WATCH - Islamic professor: "Islam does not encourage one to use one's mind"
"Muslims could create a secular understanding of Islam, but we demonize and reject this without thinking"
MEMRI - Middle East Research Institute 03.09.2022
Dr. Assem Hefny, an Islamic studies professor at the University of Münster, Germany said in on Sky News Arabia (UAE) that "the Muslim mind in the Arab world still believes in myths.
He said that Muslims do not believe in the "notion of enlightenment [...] which encourages one to use one’s mind."
Dr. Hefny said that Muslims lack the Western experience that drove them towards progress.
He qualified that Muslim need not adopt a Western secularism, but rather could create a secular understanding of Islam, however instead, they demonize and reject it without thinking.
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