Social Progress - Social Inclusion

أصبح الرهاب من الإسلام مرضًا عامًّا وظاهرة مجتمعية في أغلب المجتمعات المسيحية، تجاوزت أسبابها ومظاهرها مشكلة وجود متطرفين مسلمين هاجموا بعض المدن والتجمعات؛ لتكون صنعة وموردًا ماليًّا، ومكسبًا وتحشيدًا سياسيًّا ودينيًّا ومجتمعيًّا. فالخوف والتخويف من الإسلام مصدر ارتزاق وسبب للفوز في الانتخابات، وحشد للخائفين والحادقين حول زعماء شعبويين يتسلقون المناصب والنفوذ في مجتمعاتهم وبناء على تخويف الناس.

Despite the exemplary growth of the Islamic finance over the past decades, already crossing USD 1 trillion mark, neither have the poor segments of the societies been duly attended to nor have the common masses been offered adequate chance to benefit from Islamic financial services.

The evolving aid architecture and mounting development challenges caused by recent food, financial and energy crises, demand an urgent and critical review of existing aid modalities, policy-making and forums for international cooperation. In light of the rise of emerging powers, an important question is an extent to which the changing global order is transforming the nature of development cooperation.

The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism.