I am not sure what I want to say here, but I wanted to test what Arabs do vis-à-vis what Islam is all about. For a foreign eye, that misses details, and focuses on output, it is quite difficult to correlate Arabs behavior with Islam teachings and core values as proclaimed since 9/11….as a matter of fact Arabs brought on a bad name to the glorious belief. More so demographically they cannot claim ownership of Islamic faith as they represent only less than 20% of the Muslims of the world.When USA adopted its capitalism ideology it sought the welfare of its people. When USSR sanctified communism, it was convinced that communism would bring a creating a better future for its people and the welfare of its future generations. When the message of Islam propagated it incited the welfare and dignity of human kind.Some of the Arab countries claim they are Muslim countries, yet none have adopted Islam as an ideology including Saudi Arabia from my point of view and as I explain hereinafter.
Islam when started, it propagated among the disadvantaged people of the community. Some where still subjects of slavery, some where poor and some where of delusional beliefs. Yet the Islamic belief system was able to transfer within a period of 50 to 100 years, its people and communities to a flourishing and respected nation. During the medieval era in Europe, it was a sign of culture to use some Arabic terminologies, during conversations to express thoughts and social status among the European elites.
What are the values and beliefs that helped in such transformation? among most important are: unity of destination, freedom of humankind and in speech without encroaching on others rights, constant erudition, material is not a purpose of life but a mean for humankind betterment, work hard for betterment of human kind and you shall be eternally judged by its outcome, life is short so make the best of it within the lore of Islam, and that individual behavior is a true reflection of what his belief is about.
Assuming a scoreboard to measure the success of any country against the application of such of measures we can hardly see any country that succeeded in application of Islam as ideology and a belief. Most of Arab countries, has low education rate, stopped contribution to science since the loud collapse of Andalusia in the fourteenth century and suffers of worst human rights records.
Why? did they embraces a different or a counter-Islam path? I cannot say why but what I can say is that Islam is beyond all what we are seeing in the Arab world.
In case the reader agrees with me on that the Islamic countries are not Islamic per se, but rather grotesque regimes that uses and manipulate masses sentiments and destinies in their favor, so ideology are they adopting.
The outcome of the system or ideologies adopted in the Arab world currently results in the following main characteristics;
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Extended ruling periods for their leaders. (several cases can be quoted here)
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Creation of privileged centers of powers, monopolizing investments and power brokerage.
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Creation of RepungDoms (Republic countries ran in Kingdom like manner).
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Delusional propaganda machinery directed towards the youth groups and women.
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Low Industrial Index, high Population growth, extremely high political illiteracy, lack of national vision or goals, high rate of consumption, least contribution of public to the governance and erosion of Research and development role in life.
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High purchase of military merchandise and diminishing military human capacities. Preferential treatment to military personnel and segregating armies and police from its public base as most of the military and police activities are directed within.
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Disunion between rulers and those ruled to the extents that Arab countries may be suffering political apartheid between rulers and subjects.
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Economic and political re-colinisation.
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Dilapidated education system and contradicting in some instances.
I can carry on, as the list is in-exhaustive, but the question I that still rings in my mind is what Ideology Do the Arab Countries Adopt?. Whatever the answer may be, it should be an ideology that led them to bottom and the coming generations may have to bear the consequence of their stray.
The wondering mind of ,
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