Muslim societies are living a "pile-up" of landmarks and conflicts between allegiances, and this is a "clash" within the Muslim world, sociologist Ali El Kenz said Sunday in Algiers. "Conflicts between allegiances created troubles and disorder within Muslim societies. These conflicts are due to a clash which exists, not between civilisations, but inside the Muslim civilisation," Ali El Kenz said in a debate on "Intellectuals, Islam, and languages issues," organized by "Algerie-News" daily newspaper. "Why does an individual believe more in religious rule than in a legal one? Why does he believe in a Fatwa that a rule or a determined law?" he wondered, imputing this kind of behaviours to a “conflict” between the religious and knowledge or between myth and reason, mainly caused by a “net of contradictory traditions,” in which Muslims found themselves.
He said that Muslim communities changed social status and position with the appearance of new technologies of information and communication, because "Muslims were not used to see themselves throughout the world, they rather imagined themselves."
In the same context, he added the "Muslim presence is winning visibility in the western world” after the births of Muslims, from emigrating communities, in Europe and America," which made the Muslims look for new traditions in the religion, which are different from those inherited from their grandfathers," the sociologist said.
In this regard, Elkenz suggester to establish a secular system in Muslims countries rather than a laic system, because “secularism” remains a word overloaded with French connotations, one of the biggest colonizer countries, and is full of confusions, thus it is rejected.”
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