Simptom sukoba civilizacija? Rushdie afera u kontekstu rasprave o islamu i ideji univerzalnih ljudskih prava
A Symptom of the Clash of Civilizations? The Rushdie Affair in the Context of the Discussion about Islam and the Idea of Universal Human Rights

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary debate about Islam and universal human rights is the subject of both academic and public circles. It is an especially complex issue that includes several different, but in this case interwoven areas of theology, political theory, philosophy, linguistics, hermeneutics and intellectual history. In addition to the fact that the discussion requires diving into different areas, it has given rise to multiple discourses within the liberal and Islamic moral tradition that give us numerous but often contradictory answers. Through the contextualization of the Salman Rushdie affair, the article critically reviews the dominant discourse in the liberal moral tradition, which the author calls incompatibility, and in which the discussion of Islam and human rights takes place in the context of the clash of civilizations. In that discourse, a narrative is adopted in which Islam is treated as a monolithic concept that is fundamentally incompatible with the modern idea of universal human rights. The author points out that such monologic discourse is unproductive and argues that under the burden of the narrative of the clash of civilizations, the discourse of human rights falls into the background.

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