Eastern Knowledge and Colonial Education System

Most people are unaware that most of the modern technology and scientific inventions have their root in the non-Western civilizations. Islamic civilization both preserved and expanded Greek philosophical and scientific knowledge when such information was almost entirely forgotten in the West or rather neglected by the church. The numeral system which is used in the West also burrowed from the Arab, who included zero from the Indians. Islamic mathematicians were able to develop an arithmetic based on the decimal system and to make refinements in algebra (itself an Arabic word).

Misconceptions about Jihad

“Jihad” is one of those terms, like “Fatwa”, which has been adopted and distorted almost beyond recognition by the media. Indeed, many Muslims are unaware of the full depth of the meaning of Jihad; at times it seems that we prefer to maintain our blinkered view of this fundamental teaching of Islam. In this article I would like to give a clear picture about Jihad

Impact of globalization in Inter Cultural Communication

Intercultural communication between people is an integral attribute of the human society development, throughout the history. It is inevitable even for a single living sole in the mother earth to ignore the communication between cultures, especially in the globalized world. It will be most appropriate if I clarify the words globalization and intercultural communication before reflecting upon my understanding about the above mentioned question

Democracy, Gift or Curse

Democracy by definition means the government by people. That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way another in everything that affects their lives. Early democracy in Greece practiced by every member of a community having the possibility to enter personally, without mediators, his position on a particular issue into the decision making process. Later modern technologies enable to provide this possibility for increasingly larger and larger communities or through representatives as members of legislative bodies. This second arrangement is then called Representative Democracy, which is practiced by the modern nation.