experimenting with different political systems from capitalism to socialism to anarchism etc etc.
If you look at some of the islamic teachings they are quite dramatic and provocative. They wow you for a moment but the very next moment dismissed due to many many biases and wrong associations. These wrong associations are due to the many other negative connotations associated with the specific terms that are employed to explain them as in example above.
It is for this reason a precious piece of knowledge is being overlooked by west. Possibly the intention is deliberate or not deliberate the scholars in east and west especially followers of islam should take a mission to change the old deformed misused terms to new modern terms that could get more practical application. As an example consider these alternatives:
believers instead of muslims
islam: Ibrahimic religion
Quran: a book of laws for ghost, humankind and aliens (I bet many people around the world will be intrigued)
The point is people of the world can point out many ills of a capitalist system or its opposite socialist system but they cannot come up with an alternative. Many authors have written many best sellers for pointing out all that but if you ask them have they read Quran the answer is negative. They don't know that Quran says You get what you have toiled for. Or interest is as if you are at war with nature.
A rework of the islamic terminology might possibly attract the readers to this how to live 101 and possibly whole of humanity can benefit with this overlooked knowledge for very silly reasons.
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