ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD: A NIGERIAN MUSLIM EXPERIENCE (Ideologi Islam Dalam Dunia Globalisasi: Pengalaman Muslim Nigeria)
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The world has become a global village and resulted into unavoidable intermingling of habitat of different societies with diverse culture and religious backgrounds. This has been identified to be the major cause of global unrest. The main thrust of this study, therefore, is to look into the effects of globalization on Nigerian Muslims. Methodologies used in this study are sociological and moral approaches. The study found out that the sources of Islamic teachings are divine in nature, while that of globalization are not. The study also revealed that the distinctive approach of Islamic ideology is that its instructions are aimed at the general welfare of the whole world, while the proponents of globalization want to re-create a world idea on everything tailored towards their ideology and conception of what a unified world should be. The study blamed the existing moral decadence and social misconduct among the Nigerian Muslims on unguarded consumption of programs through global information and communication technologies. Some elements of globalization such as telecommunications system, entertainment through the mass media, internet, satellite, and computer, among others, are examined and revealed that they portend great danger to the continuous serenity of Nigerian Muslims. The study, therefore, recommended moderation and education on the part of the Muslims to be able to distinguish between the good and bad ideologies from the preaching of globalization and also calls on the government to censor and regulate national systems of communication in order to curb the negative effects of globalization on Nigerian citizens.
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Dunia telah menjadi sebuah perkampungan global dan menyebabkan percampuran yang tidak dapat dielakkan dalam kehidupan masyarakat yang berbeza budaya dan latar belakang agama. Ini telah dikenal pasti sebagai punca utama pergolakan global. Oleh yang demikian, teras utama kajian ini, untuk melihat kesan-kesan globalisasi terhadap Muslim di Nigeria. Kaedah yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah pendekatan sosiologi dan moral. Kajian ini mendapati bahawa sumber-sumber ajaran Islam adalah untuk kesejahteraan alam. Manakala globalisasi tidak. Kajian ini juga menunjukkan bahawa pendekatan Islam bertujuan untuk kebajikan umum seluruh dunia, manakala penyokong globalisasi mahu mewujudkan idea baru dunia yang segala-galanya disesuaikan dengan ideologi dan konsep mereka. Kajian ini telah mengutuk keruntuhan moral dan salah laku sosial di kalangan umat Islam di Nigeria melalui teknologi maklumat global dan teknologi komunikasi. Beberapa elemen globalisasi seperti sistem telekomunikasi, hiburan media massa, Internet, satelit, dan komputer, antara lain, akan diteliti dan mendedahkan bahawa mereka meramal bahaya besar kepada keharmonian berterusan Muslim di Nigeria. Oleh itu, kajian ini mengesyorkan pendekatan kesederhanaan dan pendidikan di pihak umat Islam supaya dapat membezakan antara ideologi-ideologi yang baik dan buruk daripada dakyah globalisasi dan juga menyeru kepada kerajaan untuk menapis dan mengawal sistem komunikasi kebangsaan untuk membendung kesan negatif globalisasi ke atas rakyat Nigeria.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JH-2013-0501-08
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