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Civil society and Democratization in the Arab World
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Even if Islam is the Answer, Arab Muslims are the Problem
In May 2008, the Arab nation experienced a number of fires, or rather, armed conflicts—iekšā
Libāna, Irāka, Palestīna, Yemen, and Somalia. In these conflicts,
the warring parties used Islam as the instrument for mobilization
and amassing support. Collectively, Muslims are
waging war against Muslims.
After some Muslims raised the slogan of “Islam is the solution,”
to
became apparent “their Islam is the problem.” No sooner have some of them acquired weapons,
than they raised it against the state and its ruling regime regardless of
whether that regime was ruling in the name of Islam or not.
We have
seen this in recent years between the followers of Osama bin Laden
and the Al-Qaeda organization on the one hand, and the authorities in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the other. We have also seen an
explosive example of this phenomenon in Morocco, whose king rules in the name of Islam and
whose title is the ‘Prince of the Faithful.’ Thus each Muslim faction kills other Muslims in the
name of Islam.
A quick glance at the contents of the media confirms how the
term Islam and its associated symbols have become mere tools in the hands of these Muslims.
Prominent examples of these Islam-exploiting factions are:
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and Jamiat al-Islamiyya, in Egypt
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement, in Palestine Hezbollah, Fatah al-Islam,
and Jamiat al-Islammiyya, in Lebanon The Houthi Zayadi rebels and the Islamic Reform Grouping
(Islah), inYemen The Islamic courts, in Somalia The Islamic Front ,
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