Intellectual situation in the Arab world 'retarded'
Staff Report
Abu Dhabi:
The intellectual situation in the Arab world is not just retarded,
but is suffering from ignorance and lack of acknowledgement,
said a Saudi intellectual at a lecture yesterday.
DAMN!
“Arabs and Muslims are in a very bad condition. We live out of history.
As a matter of fact, we hinder the movement of history, and still live with pre-historic mentality,” said Al Belehi.
He said the world has keys, and we must know how to use them well.
He said the west started developing after authorities lost their holy nature,
and when reason and criticism prevailed.
Al Belehi said the Arab mind is too rigid, and relied too much on references and authorities, which results in duplications. Authorities must be criticised, challenged and questioned, and must not be given holy quality, he said.
He termed the current Arab culture as a culture of the dead — only the living deserve respect and encouragement, since they participate in change and
development for humanity’s benefit.
Al Belehi reviewed intellectual stages of the human civilisation, and the changes that affected them, and said cultures are infinite bodies that move and develop and interact with changes — they must move and compete to improve, and thoughts need to reach the public until the right vision is reached.
Following the lecture, which was introduced by Abdul Hamid Ahmad,
Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, an open discussion was held,
and many said they did not agree with the bleak picture painted by Al Belehi,
while some agreed with him on the need to renew and keep up
with the new values of this age, while maintaining Arab and Islamic values.
to read the full article:
http://gulfnews.com/nation/Society/10070994.html
Does anyone have any comments regarding this article?
Staff Report
Abu Dhabi:
The intellectual situation in the Arab world is not just retarded,
but is suffering from ignorance and lack of acknowledgement,
said a Saudi intellectual at a lecture yesterday.
DAMN!
“Arabs and Muslims are in a very bad condition. We live out of history.
As a matter of fact, we hinder the movement of history, and still live with pre-historic mentality,” said Al Belehi.
He said the world has keys, and we must know how to use them well.
He said the west started developing after authorities lost their holy nature,
and when reason and criticism prevailed.
Al Belehi said the Arab mind is too rigid, and relied too much on references and authorities, which results in duplications. Authorities must be criticised, challenged and questioned, and must not be given holy quality, he said.
He termed the current Arab culture as a culture of the dead — only the living deserve respect and encouragement, since they participate in change and
development for humanity’s benefit.
Al Belehi reviewed intellectual stages of the human civilisation, and the changes that affected them, and said cultures are infinite bodies that move and develop and interact with changes — they must move and compete to improve, and thoughts need to reach the public until the right vision is reached.
Following the lecture, which was introduced by Abdul Hamid Ahmad,
Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, an open discussion was held,
and many said they did not agree with the bleak picture painted by Al Belehi,
while some agreed with him on the need to renew and keep up
with the new values of this age, while maintaining Arab and Islamic values.
to read the full article:
http://gulfnews.com/nation/Society/10070994.html
Does anyone have any comments regarding this article?
posted by Arabized at
2:59 PM
2 Comments:
Let me break it down for you, an intellectual comes from intellect which then comes from intelligence.
So intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn.
So an intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas.
**sorry I didnt respond sooner, I didnt get any notification that you left a comment :/
ARAB WORLD HAVE DEPENDED ON THE OTHER NATIONALITIES , FOR THEIR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS , SIMULTANEOUSLY IT WAS THEIR MORAL DUTY TO PARTICIPATE & APPRECIATE ALL THOSE INTELLECTUAL IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES SOCIALLY , THAT WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE BASIC ELEMENT TO GET CONNECTED "INTELLECTUALLY" ! .. LACK OF SOCIAL CONTACTS OR CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN THEIR AND OTHERS' TRADITIONAL EXCHANGES AND THE QUALITY OF THE APPRECIATION DUE TO EGO AND SUPERIORITY BY WEALTH HAS WIDEN THE GAP OF THE "RANDEZ-VOUS" , ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENON . THE TENDENCY TO HIRE THE BRAINS IS NOT THE SOLUTION , BUT TO GENERATE THE INDIVIDUAL & INDIGENOUS ARAB WITH ALL SOCIAL CREDENTIAL IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF THE TEXTURE OF "INTELLECTUAL" COMMUNITY ! THE ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL NEED OF THE ENTIRE ARAB WORLD !!... SAUDI'S SATELLITES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURAL ADVANCEMENT IS THE RIGHT ANSWER TO GENERATE & BREED THE COMMUNITY AND FOUND THE RIGHT EMBEDDED BRAINS ABOVE THE INTELLECTUALS ACROSS THE PLANET !
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