Arguments nowadays are heating up about secularization and the matter needs to be subjected for close scrutiny.   As for globalization, an Arab thinker believes that whether we are for or against it makes no difference since it will prevail.  If we are to protest globalization, is there an alternative?  And since we have to go with the flow, why not do so and consider a smaller model — let’s call it Arabization.  In order to achieve Arabization, the following points must be defined concerning an Arab approach.

First, the matter of infrastructure: To build a telecommunication network, an Arab data base and an Arab entity up to international standards which could be the Arab Internet. In addition, communications and the management of communications of all sort must be facilitated — both technically and economically.

Culture: Creation of Arab concepts for a cultural structure taking into account Arab resources and capabilities.

We must study the factors that have compelled many Arab thinkers and scientists to go abroad and settle there.  And encourage  their sons to settle there, become citizens in those more advanced countries and to become secularized.  In terms of numbers, we may have lost only a small group but in terms of knowledge, capabilities and their impact upon — and  benefit to — society, the loss is incalculable.

Science: To establish a scientific data bank exchange network between member Arab countries, individuals, organizations and to encourage cooperative projects between Arab scientists and thinkers.

Arabization might possibly create some kind of alternative to globalization.  It might also help us in preserving our identity, rights and ability to interact with other world civilizations and economies in a better way.