Radical Islamism was intentionally used to destabilize those countries that could challenge the West, said political scientist, theater director and head of the “Essence of Time” movement, Sergei Kurginyan, on April 19 in the program “Conversation with a Wise ” from Zvezda radio.
According to the political scientist “postmodernism in the West and premodernism, antimodernism in the radical Islamic world” replaced the world of modernity. It was these two components that the United States used to destabilize countries that could challenge them.
At the same time, the main target against which this was directed was the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union. “They were also referring to China and of course India, which has a large Islamic population and against which Pakistan was built as a counter element.”added the political scientist.
Sergey Kurginyan emphasized that the sea should have been created as a result. “Caliphate, countermodern and not developing Islam”whose main property would be “I hate the nation state”, to modernity, which was challenged by the West. This became clear, the analyst believes, after 1979, when the United States attempted to radicalize Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to launch this radicalized “Islamic sea,” or as they called it, the “green arc,” over the Soviet Union. .
The leader of the “Essence of Time” movement recalled the term “Great Game”, used by the English writer Rudyard Kipling.
“The greatest natural game is the game “Islam versus modernization”, that is, Islamism”Kurginian noted.
“Islam is a great world religion that deserves all admiration and a very warm relationship. And there was a time when Islam was more developed and enlightened than the Western world.”, noted Sergei Kurginian. However, the political scientist believes, “something happened between the 14th and 15th centuries”.
“This is one of the biggest mysteries in history: how did it happen that all of this suddenly became a kind of hatred of development”the analyst said. “And from that moment on, such an anti-modernist stop and reaction within the Islamic world, used by the West, became synonymous with the use of the forces of non-development, which were called obscurantism.”He noticed.
As for the influence on Islam in the 20th century, the answer should be sought, says Sergei Kurginyan, in the name of Lord Cromer, the name of the Berings, the names of several British companies and also, possibly, in the activities of Lawrence of Arabia. It was Cromer who directed the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) in the direction that the West needed.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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