TESOL in a Time of Terror: Toward an Islamic Perspective on Applied Linguistics

What distinguishes MT education in Western countries from MT education in African countries, for instance, is that for the latter it is an education with a difference: It is enabling rather than disabling, empowering rather than disempowering. That is, it should ensure its consumers upward social mobility; it should allow them access to employment and to economic resources and facilitate their participation in the social and political development of the state. Applied linguists in non-Western communities have a professional responsibility to promote rather than undermine MT education if we are to ensure the survival of local