Islam Creator of the Modern Age
4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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revolution in thought, which it fully exploited. The
scientific and democratic revolution of Europe
might be termed the “secular edition” of the
monotheistic revolution of Islam. As this phrase
implies, the West has separated the religious and
secular aspects of the Islamic revolution.
The situation being such, it would be no
exaggeration to say that if Islam were to be deleted
from human history, all social and human progress
should have to be deleted along with it. The world
would then fall back into the Dark Ages where it
lay for so long in intellectual shackles before the
Islamic revolution came to bring it enlightenment.
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT
In ancient times, civil liberties did not include
freedom of thought. Censorship, in varying degrees
of rigorousness, has, in fact, been a worldwide
phenomenon in all periods of history. And whether
communities have been large or small has made no
difference.
The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
devotes no less than 25 pages to showing, under the
heading of ‘persecution.’ how at all stages of ancient
