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By Aylin Kocaman , Posted on » Friday, December 06, 2013
Robin Wright’s claim regarding a new Middle East map, in a piece published a few months back in the New York Times, certainly hit the headlines. Wright prophesied that five countries in the Middle East would split up into 14. Countries in the region reacted strongly to this prophesy. But how accurate was Wright’s prediction?
The fragmentation of Iraq, the ruinous state of Syria and the latest squall of rage in Libya are most troubling. That is how divisions have always begun in the Middle East; through instabilities and rage.
That is why we need to take Wright’s prediction seriously. The Middle East could be divided into still smaller components. That would be no surprise because part of the Islamic world is full of rage. Hatred has been growing stronger ever since the Islamic world was divided into sects and those sects declared one another enemies. Attempts are made to solve almost every problem through protests, anarchy and turmoil. Unity has lost all importance in their eyes. Regrettably, many of them have entirely forgotten the commandments of the Quran.
According to the Quran, they should form a united Islamic Ummah and bring about a reign of love and affection. Instead, groups have emerged based on sect, race and ethnic origin. These groups imagine they can live easier by distancing themselves from one another; however, the more they divide, the more tragedies hound them. They have become so used to violence that they are unaware of it.
The West was delighted when the Middle East was fragmented in the wake of the First World War. The West benefited greatly from that fragmentation at the time. However, it later inflicted disaster on the West as well as the Middle East.
The position of the Bush and Blair administrations in the Iraq war, Afghanistan and other minor interventions in the Middle East all carried their terrifying natures to the West. The stability expected in the wake of the Arab Spring failed to materialise, but ongoing instability has failed to benefit the West as it had in the past. Europe is keeping its distance from the Middle East, and America is trying to pull out without damaging its image as a superpower. The Middle East has dragged the West into its own tragedy. Further fragmentation of the Middle East will only worsen that tragedy.
Is Islam responsible for this state of the Middle East? That is where many Western analysts go wrong - they target Islam instead of radicalism. The weakness of true Islam always feeds radicalism, and strengthens hatred, rage and division. To blame true Islam is to destroy the only cure that can save the Middle East from the virus of terror.
It must not be forgotten that radicalism, enmity and rage cannot be eliminated by sending in more drones and killing more terrorists; the one and only way is the true conception of Islam. Westerners must collaborate with enlightened Muslims if they desire a solution.
A call must also go out to enlightened Muslims from here; prosperity lies in alliance, not opposition. A powerful Islamic Union established by enlightened Muslims will come as a massive relief not only to the Islamic world, but to all countries, faiths and ideologies. That is not an utopian fantasy: It is Allah’s command, and His promise. They must lose no time in leading the way to an alliance and union that will bring peace to the world. They must show the world that a solution to radicalism is only possible with Islam.
If the world turns its back on true Islam and prefers to look more to rage as a solution, then it will be opening the door to its own destruction. Countries will be divided further and radicals will become ever more radical. Every little group will become hostile to others, and also to the Christian West. They must therefore stop blaming Islam and instead seek a solution from the true and rational Islam of the Quran