The Conflict Between Islam and Modernity

Many within the Muslim community have long taken issue with the international organisation Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The declaration, these critics attest, was created by colonial powers with a history of gross human-rights violations, and amounts to one more attempt by some Western players to impose their will upon Muslim countries. Islamic conservatives and fundamentalists go further, as they declare that no human invention can equal — much less supersede — jurisprudence, which amounts to the word of God.