{"id":135570,"date":"2025-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/archives\/135570"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:00:00","slug":"the-union-organizes-a-lecture-in-istanbul-on-the-challenges-of-globalization-and-its-serious-impact-on-the-western-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/archives\/135570","title":{"rendered":"The Union Organizes a Lecture in Istanbul on the Challenges of Globalization and Its Serious Impact on the Western Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000\">The Union Organizes a Lecture in Istanbul on the Challenges of<br \/>\nGlobalization and Its Serious Impact on the Western Family<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nInternational Union of Muslim Scholars, in coordination between the Family<br \/>\nCommittee and the Youth Committee, and in cooperation with the Arabic Language<br \/>\nInstitute at Al-Sharif Endowment in Istanbul, organized a distinguished lecture<br \/>\naddressing the &#8220;Challenges of Globalization Facing the Family in the<br \/>\nWest,&#8221; held on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nlecture was delivered by Dr. Kamelia Hilmi Toulon, Chairwoman of the Union\u2019s<br \/>\nFamily Committee, targeting a group of male and female students from France as<br \/>\npart of an educational program offered by Al-Sharif Endowment for students of<br \/>\nknowledge from Western countries.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nlecture focused on the most prominent risks confronting the family in Western<br \/>\nsocieties, such as the spread of uncontrolled freedoms in relationships and the<br \/>\ndecline in the importance of legitimate (lawful) relationships. This, in turn,<br \/>\nplaces a heavy burden on parents to preserve family values and protect their<br \/>\nchildren from being influenced by prevailing moral and educational problems.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nlecture also addressed a controversial international treaty, the &#8220;Istanbul<br \/>\nConvention,&#8221; issued by the Council of Europe in 2011. The treaty enforces<br \/>\nabsolute equality between men and women in family and social roles, which<br \/>\ncontradicts human nature based on diversity and complementarity between the<br \/>\nsexes. Additionally, the lecture highlighted the recognition of the full<br \/>\nequality of LGBTQ+ rights, which has contributed to the spread of phenomena<br \/>\ncontrary to family values in the West.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nlecture emphasized the necessity for the family to restore its educational role<br \/>\nand to raise societal awareness about the dangers posed by such international<br \/>\nagreements that threaten family values and ethics.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The<br \/>\nsession concluded with an open discussion focusing on the family\u2019s role in<br \/>\nprotecting children, during which a set of proposals was reached to suit<br \/>\nWestern societies in preserving the family unit and strengthening its bonds.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">(Source:<br \/>\nThe Union)<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:\n150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-ansi-language:IN\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:\n150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-ansi-language:IN\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:\n150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000;mso-ansi-language:IN\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639<br \/>\n\u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:IN\">\u060c \u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<b><span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=39892\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span><\/b>).<\/span><span lang=\"IN\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:IN\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Organizes a Lecture in Istanbul on the Challenges of Globalization and Its Serious Impact on the Western Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[916],"class_list":["post-135570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-activities-en","tag-committees-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}