Does Islam Stifle Free Speech?
The Islamic faith has not been allowed to evolve with more open or contemporary times. That's because western imperialism and its quest for cultural hegemony across the world incites a siege mentality amongst many, causing a polarisation and a self-defensive gravitation toward older norms and customs so as to distinguish and protect themselves from the west. And besides this, the west, and much of the incorporated world, refuses to acknowledge that a people's consciousness of themselves as one does not need to be limited to the borders of the nation-state. A nation does not only achieve corporeal form only when it has a seat in a United Nations that has not been structured to recognise nations that transcend borders. People talk about India and China being the most populous nations on the planet, but fail to realise that Muslims are themselves a nation of similar numerousness. Hence, the west does not understand how Muslims can empathise with each other as compatriots even th