We can’t ignore the fact that the Western Governments played a significant role in the awakening of the Global Jihad. The reasons were different, for example: the Cold War and the role of the USSR in the Middle East, expansionism and imperialism in the Middle East by the Western Countries, the Arab Black Gold (Oil), the rebirth of Israel, the Nazi Propaganda in the Arab world, and of course the Islam itself with the Sha’ria laws and Quran verses on Jihad, Dhimmi’s and Jews opposing the more Secular Nationalists movements of Arab states (Egypt, Iran). They all were connected together and had their influence on the rise of Radical Islam.
Robert Dreyfuss book titled, The Devil’s Game – How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam, was first published in 2005 and Dreyfuss writes some challenging notes down in his book.
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The United States and the Birth of Islamism
By Robert Dreyfuss
Could it really be that the United States spent decades cultivating Islamists? And that it manipulated and double-crossed them, cynically using and misusing them as Cold War allies? And that all of this spawned a force that turned against its sponsor with a vengeance? Robert Dreyfuss argues just that in “Devil’s Game.”
Like monsters imbued with artificial life, radical imams, mullahs and ayatollahs stalk the landscape, thundering not only against the United States — but against freedom of thought, against secular science, against nationalism and the left, against women’s rights.
Some are terrorists, but far more are just medieval-minded religious fanatics who want to turn the calendar back to the seventh century.
During the Cold War, from 1945 to 1991, the enemy was not merely the USSR. According to the Manichean rules of that era, the United States demonized leaders who did not wholeheartedly sign on to the U.S. agenda or who might challenge Western — and in particular U.S. — hegemony.
Ideas and ideologies that could inspire such leaders were suspect: nationalism, humanism, secularism, socialism. But subversive ideas such as these were also the ones most feared by the nascent forces of Muslim fundamentalism.
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“The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam.”—Salon.com
Devil’s Game is the first comprehensive account of America’s misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism.
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon, and foreign service officials, Robert Dreyfuss follows the trail of American collusion from support for the Muslim Brotherhood in 1950s Egypt, to links with Khomeini and Afghani jihadists, to longstanding ties between radical Islamists and the leading banks of the West.
The result is as tragic as it is paradoxical: originally deployed as pawns to foil nationalism and communism, extremist mullahs and ayatollahs now dominate the landscape, thundering against freedom of thought, science, women’s rights, secularism—and their former patron.
Chronicling a history of double-dealing, cynical exploitation, and humiliating embarrassment that continues to this day, Devil’s Game reveals a pattern that, far from furthering democracy or security, ensures a future of blunders and blowback.
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