Ideas Can Also Kill: Five Assumptions that Uprisings in the Arab World have Disproved

Q3 Social Sciences

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2011-11-23 DOI:10.2202/1554-4419.1244

B. E. Hassan

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In 2011, the people of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and later Syria struggled to overthrow their despotic regimes and bring about radical political change. However, to date, little discussion has revolved around the role of long-standing assumptions about political change and human rights in the Arab world in prolonging the lifespan of these collapsing regimes. The first of these assumptions claimed that authoritarian rulers were the guarantors of stability in nations throughout the region. Second was the assumption that Islamists were the sole alternative to authoritarian regimes in the region. These uprisings also proved false the theory that democracy and civil and political rights were not priorities for peoples of the Arab world. Finally, the fourth assumption to be debunked is the claim that the people of the region are not ready for a democratic system that respects human rights because the religion of the majorityIslamis incompatible with democratic values and human rights.

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思想也会杀人:阿拉伯世界的起义推翻了五个假设

2011年，突尼斯、埃及、利比亚、也门、巴林以及后来的叙利亚人民奋力推翻了他们的专制政权，带来了激进的政治变革。然而，迄今为止，很少有人讨论长期以来关于阿拉伯世界政治变革和人权的假设在延长这些崩溃政权的寿命方面所起的作用。第一个假设声称，专制统治者是整个地区各国稳定的保证。其次是假定伊斯兰主义者是该地区独裁政权的唯一替代品。这些起义也证明了民主、公民权利和政治权利不是阿拉伯世界人民优先考虑的理论是错误的。最后，需要驳斥的第四个假设是，该地区的人民还没有准备好接受尊重人权的民主制度，因为大多数人信奉的宗教——伊斯兰教——与民主价值观和人权不相容。

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期刊介绍： Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.