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Westernization and Human Welfare · Maryam Jameelah

. and corrup~on are destructive of eVerything which is good, true and beautiful, and thus, everything that makes life wo~th living. We must convjnce the political and intellectual leadership· of the so-called "Third Wor~d.'· that Western civilization is

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retrogressive -not progressive and detrimental to human welfa!”e in aU its aspects-physicallYt economically politically, culturally, intellectually,

All the fQrces of contemporary civilization are destructive and negative.

Ultimately Western civili- . zation will become so overwhelmed by its own corruption and decadence that its machinery aDd institutions will be unable to continue to function. The Watergate Scanda.l (1973) has already permanently and irrever-· I sibly disgraced a Government based on secUlar

humanism showing that gross immorality prevails from the highest levels of the State.

The AbeFortas Scandal of 1969 showed that even the judges ·on the U.S. Supreme Court would not hesitate to commit· crimes and resort· to fraud whenever expediency dictated.

A federal Commission says ofticial political COITuptioa ia “.

serious impediment to· the task of reclucing cr.imiaaIity. iD·

America” . In the last of six reports, the National ActviIory

CoJDlllission on Criminal Justice, Standardl and Goak aaid : “The existence of corruption breeds Nrther crime by providing for the American citizen a model of ofBciallawltasnell

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Jameelah, Maryam. “. and corrup~on are destructive of eVerything which is good, true and beautiful, and thus, everything that makes life wo~th living. We must convjnce the political and intellectual leadership· of the so-called "Third Wor~d.'· that Western civilization is.” In Westernization and Human Welfare (1976). Scan: archive.org, https://archive.org/download/al-islam-maryam-jameelah/English_WESTERNIZATION_AND_HUMAN_WELFARE.pdf. Online text: Islamic Internet Archives, https://islamicarchives.org/works/mj-westernization-and-human-welfare/and-corrup-on-are-destructive-of-everything/

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