The Islamic world is evolving

14/01/15

Muslim realities cyclically host repetitive historical moments, which are now an integral part of those cultures. The Parisian events, preceded by those in London and most likely destined to repeat themselves in other Western countries, represent the objective expression of a world where religion conditions the management of the state and manipulates the crowds exasperating them to the extreme.

Once again, the religious fanaticism that in many Islamic realities still predominantly conditions politics is confirmed and successful. A phenomenon, unfortunately, growing after the interventions of the West on sovereign governments which, although "dictatorial" from a Western point of view, still managed to maintain internal equilibrium and therefore to guarantee a certain stability and security also throughout the whole? surrounding area. Initiatives, however, started and carried out without preparing adequate political solutions for the ?? after ?? identified through careful analysis and strategic planning.

An action by the West that focused on some Muslim countries while excluding others. A Ben Ali ruled in Tunisia in a way not too different from that of the king in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps he did it even in a less coercive way, considering that in Tunis women were allowed to drive and not all wore the veil while in Riyadh all this was and is prohibited. Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gaddafi were violently deposed, the masters of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen and Qatar still run their own dictatorships, even if some are even suspected of financing subversive groups.

The Arab spring, considered by many analysts as the panacea for all Islamic problems, has shown instead to have been one of the grossest errors of the international politics of the West that once again allowed itself the opportunity to carry on of the Islamic populations a constructive action of "Capacity Building" in the absolute respect of the traditions and local realities. It has helped to complicate, at least in some areas, situations that are already complex, accelerating the processes of political exasperation and of ancient ethnic disputes such as those between Sunnis and Shiites in Syria and Iraq.

We should not be surprised, therefore, by the self-proclamation of the Islamic Caliphate, an ISIS which, through modern communication technologies, has rapidly extended its network, obtaining the consent of many young Muslims now Western citizens but ready to sacrifice themselves for the less brothers lucky, in full respect of Koranic solidarity.

The Islamic State ?? it is consolidating in the West, precisely by relying on second- and third-generation Muslims, French citizens rather than English, Swedish or Norwegian integrated into their respective nations, but always easy prey for the Imams. Consensus is dangerously widening even in African and Arab countries in general. Formations that look favorably at the Caliphate sprout and grow in Libya, Tunisia (Ansar Al Shaaria), Nigeria with the Boko Haram, Somalia and Kenya with the Shabaabs while Al Qaeda of the Maghreb day after day in the name of the Caliphate occupies larger and larger areas in Mali.

The cancer of fundamentalism is therefore "launching its own metastasis" through the transition to independence through self-determination, however, favored by the West when, during the Arab Spring, it forgot to evaluate all the possible implications that would have been triggered in the plan. social, in cultural realities used to being managed rather than self-managing.

The same West that now looks scared at the threat but has rashly accepted to host the proliferation of illegal Islamic mosques and centers and has not monitored the flow of its Islamic citizens to Syria to enlist in ISIS. First of all the Italy that has waited only after Paris? of inscribing 20 people in the register of suspects for terrorism, when months are talking about the risk of a new fundamentalism.

Fernando Termentini