Just an observation. When I went to college as a political science/philosophy major (before I converted), the Muslims I was friends with then were all studying STEM fields. Likewise, after I converted most Muslims I met were all working in STEM fields. Why does there seem to be so few Muslim youth partaking in social sciences like poli sci, economics, or sociology, or humanities like philosophy or literary criticism? The reason why I ask is because there is so much discussion in Western-based Muslim circles about the issues facing Western politics and culture yet there are very few who are willing to get involved to make any kind of change. You see other Muslims talk about how there is an infinite amount of wisdom in Islam which can fix the world if applied, yet there are almost no well-known Muslim sociologists who would be willing to write sociological textbooks from an Islamic perspective that would reach a non-Muslim audience. Likewise, there is so much talk about Islamophobia in mass media or how contemporary Western culture goes against Muslim values, yet there are so few Muslim scholars in mainstream literary criticism (the irony being, the postcolonial theorists who have written the most on orientalist views of the Islamic World are non-Muslims). Why does this the case, and do you think having more Muslims engaging in those fields would better the status of Muslims in the West overall?
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