Colonel Q-Daffi
"1. Repeated efforts to undermine secular movements in the region by imperialist nations, combined with repeated interference by the same imperialist interests in the internal affairs of the nations in that region and haphazard carving up of the old Ottoman Empire after WWII for political expediency in the interest of colonial powers."
Plain English please. The passive voice in this sentence is hoarse enough to muffle everything.
1. US, UK, and other imperialist nations have a history going back to at least just after WWII of undermining secular governments in the Middle East in the context of the Cold War and supporting religious reactionaries in that region as a counterweight to Soviet influence-- Afghanistan was merely the culmination of this policy, it started in 1953 with the CIA and MI6 orchestrated overthrown of the democratic regime in Iran and continued with Western policy towards Egypt (and to a lesser extent Syria, Algeria, and Palestine) until 1978 when the CIA intervened in Afghanistan to successfully provoke a Soviet intervention.
2. After WWI when the European colonial powers (primarily the UK and France) divided up the old Ottoman Empire, borders were drawn which exist to this day on the basis of political expediency rather than traditional tribal or sectarian boundaries. This in turn led to deformed national development in the region.
3. The result of (1) and (2) above was the following:
(a) Hostility and resentment towards foreign intervention, which was easily then framed by religious fundamentalists as the kuffar versus Muslims.
(b) The weakening of secular regimes and progressive movements in the area.
(c) The creation of reactionary organizations and movements to oppose these regimes.
(d) The weakening of the development of a national, rather than religious, identity for many in the region, as well as a deformation of the governing structures themselves.
"2. Corruption and authoritarianism of secular regimes in the region leading to a perception that secularism (and along with it Arab nationalism) had failed, thus leading to a reawakening of Islamic fundamentalism and universalism to fill the void."
Local factors: Does it have to be either secular or religious? In other words, is there any human normative purity or absolutism?
And
you're complaining about "plain English?"
While I'm not sure I understand your question, I will attempt to divine its meaning and answer anyways-- most people tend to engage in binary thinking thus it's very easy for Muslim clerics and political activists to say "Well see how corrupt and useless secular government is? We must return to Islam to clean up the corruption and make life better for people"
"3. The UK, US, and Pakistan organizing a global militant Islamist movement to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, which imported the radicalism that had already developed in the Middle East to South and Central Asia and further globalized the problem."
External factors: should it be understood that radicalism is about contextual readings of Islam, not textual?
Again, not sure I understand the question, BUT, I'm just looking at this as an organizational/historical analysis of the global Islamic "reawakening" which is spoken of here-- its organizational components and historical causes, I'm not willing to speculate any further than that at this time.
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