Muslim Manipulation

In the following essay, I will be displaying and organizing accounts of Islamic manipulation, extortion, and interpretation and how it effected the order and events of the Middle East and it’s people. Also, it will show numerous accounts of Arab dictators contaminating Islam for numerous reasons.

The first account I will be informing you of, is based around Islamic-Jewish relations.

Up till the early 1940’s anti-Semitism was not as present in the Middle East as it was in Europe. Un-like in the Christian religion, where the Jews killed the alleged son of god, the Islamic religion has no reason to be hostile towards the Jewish religion and it’s followers. In fact it was Muhammad who murdered Jews. As a result of that, anti-Semitism did not develop in the Arab world as it had in Europe. In the east, there were no fears of a Jewish uprising or conspiracy.

Islamic traditionalists saw that the Jews were bringing western ideas and culture to the east. They were scared of modernization and thought it would relinquish their rule over the Arab masses. Muslim traditionalist teacher Rashid Rida stated: “… They [i.e. the Jews] have also spread here their customs and usages that are opposed to our religion and to our whole way of life. Above all, our youth is being morally shattered. The Jewish girls who run around in shorts demoralize our youth by their mere presence.”

This newly found Islamic ant-Semitism was nurtured by the Nazis. With the help of Islamic leaders, the Nazis set up an anti-Semitic radio station called Radio Zeesen. Zeesen broadcasted Nazi propaganda all over the Middle East.

This alliance of traditional Islamic teachers and the Nazis furthered the idea of anti-Semitism. In fact, the Nazis (again with the help of Islamic teachers) distributed a 32 page propaganda filled pamphlet.

In a short passage from the pamphlet: “The struggle between the Jews and Islam began when Muhammed fled from Mecca to Medina… The Jewish methods were, even in those days, the same as now. As always, their weapon was slander… They said that Muhammed was a swindler… they began to ask Muhammed senseless and insoluble questions… and they endeavored to destroy the Muslims… If the Jews could betray Muhammed in this way, how will they betray Muslims today? The verses from the Koran and Hadith prove to you that the Jews were the fiercest opponents of Islam and are still trying to destroy it.”

To sum up: Islamic leaders who were scared of modernization that the Jewish community brought, along with the Nazis who just wanted to exterminate the Jews, bent and misinterpreted Islamic teachings to the whole Arab world.

The second account I will display to you, involves the Lebanese civil war.

To shorten this, since I’m sure you already have a background of the Lebanese civil war if you had read my previous essay, “Lebanon- The Black Sheep Of The East’ in which I explained the differences between Lebanon and other Arab nations, here is a passage from it: “It is through Arab dictators that Lebanon is how it is today though.

Nations such as Syria and Egypt saw how much Lebanon was succeeding through it's western styled economy and government.

Those nations under tyrannical command were scared of possible uprisings that could take place in their own state. What if their population saw another middle-eastern country living lavishly even with hundreds of ethnicities, while they were in slums?

Countries like Syria and Egypt incited an Islamic uprising in Lebanon. Syria and Egypt used religious propaganda with the help of radical Islamic institutes to spread the ideas of ultra-conservative Islam to Muslims in Lebanon.

The governments of those countries also used the thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to incite a civil war. It is well known that during the civil war Syria and Egypt created puppet PLO factions to attack Lebanese and Israeli forces without actually officially getting involved.

Because certain nation's governments were scared of their citizens finding out they are being suppressed they went through the great lengths of destroying a succeeding, prosperous country.
Lebanon could have changed the world if it wasn't for the dictators scared of freedom.”

As you can clearly see, it was through lies the Arab dictators broadcasted across the Arab world, using Islam as a median to move the masses to support the war, which has cause the destruction of a country.

The following is of another account of Islamic fundamentalists manipulating the Islamic masses as aided by Arab dictators. It is also the most current and relevant of the entire essay.

Anti-Americanism is an idea widely supported by Islamic fundamentalists all around the Middle East and is supported by numerous Arab dictators. Again, as it was shown in the Lebanese civil war, Arab dictators are terrified of modernization of local states.

When the U.S, during the first gulf war, invaded and occupied, parts of the Middle East, new ideas and new material items were spread throughout the occupied territory.

Arab dictators, scared of their own population seeing that life can be better in some material ways launched an anti-American campaign.

To spread the idea of anti-Americanism, Arab dictators used the only thing they knew that could move the Arab masses. Islam. With the help of radical Muslim fundamentalist groups like al-Qaeda, they quickly spread the propaganda.

To sum up entirely the point I am trying to convey is that, many tyrannical Arab rulers are suppressing their entire population and extorting Islam to get the masses behind them so that they may have further their power.

Islam itself, in its pure form, is not how it is displayed today. Power hungry villains who vicariously use Islam as a means of propaganda have contaminated it with messages of hate.