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Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Department of Arabic Studies
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, Israel
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The Interdisciplinary Center -
Herzliya, Israel
Lauder School of Government,
Diplomacy & Strategy
Institute for Policy & Strategy
2006
GENDER & FAMILY ISSUES AS A
SOURCE OF
TENSION BETWEEN ISLAM & THE WEST
GAP OF VALUES
"The clash of cultures between
the West and Islamic fundamentalism did not erupt in September 2001, nor was it
discovered by Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations, in 1993. It
started much earlier, when Western ideas began to infiltrate into the Islamic
space. The threat escalated further when mass media, especially satellite TV
channels, started bringing the Western style of life into almost every Islamic
home, tent, living room, or bedroom. This clash of values is today, taking
place inside Islamic societies, inside the Islamic family, and inside the
Islamic soul.
The internal dilemma between
tradition and modernism has caused a large number of negative phenomena, such
as tension between generations, (especially between fathers and their daughters
who strive to adopt Western patterns of behavior); between husbands and wives;
and between any person and what he or she might perceive as an older set of
values according to which he or she was brought up. The relevance of Islamic
teachings, values, traditions, and habits to the modern Muslim life, is
challenged in many Islamic societies, especially in the cities of homeland Arab
states and in Muslim immigrant populations living in the West."...........
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