The awakening of Muslim to get involved in the science sector has been increasing though many have blamed Islam for its supposed natural opposition to science. It is common to see many inventions, which are based on the holy Quran, and it reveals the relationship of science and Islam. It is the famous nuclear scientist of Pakistan, Pervez Hoodbhoy who introduced the course which reveals the specific subjects about world affairs and science based on Islam and Quran

The false impression of the widespread backwardness of Islam is simply dispelled. It is proven that science was flourishing in Muslim countries from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, when Europe was going through dark ages. Learning was made easy, thanks to The Abbasi caliphs, which had no doubt in spending millions for learning purposes. Therefore, this is the proof that Islam and science have been compatible; additionally Islam was even able to stimulate innovative scientific advances.

The most important thing is that many world leaders have realized the economic value  of scientific research as there are so many accomplished researches during the past decade. These activities have begun splurging for that reason. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia has alocated more than twenty billion dollars for endowment since 2009 for doing several researches. The amount was much higher than those famous American universities have spent for conducting scientific researches.

Scientific discipline along with technology-related studies, on their clean-cut pragmatic advantages, act fullest. Technology commands, on farming scientific disciplines shortly in arrears. The practice of medicine along with chemical science is common, as well. The scientific discipline is still cutting across the areas richest split up. At the beginning of the millennium, SESAME, a multinational physical science research laboratory on the Middle East, first particle accelerator, was arranged up in Jordan. It is patterned upon particle-physics laboratory in Europe, CERN that was made to draw together men of science by wartime oppositions.

Yet, the obstacle is not unbeatable. Lots of Muslim biologists have successfully managed in reconciling both their work and faith together. A biological anthropologist, Fatimah Jackson, who has converted to Islam stated that no subject in biology that makes sense unless the light of evolution. She continued that Islam explains why science describes how things change in a broader sense.

Another biologist of Jordan, Rana Dajani also stated that The holy Quran is more than just a science textbook as it delivers several guidelines on how people live their daily lives. The interpretations of the Quran are able to evolve with almost all innovative and fresh discoveries on scientific matters. The verses of Quran that explain the process of man creation, for instance, are able to be interpreted as evolution providing support.

Unfortunately, the sort of freedom which science demands is hardly found in the world of Muslims. Along with the political Islam rise, many people doubt that it will be decreasing further , even in very highly developed countries like Egypt, but some other Muslim countries remain expectant, especially with the political conflicts which seem endless in the Middle East. Many expect that the conflicts will promote more than just democracy, yet it is able to keep the scientific freethinking survive.

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Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey is the only country that connects Europe and Asia. It is bordered by eight countries which are Greece to the west, Bulgaria to the northwest, Georgia to the northwest, Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan to the east, Syria and Iraq to the southwest. Due to the excellent location and natural resources, turkey is now considered one of the most rising Islamic countries. It is making progress in almost all fields. Turkey has world 15th largest gross domestic product (GDP) and 17th largest nominal gross domestic product. It is listed among the G-20 major economies.

The Republic of Turkey has opened its market by reducing the government control on private investment, foreign trade and privatization of public companies through the economic reforms. These policies paved a way for Turkey to make significant and excellent progress. The real rate of gross domestic product of Turkey from 2002 to 2007 is averaged more than 6.8% annually. This growth rate made Turkey one of the fastest growing countries in the world.

The Republic of Turkey is on the rise , and it is making substantial progress in various industries. The Turkish fast economic growth, in the last few years, is becoming harder to ignore. Its economy grew from 8.5% to 9% within two years. Turkey is continueing to rise , and it seems to lead the growth tables of OECD. Various Turkish firms are expanding their investments in the other countries.

TAV, a most famous and popular Turkish company, is the world’s 4th largest airport contractor. It is expanding its investment aggressively and playing a key role in booming the Turkish economy in a notable way. Turkish construction companies are operating in more than 95 countries. It is predicted by HSBC that Turkey will be the 12th largest economy spot of the world in 2050.

The Turkish industry is gradually expanding overseas. The Turkish foreign investments are almost reaching all corners of the continents. According to the report of 2011, it is estimated that the Turkish trade volume with the Saharan Africa has gone to $7.5 billion in 2011, and it was just $750 million in 2000. A major contracting company of Turkey named Kolin has started $140 million project in Uganda, and is still looking for investment opportunities in Kenya and South Africa.

Tourism industry in Turkey also is hitting a powerful levels in the last few years. It is considered an important part of the country’s economy. According to a report, more than 31 million visitors from all over the world visit this country and contribute to the revenue of Turkey with about $22 billion.

Turkey has a strong automobile industry. During the year 2012, Turkey automobile company produced more than 1072335 vehicles. This automobile industry is considered as the 16th largest vehicles producer in the world. According to a recent report, Turkey is considered the fastest growing country in the Muslim world. You cannot ignore the progress and the influence of Turkey.

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LOURDES — Leading bishops have voiced alarm at a rise in anti-Islamic sentiment in France and admitted that hardening attitudes within the Roman Catholic church are fuelling the trend.

In comments that will add to pressure on President François Hollande to respond to demands from France's large Muslim community to speak out on the issue, the Bishop of Angoulême, Claude Dagens, said he was profoundly concerned by recent developments.

"It is with much pain that I notice the emergence of a Catholic Islamophobia, in the same way that there has been a Catholic anti-semitism for centuries," Dagens told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of an assembly of French bishops here.

Dagens said his concerns had been heightened by the controversial "Muslim demographics" presentation made at the Vatican last month in which Cardinal Peter Turkson predicted that Islam would eventually become the dominant religion in Europe.

The Vatican subsequently distanced itself from a film which included a claim that France could have a majority of Muslims within four decades, but Dagens acknowledged that the episode reflected a worrying shift in attitudes. "We are living in a society where fear is seeping into every corner. That's true for Muslims but also for Catholics."

Dagens comments, echoed by a number of his colleagues here, came in the wake of a call by France's Muslim Council, the main representative body for the country's estimated five million Muslims, for the President to publicly condemn Islamophobia.

Behind the call lies resentment based on a perception that Hollande and his ministers have given greater priority to combatting a recent rise in anti-semitism than they have to defending the Muslim community in the face of a parallel trend.

Earlier this month, Hollande vowed that France would wage a relentless fight to eradicate anti-semitism from society, describing it as a "national cause."

Abdellah Zekri, one of the leaders of the Muslim Council, called for France's Islamic community to be offered similar support.

"Given the rise in the number of Islamophobic acts and anti-Muslim racism, we want a formal declaration from the President of the Republic that includes the Muslims of France in this national cause," Zekri said.

Government ministers have issued strong condemnations of high-profile anti-Islamic acts such as the desecration of mosques and pledged to do more to address the economic and social problems that afflict the country's Muslims more than the rest of the population.

But government pronouncements on the subject have almost invariably been qualified by warnings that the Islamic community must be vigilant about the development of radicalism within its ranks, which it has linked to both an emerging threat from homegrown terrorism and to the resurgence of anti-semitism.

Fears that a militant minority of young French Muslims represent a security threat have been fuelled by Islamist gunman Mohammed Merah's killing of seven people in Toulouse in March and by last month's dismantling of what the authorities described as an Islamist terrorist cell.

These episodes are seen as having hardened the attitudes of many French people towards their Muslim compatriots while exacerbating the minority community's sense of their culture and religion being under siege from the authorities and the rest of society.

Many Muslims have been angered by legislation which bans women from wearing full veils, arguing that it has led to increased hostility to any public display of their faith, while this year elections were marked by a divisive debate over the use of halal methods of animal slaughter.

AFP, 9 November 2012

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