NATO-backed dictators in the Muslim world use Western opposition to Islamic revival as a cash cow mechanism to milk Western regimes for money and political backing.
Currently, one of the most notorious characters implementing this policy is Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who uses Islam as a bogeyman to gain more backing from NATO regimes.
Writing for the London-based Middle East Eye (MEE), Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law at University of Toronto, states: “Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his cultural allies among the secular elite, including Gaber Asfour, the former culture minister, are convinced that the key to Egypt’s progress lies in religious reform… That al-Azhar needs radical reform brooks no dispute. But the same can be said about every single public institution in Egypt. There is no public institution in Egypt that does not suffer from backwardness, mismanagement, corruption and dysfunction. That is the fully predictable result of a state that has abandoned any serious plans for national development for more than two generations.”
Sisi and his ilk know that projects branded as “reforming” Islam will get much support from the West and deflect attention from their glaring failures in other vital areas.
Such tactics will create blind spots for regimes like Sisi’s and his external backers.
Creating fictional threats will simply trigger unexpected disturbances that are rooted in real issues.
This will lead to widening the gap between the ruling caste and the society.
This is a recipe for disaster.
Courtesy: Middle East Eye
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