Critique of Arab Scientific Culture

The greatest crime that has befallen

the Arabs is that we were deprived of the civilizational shock

that surprised us more than two centuries ago,

because we were told

that these people took civilization from us and did not

invent it themselves, and that we have enough,

and that we possess perfection, and that they do too,

and that these people do too. That is, they believe that even

building airplanes, reaching the moon,

reaching Mars, and reaching everything else

are simple processes like carpentry and blacksmithing, like

directing, and so on, as if they were simple processes.

They do not realize that this is great work,

and that they entered

the cell and understood what was inside it,

and entered the atom

and learned what was inside it. They talk about

science as if they are talking about nothing.

This illusion must

change. It must, it must. We must reconsider.

I mean, even now, we do not

possess the scientific spirit,

we do not even possess it

when...

I think, for example,

that if we reviewed those who were

awarded doctorates, for example, in

A number of our universities, their degrees

all perpetuate ignorance rather than open the door

to knowledge because they were

not based on objectivity,

but rather a justification for what exists,

a justification for an established culture,

a justification

for a way of thinking we have lived with for hundreds of years.

Is this science? This is against science.

This is why I say we must reconsider

everything. We must reconsider our culture,

our thinking,

our

education, our universities,

our media, everything that

has kept us as we are now.

We are now outside real history, and we have not

entered it except through violence. I mean, perhaps. I mean, if not.

If it were not for oil and violence,

people would not know there was something called Arabs,

but through violence and oil, they were forced to know it.

This... This... This... This is absurd. It is illogical.

I mean, we cannot remain this way. A human being must...

A human being, in their individuality.

We erase the individual's individuality

and keep them as followers.

We keep them as followers. They are not

accepted in society except to the extent of their conformity.

As similar to the others as possible.