Islam and Globalization

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This paper examines how historians and researchers have found that globalization has many different effects on Islam and how Islam in turn could potentially have many positive effects on globalization. It discusses how globalization of democracy could have a positive effect on fair representation in Islamic nations and how with fair representation on a political scale, the West could better understand the ideals of Islam which the West now consider negative. It also contends that the Islamic faith addresses concepts of peace, equality and human rights which need to be considered during the process of globalization which is now currently focused on economic and technological factors. With the inclusion of the components of Islam in the process of globalization, world wide communities could benefit from globalization instead of feeling a negative or exploitative impact.

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"The ideals of globalization are also predominantly those of the West, Western faiths and Western technology and in many ways, the latest trend of technology that of genetic engineering leads people of Islamic faith from the East to wonder what Western elements of genetic engineering will be promoted and which elements will be ignored? While much of globalization is focused on the technological advances which occur, there are also other factors of globalization to consider, namely: globalization of the human condition; of civil society and multinational corporations; of governance; and of expansion of time and its elimination of space; all concerns to the future of Islam (Inayatullah, 2002)."

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