The Great Deception and the Greater Middle East Initiative
Samuel P Huntington was an influential political scientist from the United States of America whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He authored Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order where he wrote “as long as Islam remains Islam and the west remains the west” meaning unless Islam changes to become like the west or the west changes to become like Islam then this clash of civilization would be inevitable. America had to do something to counter this and devised a plan and strategy which they named The Greater Middle East initiative. I wonder how many of you have heard about this?
The most important foreign policy of America is The Greater Middle East Initiative. Most of America’s time and money when it comes to international relations on foreign policy is not spent on Russia or China but is spent on the Middle East. This initiative contains not only the Middle East but also Mauritania and Morocco, Pakistan and further beyond to the East. Note all of those countries targeted are majority Muslim nations.
In a November 2003 speech before the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush reiterated his commitment to promoting democracy in Iraq and in the Middle East and likened his “forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East” to earlier U.S. commitments to see democracy spread throughout Eastern Europe. The President openly acknowledged in his speech that the United States has not been vigorous in pursuing the spread of democracy to the Middle East by noting that “60 years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe, because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of Liberty (Bush Urges Commitment To Transform Mideast).
Although the Bush Administration had previously identified democracy promotion in the Middle East to be a foreign policy priority, analysts noted that President Bush’s November 2003 remarks foreshadowed new U.S. efforts to foster the spread of
reform and democracy in Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Read more here The Middle East Partnership Initiative(MEPI).
In the months following the President’s remarks, new plans emerged for encouraging democracy in the “greater Middle East.” On February 13, 2004, the English language website of the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat published a draft copy of the proposed G84 “greater Middle East” plan, a working paper devised by U.S. Administration officials, in conjunction with European partners, to be presented at the June 8-10, 2004 G8 summit meeting in Sea Island, Georgia.
The draft plan drew upon data from the United Nations’ Arab Human Development Report of 2002 and 2003, which extensively outlined a number of development shortfalls facing the Arab world. Among other things, the draft paper called on G8 members to provide technical assistance to monitor elections, sponsor training programs for independent journalists, increase funding for non-governmental organizations, establish a Middle East development bank, and provide training to women interested in running for elective office in countries with upcoming parliamentary elections. Overall, the draft paper focused almost exclusively on reform and made little reference to the Arab-Israeli peace process. Read more here The Broader Middle East and North Africa .
In other words America had no intention of competing and clashing with a civilization, which would never have harmed the average person in the west in anyway, but would be a threat to the controlling corporations who control America’s every move and would mean an end to corruption. So America decided to pump billions and billions in order to change Islam and had to make sure that Islam changed to adapt with the west.
They even went to such an extent that the RAND corporation published a book entitled “Civil Democratic Islam”.
In 2004, the G8 launched a Mid-East Reform plan.
What was the objective? To change Islam from an ideology, from a complete system of life which has government and politics and authority as a part of it into a religion in which we just do the five pillars of Islam. Have you not noticed how in Ramadan the president of America addresses us as if he’s our leader and wishes us a happy Ramadan? Bush, Clinton and Obama have all been doing it for the past decade where they address us and encourage us to fast, eat, pray and give more to charity. Do you know why? Because that’s all they want Islam to be. What they fear the most is the fact that the major battles have been won by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.
The whole aim of the initiative of the Greater Middle East was to make the whole region democratic and to introduce a new Islam. One of the titles they used was a “Civil Democratic Islam”. Civil means secular which means people make the laws that they want and they don’t come from any religion. It means that Sharia is eventually abolished and man made laws would be the rule to follow.
In order to achieve this they had to set up a strategy. The first was the “war on terror” where they destroyed Iraq and went into Afghanistan.
Iraq was intended to be the first Islamic Democratic model state, similar to that of what they are trying to introduce in Egypt today, what Turkey has become and what Tunisia is becoming. And they are still trying to implement this.
In 2002, former President Bill Clinton visited Turkey and said “Turkey will be a model for the rest of the region to follow”. In 2010 following the success, Clinton stated to university students “You have shown enormous respect for religion without being paralyzed by it, without using it as a political weapon.”
Since when has Islam paralyzed us? That statement on its own said enough. He went on to state that if they continued on this path of modernization and reconciliation that they would prove to the world that it’s not about religion. Isn’t it strange that Clinton addressed Islamists in such a way? Isn’t it strange how they support Islamists today? Do you understand what they are trying to implement here?
Where they have failed, they implemented another strategy in order to achieve their objectives.
Parallel to this, they prepared youth movements and the so called Islamist organisations in Arab countries to introduce this new civil democratic Islam. They have many strategies, if one didn’t work, they had another. When their Baghdad plan failed, they had Turkey and at the same time they had the Arab Spring in preparation.
As part of the Greater Middle East initiative they started to pressurize regimes to bring about change and reforms by backing some movements. In 2005 there was a movement called Kefaya in Egypt. The movement was short lived and the RAND corporation wrote an article on what lessons can be learned and why Kefaya failed in order to achieve success next time. After the failure they continuously pressurized regimes to reform and change. But Mubarak and Ben Ali and Qaddafi were not interested and wanted to hang on to power. And then the Arab Spring went into play…
This lecture on the The Great Deception of the Arab Spring exposes the American plan to empower Islamists to implement secularism through the staged revolutions of the Arab Spring as part of its foreign policy for the region, the Greater Middle East Initiative (GMEI) in order to deceive the Ummah to reform Islam into a secular religion.
