http://afpakwar.com/blog/archives/35?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-islam-bad-islam Global Perspectives on the "Af/Pak" War Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://afpakwar.com/blog/archives/35/comment-page-1#comment-395 The Aetiology of American Islamophobia | America at War Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:48:13 +0000 http://afpakwar.com/blog/?p=35#comment-395 [...] This popular anti-Muslim racism acquired intellectual respectability during the 1990s. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 both altered the balance of power in the Middle East and threatened the future of the military-industrial-financial complex in America. A Christian-Zionists alliance, aided by Israeli intelligence, re-cast the Palestinian uprising (intifada) against brutality and occupation, as Muslim terrorism against democratic Israel. Further, tapping into an abiding American phobia, an ‘–ism’ was added to Islam, to create ‘Islamism’ as the new Communism. While the manufacture of Islamism fulfilled a vital need of Christian soldiers and statesmen for a new enemy, to fit the role Islam itself had to be re-imagined. By the end of the 1990s, a good Islam (a faith–not unlike modern Protestansim) had been separated from a bad Islam (an ideology—at once political and militant) [see here]. [...] [...] This popular anti-Muslim racism acquired intellectual respectability during the 1990s. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 both altered the balance of power in the Middle East and threatened the future of the military-industrial-financial complex in America. A Christian-Zionists alliance, aided by Israeli intelligence, re-cast the Palestinian uprising (intifada) against brutality and occupation, as Muslim terrorism against democratic Israel. Further, tapping into an abiding American phobia, an ‘–ism’ was added to Islam, to create ‘Islamism’ as the new Communism. While the manufacture of Islamism fulfilled a vital need of Christian soldiers and statesmen for a new enemy, to fit the role Islam itself had to be re-imagined. By the end of the 1990s, a good Islam (a faith–not unlike modern Protestansim) had been separated from a bad Islam (an ideology—at once political and militant) [see here]. [...]

]]> http://afpakwar.com/blog/archives/35/comment-page-1#comment-27 Arshad Zaman Sat, 30 May 2009 12:32:41 +0000 http://afpakwar.com/blog/?p=35#comment-27 Thank you, Manawar. I am glad we agree. Thank you, Manawar. I am glad we agree.

]]> http://afpakwar.com/blog/archives/35/comment-page-1#comment-25 manawar Fri, 29 May 2009 15:46:32 +0000 http://afpakwar.com/blog/?p=35#comment-25 A well researched article which nails the core issues!! To understand Islam and its ideology one must approach with an open mind that Islam and its ideology are integral and inseparable!! Manawar A well researched article which nails the core issues!! To understand Islam and its ideology one must approach with an open mind that Islam and its ideology are integral and inseparable!! Manawar

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