A universal system needs to be objective and equally applied to all people regardless of their social status, race, color, and religion.
The principle of equality in dealing with peoples of different colors, socioeconomic status and cultures is absent from the dominant ideologies of today's world. The Indian society has suffered from a rigidly applied caste system for many centuries: some people are looked at as gods (avatars) while others are being treated as no more than slaves.
Although Christianity has seldom been applied as a system for living, it contains, among its contemporary teachings doctrines that can be viewed as discriminatory. The teachings of the Talmud (the basis of contemporary Judaism) looks at the Jews as privileged over other people (the gentiles). The list could be expanded to include the communist slogan of equality all people are equal, but which, in reality, means that some are more equal than others. Capitalism, as applied in several Western societies, IS not geared theoretically to establishing equality, since it encourages a rich vs. poor division. Socialism, which in theory is supposed to ameliorate the excesses of capitalism and communism, has in actuality highlighted the indigenous faults of both of these economic systems. At the same time, it could not prove itself as a more appropriate alternative. Thus, of all the existing ideological systems, Islam remains the only option that appeals to all because it respects the rights of all people and regards all humans as members of one nation living under God (Allah), in peace and harmony in spite of their many differences.
The principle of equality in dealing with peoples of different colors, socioeconomic status and cultures is absent from the dominant ideologies of today's world. The Indian society has suffered from a rigidly applied caste system for many centuries: some people are looked at as gods (avatars) while others are being treated as no more than slaves.
Although Christianity has seldom been applied as a system for living, it contains, among its contemporary teachings doctrines that can be viewed as discriminatory. The teachings of the Talmud (the basis of contemporary Judaism) looks at the Jews as privileged over other people (the gentiles). The list could be expanded to include the communist slogan of equality all people are equal, but which, in reality, means that some are more equal than others. Capitalism, as applied in several Western societies, IS not geared theoretically to establishing equality, since it encourages a rich vs. poor division. Socialism, which in theory is supposed to ameliorate the excesses of capitalism and communism, has in actuality highlighted the indigenous faults of both of these economic systems. At the same time, it could not prove itself as a more appropriate alternative. Thus, of all the existing ideological systems, Islam remains the only option that appeals to all because it respects the rights of all people and regards all humans as members of one nation living under God (Allah), in peace and harmony in spite of their many differences.
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