Contemporary Identity-Issues within the Islamic World
بسم اللّٰه والحمد اللّٰه والصلاة واسلام على رسول اللّٰه - By Iffat We have despoiled the inheritance that we from our fathers won. The heaven from the zenith has dashed it down -Iqbal Ever since the second World War and the subsequent emancipation of various colonies of the west, the affected people have been groping in the wreckage to find their identity, a sense of belongingness to where they came from, a sense of history which was mercilessly denied to them. One of the major groups affected by this phenomenon is Muslims. Muslim psyche has been undergoing this phenomenon for more than fifty years now wherein they've been, not exclusively so, conditioned to believe that anything the west does not approve of is categorically inferior including their own civilization. The Muslim youth unfortunately has yielded to the diligent attempts of the west to pull asunder the strings that bind them with their ancestors. Everything Western is appealing to them, from sartorial choices to year-r