This is why much...

This is why much, but far from all, of what is contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[^4] has been condoned by Muslim thinkers, and restated in the Islamic Declaration of Human Rights.[^5] Despite the possibility of agreement about judgments originating from totally different conceptual perspectives, there is a danger that unconscious conceptual leakage can take place when the agreement, and even disagreement, about particular judgments is articulated.

Perhaps it can be of assistance to consider a medical prohibition given by a physician to his patient against eating pork because of its high cholesterol content. Suppose the patient is a Muslim and refrains from pork because of the religious sanction. The doctor and his patient agree on the judgment that pork is to be avoided, but the conceptual systems upon which the judgment is based are very…