Abstract
This chapter introduces the concept of Din-wa-dawla (unity of state and religion) and Anti-Semitism and analyses important earlier empirical studies on the subject. We highlight the erroneous judgements of past US administrations about ties to the Muslim Brotherhood highlighted in President Obama’s Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010. Earlier empirical studies, reviewed in this chapter, inter alia come to the conclusion that 75% of religious Muslims appear to support politically moderate Islam, while 25% show support for politically radical Islam, and that there is no Anti-Zionism without Anti-Semitism. In the present background chapter, we also debate changes in the global economy and indicators of Global Terrorism. This chapter introduces the contents of Part II of the present monograph.
The corresponding author for this chapter is Arno Tausch (arno.tausch@yahoo.de).
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Notes
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See De Vogli et al. (2009).
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See Wilkinson and Pickett (2008).
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See our article series published for the IDC in Herzliya, Israel (http://www.rubincenter.org/author/arno-tausch/), the article for the Spring 2017 issue of the journal “Strategic Assessment” of the Institute for National Security Studies, INSS, in Tel Aviv (Berman and Tausch 2017) and the articles for journal “Telos” and “Telescope” in New York (http://www.telospress.com/author/atausch/).
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The title of this chapter is a direct reference to the famous French Novel “Submission”, published by Michel Houellebecq on January 7, 2015, the day of the terrible Paris Charlie Hebdo attacks (Houellebecq 2015). In the novel Michel Houellebecq describes a Presidential Election in France, where the Left teams up with the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent a far-right election victory of Ms. Marine Le Pen. The result is a very generalized Islamization of the French Republic after the election of the successful Muslim Brotherhood candidate.
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This term and the ideology about it was analyzed, among others, by Tibi (1993).
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