by MEMRI
"Why should we be held captive by impotent equations, like the equation of takfir vs. Westernization?"
Saudi Prince Khalid Al-Faisal said,
in an Al-Arabiya TV interview, that "there are no longer conspiracies that
are concocted in secret," because "global policies are out in the
open." Prince Al-Faisal, who chairs the Beirut-based Arab Thought
Foundation, an NGO dedicated to promoting Arab cultural solidarity and
progress, said that a new path, based on moderation, was necessary in order to
counter the "impotent equations" of takfir vs. Westernization and
extremism vs. moral decay. The interview aired on December 18.
Khalid
Al-Faisal: "Why
should we be held captive by impotent equations, like the equation of takfir vs. Westernization?"
Interviewer:
"Authenticity vs.
modernity, takfir vs. Westernization,
and extremism vs. moral decay..."
Khalid
Al-Faisal: "Why
must we be either one or the other? Who makes us?"
Interviewer:
"But
there is no alternative."
Khalid
Al-Faisal: "Yes, there is. We make the alternative. That is
why I talked about the need for an alternative, the need for a new path. We
must present a new path. This new thought, this new path, must be based on
moderation. This new thought, this new path, must be based on moderation.
[...]
"A conspiracy is something that is concocted
clandestinely and nobody knows about it. These days, nothing is being concocted
in clandestinely. These days, global policies are out in the open. They are
studied in research centers, and presented to the leaders.
[...]
"So there are no longer conspiracies that are
concocted clandestinely. People always know what is being done to them.
[...]
"There
are no longer conspiracies in the proper sense of the word. Undoubtedly though,
all the countries base their policies on their interests."
MEMRI
Source: https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-prince-khalid-al-faisal-we-need-new-path-based-moderation-there-are-no-longer-conspiracies
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