2 The Meaning of Dialogue (al-hiwar) between Civilisations
When we say dialogue or clash, we mean Muslims, their deen and their civilisation on one side; and Christians and their religion and the Capitalists and their civilisation, on the other side. It is a malicious attempt that the leaders and intellectuals of the Capitalist civilisation differentiate between Islam and its followers i.e. between Islam and Muslims. So they claim that Islam is great but Muslims are backward and some of them are terrorists. They are liars in their view, for if Islam was really great in their view, then they would have embraced it. However they attempt to delude the naïve from amongst Muslims, attempting to reduce the rancour against them when they strike a Muslim people, or when they attempt to spread the concepts of their civilisation among Muslims. They know that the Islamic ‘aqeedah still remains in the souls of Muslims and it is strong in the majority of them. So if they openly declare their enmity to Islam, they will stir up Muslims and provoke them. Thus they use these deceptive sentences as a weapon to anaesthetise Muslims and to deceive them. Some Muslims would swallow this bait and accept dialogue by the meaning presented by Christians and Capitalists or promoted by their agent intellectuals. They concentrate in the definition of this dialogue upon three matters: The first is equality between religions and civilisations in the dialogue without superiority or preference of a religion or civilisation over another. The second is that the limit of the dialogue is restricted to mere knowledge of the other's opinions without addressing its refutation or invalidation. The third is creating an alternative civilisation through the method of arriving at the common denominators between the two religions and two civilisations.