THE CHALLENGES TO BUILD THE CULTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM
Abstract
The Muslims world has a problem of accepting Human Rights in Islam, even the Islamic one. The skeptical attitude toward Human Rights in Islam are our awareness, knowledge and implementation in our life. There are many violations of Human Rights, which remain spread in all over the world until now. There are violations of Human Rights in all the countries in this universe. It is not possible to find a country, which free from this violation. It is very terrible, such as the professional killing and systematic murder. It will cause to grow the culture of dead. This culture does not respect on the human life.
In front of the violations of human rights, all the people must respect the value of human person. With this reason, the promotion and protection of human rights for justice must be a priority program to build the culture of human rights in our country. The promotion and protection of human rights are considered as an obligation to promote, to protect and to observe the human value, which is the dignity of human person to create the real culture of human rights.
In these situations we have obligations to build the culture of human rights in Islam. We must promote and to protect the value of human persons and their fundamental rights in Islamic perspectives. In the Islamic teachings, the human rights, justice and peace are inherent rights in our dignity as human person.
Islam is the unique religion in this world, which has the official teaching of human rights. Beside the Qur’an and Hadits, since the prophet Muhammad, with the Declaration of Medina, Hudaibiyah Treaty, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (of 1981), until the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (of 1991), Islam always promote the human rights and would like to build the culture of human rights in all over the world. The culture of Human Rights can be built, if the culture of life has been respected, and the people, especially the organ of the government takes care and respect to Human Rights and promote them as well as possible. So the human life will grows to the directions of the welfare for the people and more civilized. If the people develop the culture of Human Rights, the human civilizations will grow for respect them. We have task to develop the culture of Human Rights.