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Un monde sans l'Islam

Dans le dernier numéro de "Foreign Policy" (Janvier-Fevrier 2008) un article fort intéressant de Graham Fuller "Un monde Sans l'Islam". Le monde aurait-il été meilleur si l'Islam n'avait jamais existé?

"(...) some values are easily misunderstood. That is the case for Islam today. Too many people believe that Islam is the cause of much of the world’s suffering. For them, the thinking goes, a world without Islam would have no holy wars, no terrorists, no clash of civilizations. In this issue’s cover story, Graham Fuller exposes how bankrupt these beliefs are, convincingly arguing that even if you remove Islam from the history books, the world would still end up where it is today.
The values we hold dearest are often the ones we are taught. "Extrait de l'édito de Foreign Policy"

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Voici, pour respecter le copyright, un extrait de l'article:

"But the question remains, if Islam didn’t exist, would the world be more peaceful? In the face of these tensions between East and West, Islam unquestionably adds yet one more emotive element, one more layer of complications to finding solutions. Islam is not the cause of such problems. It may seem sophisticated to seek out passages in the Koran that seem to explain "why they hate us." But that blindly misses the nature of the phenomenon. How comfortable to identify Islam as the source of "the problem"; it’s certainly much easier than exploring the impact of the massive global footprint of the world’s sole superpower.

A world without Islam would still see most of the enduring bloody rivalries whose wars and tribulations dominate the geopolitical landscape. If it were not religion, all of these groups would have found some other banner under which to express nationalism and a quest for independence. Sure, history would not have followed the exact same path as it has. But, at rock bottom, conflict between East andWest remains all about the grand historical and geopolitical issues of human history: ethnicity, nationalism, ambition, greed, resources, local leaders, turf, financial gain, power, interventions, and hatred of outsiders, invaders, and imperialists. Faced with timeless issues like these, how could the power of religion not be invoked?

Remember too, that virtually every one of the principle horrors of the 20th century came almost
exclusively from strictly secular regimes: Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. It was Europeans who visited their "world wars" twice upon the rest of the world—two devastating global conflicts with no remote parallels in Islamic history.
Some today might wish for a "world without Islam" in which these problems presumably had never come to be. But, in truth, the conflicts, rivalries, and crises of such a world might not look so vastly different than the ones we know today."

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En définitive, un monde sans l'Islam serait toujours un monde de violence.

La seule chose que nous ajouterons à cet auteur est que le monde sans Islam est un monde qui persévèrera certainement dans la violence mais ce que l'Islam apporte au monde ce n'est pas la violence mais la paix. Complétons alors le titre: "Un monde sans l'Islam...a-t-il une chance de paix?"

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Pr ELY Mustapha

Ps: Les "gras " dans le texte sont de nous.