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ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS pdf

ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Book Title Islam And The Challenge Of Human Rights
Book AuthorAbdulaziz Sachedina
Total Pages265
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Islam And the Challenge of Human Rights by Abdulaziz Sachedina

ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The human rights revolution, prompted by the devastating effects of fascism and inaugurated by the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War II, represented, then and now, a challenge not only to the international political and legal order but also to many philosophical and theological assumptions.

The idea, clearly espoused in the declaration, that “all peoples and all nations” and “every individual and every organ of society’’ would be held morally and legally accountable to a set of “fundamental rights and freedoms,”

“Without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion [or] national or social origin,” bore radical implications.

Just as governments might no longer treat their citizens in anyway, they saw lit, so, according to a subsequent covenant, any pronouncement in the name of one or another religion, philosophy, or ideology that “constitutes incitement” to acts of discrimination or violence, understood as violations of said rights and freedoms, “shall be prohibited by law.”

As such, the subject of human rights has been the source of continuing disagreement and debate among religious and nonreligious advocates of one kind or another.

One reason is because the fundamental rights and freedoms enumerated in the Universal Declaration and its progeny constrain action on grounds that need not depend for their authority on “comprehensive doctrines,” religious or otherwise.

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