Instrumentalization of Islam by states

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Mapa Mental sobre Instrumentalization of Islam by states, criado por Rachel Gabriel em 24-05-2015.
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Instrumentalization of Islam by states
  1. Question: The importance of the instrumentalization of Islam by states relative to what we would otherwise see as autonomous transnational Islam operating outside of state policy and power
    1. First Point: Saudi and the Wahhabism Thesis: Radial center of Global Islam
      1. Reality: SA under internal and external threat. Largest threat to SA legitimacy is Iranian revolution = spread of W internationally
        1. Internal contradictions of Wahhabism - not w/ political activism but Saudi hosts MB, supports hamas?
        2. How should we understand the role of SA in the MW over the past 30 years? What has been the impact of Saudi largesse on the broad currents of Islamic education, associational and political activity in EAfrica? What does the case of Indonesia reveal about the broader pattern of "Wahhabi' and Salafi' influence in the contemporary Muslim World?
          1. Second Point: Indonesia
            1. Hassan: Salafi madras in indonesia evolved as consequence of SA ambitious global campaign for W of Muslim umma as part of FP:demonstrate importance of TN networks - spreading of SA style W among Indonesia Ms @ grassroots level
            2. National demonization by nations OF islamist groups
              1. US expansion of power - increased military force & presence - Obama covert war in Yemen = creation of special forces in various areas of Sahel or W. Africa - using Djibouti for operations in somalia and HOA in heme in pakistan in S. phillipins = creation of Africom, PSI, TS
                1. Opportunity seeking govts ally w/ US in exchange for assistance, resources, etc. = welcomed by authoritarian regimes as an exude to repress political opposition (uzbwkistan, Yemen, Algeria, Mauritania)