The rationality of Islam and its critical approach is thus...

The rationality of Islam and its critical approach is thus in contrast to the yellow journalism of the western media and the insults to which western officials and authors stoop in the name of democracy. Insult to divine religions and the Prophets stems from weak logic and reasoning.

The German Writer, Herbert Prantel in his newspaper article says that sacred books including the Holy Quran and the Bible should not be placed higher or even parallel with what he likes to call the fundamental culture of the west. By fundamental culture, he means western liberal democracy and seems to be oblivious to its flawed nature. He likes to ridicule divine religions but is not ready to accept even a healthy criticism of the hopeless system of western democracy.

This shows the ignorance of Islam in the West, which seems to be still entrapped in the absurd ideas of the medieval ages. These poor souls should understand that it was Islamic culture that freed Europe from the dark ages and it was the translation from Arabic into Latin of Islamic scientific works that inspired the Renaissance and the subsequent Industrial Revolution by first freeing the European mind from the rigid domination of the Church.

But how could one call western liberal democracy a fundamental culture? This is open to discussion. Professor Werner Schiffauer of Germanys Frankfurt University defines fundamental culture as a culture prevailing in society on which the different strata have unanimity.

However, Professor Schiffauer admits difficulty in imposing this culture on a multilateral society with different cultures and traditions but nevertheless is arrogant enough to say that western liberal democracy should be imposed on all including Muslim countries no matter how offended they feel. German Sociologist, Professor Ms. Irmgard Pinn also holds similar views and calls on Muslims in Europe to give up their religion and become absorbed in western society. Ms.

Pinn adds: “The Muslims who preserve their culture and traditions, who go to the mosque and perform their religious duties, should be expelled. Thus, liberalism, which claims to accept criticism, is in fact more fundamentalist in its negative aspects than the accusation of fundamentalism it levels at Muslim rationalists.