The article would be more effective and may be of best service if it were directed to the Muslims themselves, particularly those with wealth and power. Most Muslims presently live under tyrannical and/or suppressive governments and in societies where the leaders effectively use religion for social control. There is no wealth distribution within the society, and the wealthy class prefers to join the Western society by investing their wealth abroad. The poor majority are considered to exist merely to support the 5 to 10% wealthy class, as servants and source of cheap labor. There is yet a benevolent Muslim leader who has been cleansed of greed and lust of power who possess deep concerns for uplifting the well being of the Muslims in their own countries.
<< Political exploitation of Islam continued, but the enemy became simply Muslim peoples themselves. This was exemplified in the financing (with petrodollars) of some 7,500 religious schools in Pakistan, India and the Arab world, schools that taught only isolationism, backwardness and hostility. Arab and other Muslim tyrannies sought, by leaving the educational and cultural fields to Islamism, to acquire legitimacy at the cheapest and most opportunistic price: by keeping the masses ignorant and preventing them from improving their lot, politically and economically. Better to direct their hopes toward the hereafter. >> |
