Central within the current debate on the impact of the information and communication technologies are the theories of the “global culture” and “cultural clashes”, or global village and clash of civilizations. According to the first theory (ICTs) will generate global culture or American culture and homogenous religious patterns; the cultural dimension of globalization. On the...Read More

One’s language strongly participates in forming one’s culture and communication patterns. Arabic language itself led the Arab-Islamic culture to be past-oriented, certainty-oriented, and collectivistic. Arabic language also led the Arab-Islamic communication patterns to be high-context and deductive. Click here to read more.Read More

If Western civilization is synonymous with the United States of America (USA), the Islamic civilization necessarily identical to the Prophet Muhammad who began a succession of civilization by building the Nabawi Mosque in Medina 1439 years ago. In 13 American-British colonies, Anthony Benezet in 1775, founded the Human Rights’ organization (HAM) to abolish slavery. Thomas...Read More

This is one of the greatest moments in my entire life. Words can hardly express how I feel, neither can they reveal what I want to say. Sixty years ago, Professor Cleveringa, a man of integrity and honor, deeply concerned with what is right and wrong, stood in this same auditorium and denounced courageously the...Read More