ISLAMISM: THE THIRD STAGE OF THE DECOLONIZATION MISSILE?
NUMBER of MAGAZINE: 33 (3) 2008ã.
The HEADING: FOREIGN AFFAIRS
AUTHORS: Mirsky Georgy
1. The ‘civilization war’ is principally contra to the interests of ruling elites of all the developing countries without exception. They not just cannot and have no wish to break up from the West, but on the contrarily, they are interested in better and more favorable ways of entering the world capitalist economy, where the West sets tone. The Third World ruling classes for a time have long ago forgotten the ideas ‘alternative development’, be that the Nasser-type “national socialism”, or Kaddaffi’s “the third way”, or Imam Khomeini’s “the blessed Islamic economy”. They understand that the militant ‘Islamism’ would plunge their countries into a precipice of isolation and full disorder. 2. “The third stage of the missile” of anti-colonial struggle is a myth. At that, an extremely dangerous myth, threatening the stability in today's world to much greater extent than anything else. Globalization has provided the Islamic extremists with such means of destabilization and creating explosive situations that the terrorists, nihilists and anarchists of old times did not dear to dream of. The Islamic terror, provoking their victims to retaliate using the force, might boomerang in monstrous blow upon the Muslim world itself. That could bring in catastrophic consequences even in those parts of the planet that are not yet involved in the increasing confrontation between the Muslim extremism and the American superpower unilateralism. 3. The dramatic violent actions, kindling of hatred, intolerance and irreconcilability, calls to ruthless fight against the enemies of the faith - all that can just damage the natural process of the adapting the traditional values of the Orient to the realities of the modern world that had made a great leap forward from the times of stagnant and sclerotic religious dogmatism. There is no place here for any rocket stunning one’s imagination, the decisive thing is the persistent day-to-day labor inspired by idea of cooperation and mutual enrichment of civilizations, the idea that rejects civilization collisions and “battle of the incompatible worlds”.
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