1.0Twist Islamophobiahttps://twistislamophobia.org/enFundación de Cultura Islámicahttps://twistislamophobia.org/en/author/funci/Sectarization as a political tool - Twist Islamophobiarich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="q7wSC9UUoj"><a href="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2017/11/10/sectarization-as-political-tool/">Sectarization as a political tool</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2017/11/10/sectarization-as-political-tool/embed/#?secret=q7wSC9UUoj" width="600" height="338" title="“Sectarization as a political tool” — Twist Islamophobia" data-secret="q7wSC9UUoj" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sectarización_0.png1000500Middle East teacher and expert, Nader Hashemi, collaborator the Islamic Culture Foundation in his protect “Islam and constitutionalism: an open dialogue”, has just published, along with researcher Danny Postel, the book: “Sectarization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East”. This book analyzes the process and state of sectarization in the Middle East, with the aim of explaining how this phenomenon has become one of the most common arguments to justify the region’s conflicts. As a result, economic and political problems have been largely overlooked. The following review, published by Middle East Reviews, gathers the main topics treated in this work. Much of the contemporary analyses on the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, namely Syria and Iraq, take it for granted that the violence is rooted in a 1,400 year-old conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims. This neo-oriental assumption centers religion as the main category of analysis and frames it as the primary cause and site of conflict in the region. Much like Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia, sectarianism is presented as a product of atavistic hatreds, which are endemic to local communities and trans-historical in nature. This approach implies that sectarianism persists despite socio-economic and political change. ...