The Sixth Annual Herzliya Conference 2006
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Herzliya Conference | January 2006 David Newman, Gideon Biger, Shaul Arieli; Amiram Oren; Moshe Brawer, Rafi Regev, Elisha Efrat, David Schattner, Amiram Gonen, Yossef Shilhav, Rassem Khamaisi, Oren Yiftachel; Nurit Kliot
The Sixth Annual Herzliya Conference 2006
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Mordechai Kedar | 2006
The Sixth Annual Herzliya Conference 2006
The conflict between Islam and the West is often described as a clash of values. Some Islamic thinkers, such as the famous Egyptian Sayyd Quttb see Western technology and spreading Western culture, as "intellectual and spiritual colonialism." Islamic fear comes from the breakdown of the traditional sources of social authority, an outcome of the Westernization of the youth. Western values, spread all over via media and technology, bring contradictory messages to the traditional Islamic worldview and their families remain unprotected by these barrages of a new world. The three most important and vulnerable issues are family values, the status of women, and the elders authority. This article provides a comparative outlook of 31 topics, all connected to the status of women, from the spectrum of Western pluralistic perception, to the harsh Islamistic attitudes. The comparison demonstrates how long can thediscrepancy between the two poles can be, and the significant distance between its two edges. Partial list of the 31 topics, overviewed in the article: Dress, Mobility, Virginity, Age differences, Culture of Shame, Loyalty in Marriage, Sexual Discourse, Female Genital Mutilation, Rape Victims, Divorce, Inheritance, Etc.
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