The AIDS Crisis
Dr. Malik Badri has done it again. In his earlier book The Dilemma of the Muslim Psychologists, published in 1978, he warned Muslim psychologists not to fall into the arms of Western secular psychology. This was at a time when Muslims were uncritically plunging headlong into any body of knowledge th...
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| author | Sabeena M. Watanabe |
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| description | Dr. Malik Badri has done it again. In his earlier book The Dilemma of the
Muslim Psychologists, published in 1978, he warned Muslim psychologists not
to fall into the arms of Western secular psychology. This was at a time when
Muslims were uncritically plunging headlong into any body of knowledge that
came out of the West. In his latest book The AIDS Crisis: An Islamic
Sociocultural Perspective, Badri is again ahead of his time in warning us about
the futility of adopting secular methods in dealing with the crisis of AIDS.
He explains the biological basis of HN and AIDS and the misconceptions
about its origins. American scientists are desperately trying to prove that AIDS
originated outside the United States. The author demolishes all these theories
with powerful arguments in which he cites studies and says:
I should like to conclude this chapter by saying that to believe that the gene
mutation of HIV took place from green monkeys to Africans and from
Africans to Haitians, and from Haitians to Americans in order to avoid the
obvious fact that the mutation might have taken place in the insulted, germ
ridden rectums of San Francisco homosexuals, is indeed an extremely farfetched,
racist, and unfair way to ward off stigmatism and ease cognitive
dissonance. (p. 128-29)
He further analyzes the thinkiig of various psychologists and influential
writers that contributed to the sexual revolution, from Freud, the father of the
sexual revolution to Maslow, Ellis, and Skinner. “After the sexual revolution
implemented it’s new morality, it was necessary for it to change the terms in
the language to pave the way for sex.” Thus, adultery became known as extramarital
relations and sodomizers became known as guy, which expresses
cheerfulness and joviality.
He suggests:
Knowing fully well why the Western sexual revolution is changing terminology,
they [refening to Muslim workers] should always call a spade a
spade. For example, they should use the proper Islamic terms such as ... |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0fe630f13484e1aa6591fa26b03fa932022-12-21T20:04:41ZengInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtAmerican Journal of Islam and Society2690-37332690-37411998-01-0115410.35632/ajis.v15i4.2145The AIDS CrisisSabeena M. WatanabeDr. Malik Badri has done it again. In his earlier book The Dilemma of the Muslim Psychologists, published in 1978, he warned Muslim psychologists not to fall into the arms of Western secular psychology. This was at a time when Muslims were uncritically plunging headlong into any body of knowledge that came out of the West. In his latest book The AIDS Crisis: An Islamic Sociocultural Perspective, Badri is again ahead of his time in warning us about the futility of adopting secular methods in dealing with the crisis of AIDS. He explains the biological basis of HN and AIDS and the misconceptions about its origins. American scientists are desperately trying to prove that AIDS originated outside the United States. The author demolishes all these theories with powerful arguments in which he cites studies and says: I should like to conclude this chapter by saying that to believe that the gene mutation of HIV took place from green monkeys to Africans and from Africans to Haitians, and from Haitians to Americans in order to avoid the obvious fact that the mutation might have taken place in the insulted, germ ridden rectums of San Francisco homosexuals, is indeed an extremely farfetched, racist, and unfair way to ward off stigmatism and ease cognitive dissonance. (p. 128-29) He further analyzes the thinkiig of various psychologists and influential writers that contributed to the sexual revolution, from Freud, the father of the sexual revolution to Maslow, Ellis, and Skinner. “After the sexual revolution implemented it’s new morality, it was necessary for it to change the terms in the language to pave the way for sex.” Thus, adultery became known as extramarital relations and sodomizers became known as guy, which expresses cheerfulness and joviality. He suggests: Knowing fully well why the Western sexual revolution is changing terminology, they [refening to Muslim workers] should always call a spade a spade. For example, they should use the proper Islamic terms such as ...https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2145 |
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