Islam rejects oppressive globalisation, says scholar

PUTRAJAYA: Globalisation or any other system that is oppressive or imposes the will of one on another will never be acceptable to Islam, a world-renown scholar said. 

Admitting, however, that he was not very knowledgeable about the mechanisms of globalisation, Dr Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the Sheikh of the Al-Azhar University, said only a system rooted in equality could be acceptable to Islam.