Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

[@nmkzf]

US, Britain and Israel who are key users of "Islam" in their hegemony was not addressed, despite their obvious role in the post 1979 Islamic world.

[@abbasgondal6691]

why have u excluded south Asia and south east asia from report

[@musammatbadrunnesha831]

To develop such a report, you could look at Bangladesh too.

[@mohamedhamza456]

Wahhabism is the first arabian religious political military reformist movement in modern history. It rose in the early 18th century as an opposition to both the Achaari statecraft Islam of the Ottomans and the Jaafari Shia statecraft Islam of the turkic dynasties of Persia. Its political aim was to get the power over Islam back to Arabs, after loosing it to the turks since the 11th century.

[@tefaruque]

Whhabism is a sick and rejectionist interpretation of Islam

[@zeppelin1qaz]

Who finances Brookings?

[@AbdulKhader-786]

Philanthropists

[@crk123ful]

Qatar. look around 18:00 of the video in this link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-rp6poqNd-o80

[@ShehuStebe]

The CIA and the State Department

[@krishnanunnimadathil8142]

It does seem that Islam is an ideology on the same lines as Communism. The only difference being one is based on a belief in God, and the other is based on a non-belief in God. If you observe the arguments made for or against either Islam or Communism as an organising force of politics and society at a hoi-polloi level, this is essentially it. Some of the comments below too betray that - Islam is the word of Allah for all humanity, and all the rest of it, or that Communism is the right word based on scientific (by which they mean non-theistic) reasoning. Arthur Huxley made a correct observation in a lecture in the 1940s that the monotheisms and Communism are all branches of the same tree, or something to that effect. He categorised Communism as a Christian heresy; it would have been more fair to call it a monotheistic heresy, for it derives from the same roots as all monotheisms. Nationalism was tried in the Middle East, and it worked for much of the Arab World, but the US in all its wisdom destroyed it and banned it - it was called Baathism. And the US is hard at work trying to destroy the last remnant of Arab non-religious nationalism in the entire Middle East - Syria. Genius! It is hard to classify exactly when the Arab nationalism of Nasser and Saddam just descends into Arab fascism (with negative consequences for Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians etc), but the truth is for much of the heyday of Arab nationalism, it was not religiously motivated. Organised monotheistic religion as an organising force generally tends to fill in a void when one occurs in society, often in the absence of a proper state structure or social mechanisms. It is crucial to not put religion, especially Islam, on a pedestal when analysing the Middle East, for it just one of the several forces competing to be the main template of social organisation here. Other forces include communism, linguistic nationalism, ethnic nationalism etc. And, like any force, it feeds off of the general economic activity of the population for its own ends. So, to say that the oil bounty of the Middle East has had nothing to do with the preaching activity would be categorically false. Circumstantial evidence would easily link all preacher activity directly or indirectly to one or other state agency of the countries of the Middle East. As the origin of most of the world's monotheisms, Middle Eastern societies are sadly condemned to never-ending god wars, in the absence of alternate systems for social organisation. The Middle East is important today because of commodities, in fact only one, oil. Europe, which historically was vested in the Eastern trade, has found its partner in North and South America. India and lands further east were for the most part self-contained and not externally reliant. The Middle East, at the crossroads between East and the West, grew in importance because of their location. Indeed, one may argue that the religions of the place benefited from the location of the societies in which it formed, capitalising on the caravan routes as and when they liked. The failure of most Middle Eastern societies to be stable beyond minor gaps of time will mark them out for downfall, once either a substitute for or an alternate source of oil is found. The rest of the world is not vested in the Middle East beyond oil.

[@makeitlucid]

Islam as statecraft. I *almost* can’t believe I’m watching this.

[@PluetoeInc.]

why are you so triggered little one , cannot accept the fact that your ancestors got bent by arabs ?

[@neilwilliams2883]

Wow so this is the state of today’s academics... that woman hasn’t a clue and it’s this sort of misguided arrogance of knowledge that is part of the problem

[@nmkzf]

Sayed Sistani is an Iranian Citizen.

[@charlespatterson8412]

You are just another 'box inside a Box.' "Easily managed..." *You* are *not* Adults. Here, have some more Candy!

[@ria6821]

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