Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Powers of Manipulation: Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Middle East

Click here to access article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya from Empire Strikes Back. 
As Washington and its cohorts march towards the Eurasian Heartland, they have tried to manipulate Islam as a geo-political tool. They have created political and social chaos in the process. Along the way they have tried to redefine Islam and to subordinate it to the interests of global capital by ushering in a new generation of so-called Islamists, chiefly amongst the Arabs.
The author provides a good explanation of the general strategy that the political operatives of the Empire are using to control that area of the world. But, can they contain the newly aroused democratic aspirations of the people?