The distinctive Islamic injunction is to forbid the bad and demand the good. The modern confusion through which the world is going right now usually prompts people to ask who'll decide bad and good. The assumption is that there is no legitimate universal authority to do that. A flat denial of God-whether people realize it or not.
So the current mid set assumes that whatever is happening next door is none of my business. There is even an acronym for that NOYFB-None of Your Four-starring Business. If your neighbour is pushing gay attitudes then it is not your business. If US is messing in any number of countries it is none of your business. If man and woman are living together then it it is none of your business. (And then strangely Courts step in when the women in such cases demands rights similar to a lawfully wedded wife.)
God Almighty might some time nudge us out of our slumber. The Arab Spring had peculiar effects. The current establishment had nightmares a few months back when Anna Hazare movement, even if precariously, presented a possibility of turning into Indian Spring. Indian public has sort of become immune to corruption. Thanks to Indira Gandhi who long back asserted that corruption is a global phenomena. (In all honesty she perhaps did not know what calamity she was bringing upon us.) But the corruption cases that started tumbling out of the cupboards pot Commonwealth Games stunned the immune-to-corruption-around-you public. And Indian Spring (or Summer) was not such a far fetched curiosity.
Same is the case of US now. While the US Government was very busy solving the world problems the public there realized that they also have problems of their own that can not be blamed on fictitious Al Qaida and real Hugo Chavez or Iran or China. So began the Occupy Wall Street movement since September 17 and still continuing and have reached the peak. It is a protest :
So the current mid set assumes that whatever is happening next door is none of my business. There is even an acronym for that NOYFB-None of Your Four-starring Business. If your neighbour is pushing gay attitudes then it is not your business. If US is messing in any number of countries it is none of your business. If man and woman are living together then it it is none of your business. (And then strangely Courts step in when the women in such cases demands rights similar to a lawfully wedded wife.)
God Almighty might some time nudge us out of our slumber. The Arab Spring had peculiar effects. The current establishment had nightmares a few months back when Anna Hazare movement, even if precariously, presented a possibility of turning into Indian Spring. Indian public has sort of become immune to corruption. Thanks to Indira Gandhi who long back asserted that corruption is a global phenomena. (In all honesty she perhaps did not know what calamity she was bringing upon us.) But the corruption cases that started tumbling out of the cupboards pot Commonwealth Games stunned the immune-to-corruption-around-you public. And Indian Spring (or Summer) was not such a far fetched curiosity.
Same is the case of US now. While the US Government was very busy solving the world problems the public there realized that they also have problems of their own that can not be blamed on fictitious Al Qaida and real Hugo Chavez or Iran or China. So began the Occupy Wall Street movement since September 17 and still continuing and have reached the peak. It is a protest :
against corporate greed, politics, and inequality.
This is a strange thing to know from a country known for pushing democracy down every body else's throat.