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  • From: "Christian Stalberg" <cstalberg AT develop.net>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Fw: U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam
  • Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:50:26 -0400


This is excellent and highly recommended!

From an article originally published in the June 2001 issue of Foreign
Policy in Focus. Full text is available at:
http://fpif.org/briefs/vol6/v6n24islam.html

"U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam"

Key Points
a.. U.S. policy toward the Islamic world is skewed by negative stereotypes
of Islam that fail to recognize its diversity.
b.. Radical Islamic movements often arise out of the legitimate needs and
grievances of oppressed sectors of the population who see the U.S. as partly
responsible for their suffering.
c.. Washington has encouraged the rise of extremist Islamic politics both
through shortsighted support for such movements or governments and through
its support of repressive regimes, which often trigger extremist backlash
responses.
d.. The U.S. has supported hard-line Islamic movements and governments,
such as the Saudi Arabia regime, which have encouraged extremist movements
elsewhere.
e.. U.S. support for repressive governments makes democratic and
nonviolent options for the Islamic opposition extremely difficult.
f.. Neoliberal economic development strategies-vigorously encouraged by
the U.S.-have resulted in widespread economic dislocation, which has in turn
encouraged the growth of radical Islamic movements.
g.. The U.S. must shift from supporting repressive governments to
encouraging greater democracy and pluralism in the Islamic world.
h.. The U.S. must demand an end to Israel's illegal occupation of Arab
East Jerusalem and other Palestinian territories and promote a peace
agreement that recognizes the city's importance to all three monotheistic
faiths.
i.. The U.S. should support sustainable economic development in the
Islamic world, so that the benefits of foreign investment and globalization
can be more fairly distributed with minimal social disruption.







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