The Contemporary Islamic Governed State Quotes

“The secular nature of the liberal West does not mean all institutions or discursive methods that are by-products of Western thought somehow, ipso facto, must be amoral and/or immoral.”
― Joseph J. Kaminski, The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

“The modern Western state at its core is amoral, with little or no concern about individual morality , whereas morality is a central concern with any real Islamic conception of the state or the general good.”
― Joseph J. Kaminski, The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

“In many ways, the prized tolerance of these [Western] societies has an obverse side in the form of an intolerance or disregard for other civilizations, which may not subscribe to the ‘universal’ nature of western”
― Joseph J. Kaminski, The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

“The entire concept of democracy must be freed from the oppressive grips of the West that feel they have the only authentic (i.e., liberal) understanding of a very complex philosophical approach to governance.”
― Joseph J. Kaminski, The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

“This should not be all that surprising considering the vastly different historical circumstances surrounding the way secularism took hold between the West and the Muslim world. Secularism in the West was more of a bottom-up process driven largely by civil society , while in the Muslim world secularism was a top-down process first imposed by colonizers and then by the local elites and autocrats that inherited the mantle of authority from those colonizers following their departure (Nasr 2010b).”
― Joseph J. Kaminski, The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization