The RAND Corporation has jotted down the empire's solution to the
Islamic problem in the Middle East for all to see in the recent
report.
Special note,,,read carefully...this is the same tactic used against the BM.
Study ,learn ,listen, analyze and implement
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The following text is excerpted from the Rand document
entitled, "Civil, Democratic, Islam, Partners Resources, and
Strategies.
To encourage positive change in the Islamic world toward greater
democracy,Assimilation and compatibility with the contemporary international world order, the United States and the West need to consider very carefully which elements, trends, and forces within Islam they intend to strengthen; what the goals and values of their various potential allies and protégés really are; and what the broader consequences of advancing their respective agendas are likely to be. A mixed approach composed of the following elements is likely to be the most
effective:
• Support the modernists first:
— Publish and distribute their works at subsidized cost.
— Encourage them to write for mass audiences and for youth.
— Introduce their views into the curriculum of Islamic education.
— Give them a public platform.
— Make their opinions and judgments on fundamental questions of
religious
interpretation available to a mass audience in competition with
those of the fundamentalists and traditionalists, who have Web sites,
publishing houses, schools, institutes, and many other vehicles for
disseminating
their views.
— Position secularism and modernism as a "counterculture" option for
disaffected Islamic youth.
— Facilitate and encourage an awareness of their pre- and non-Islamic
history and culture, in the media and the curricula of relevant
countries.
— Assist in the development of independent civic organizations, to
promote
civic culture and provide a space for ordinary citizens to educate
themselves about the political process and to articulate their views.
• Support the traditionalists against the fundamentalists:
— Publicize traditionalist criticism of fundamentalist violence and
extremism;
encourage disagreements between traditionalists and fundamentalists.
— Discourage alliances between traditionalists and fundamentalists.
— Encourage cooperation between modernists and the traditionalists who
are closer to the modernist end of the spectrum.
— Where appropriate, educate the traditionalists to equip them better
for
debates against fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are often
rhetorically
superior, while traditionalists practice a politically
inarticulate "folk
Islam." In such places as Central Asia, they may need to be educated
and trained in orthodox Islam to be able to stand their ground.
— Increase the presence and profile of modernists in traditionalist
institutions.
xii Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies
— Discriminate between different sectors of traditionalism. Encourage
those with a greater affinity to modernism, such as the Hanafi law
school, versus others. Encourage them to issue religious opinions and
popularize these to weaken the authority of backward Wahhabiinspired
religious rulings. This relates to funding: Wahhabi money goes
to the support of the conservative Hanbali school. It also relates to
knowledge: More-backward parts of the Muslim world are not aware of
advances in the application and interpretation of Islamic law.
— Encourage the popularity and acceptance of Sufism.
• Confront and oppose the fundamentalists:
— Challenge their interpretation of Islam and expose inaccuracies.
— Reveal their linkages to illegal groups and activities.
— Publicize the consequences of their violent acts.
— Demonstrate their inability to rule, to achieve positive development of their countries and communities.
— Address these messages especially to young people, to pious traditionalist populations, to Muslim minorities in the West, and to women.
— Avoid showing respect or admiration for the violent feats of
fundamentalist extremists and terrorists. Cast them as disturbed and cowardly, not as evil heroes.
— Encourage journalists to investigate issues of corruption,
hypocrisy, and
immorality in fundamentalist and terrorist circles.
— Encourage divisions among fundamentalists.
• Selectively support secularists:
— Encourage recognition of fundamentalism as a shared enemy,
discourage
secularist alliance with anti-U.S. forces on such grounds as
nationalism and leftist ideology.
— Support the idea that religion and the state can be separate in
Islam too
and that this does not endanger the faith but, in fact, may
strengthen it.
Just an interesting note. Keep reading and wake up!
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