What exactly are the media for? They are for perpetuating the idea that opinions matter. Some knowledgeable people define opinion in this sense as a sense of certainty arrived at without knowledge. Thus it is by definition ignorance itself, but with the added and very dangerous element of an unjustified feeling of certainty. What might be of benefit to us at this juncture in our history is knowledge. However, we are tied to a thesis that is anti-knowledge, that postulates that postulating by itself and then arguing the advantages of various postulates may be sufficient. The media keep that alive, as much with experts, who are simply full of opinions, as with the face in the street.
A meta-opinion
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03 View more posts