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"In Mohameddanism there is no regenerative power; it is 'of the letter, which killeth,' - unelastic, sterile, barren.... (To) progress it must prove an obstacle from its very character... It has no power of adaptation, expansion, development." - Reverend Lees, 1882[1]

  • ۗإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ

(Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. ~ The Thunder 11)

  • وَقَدۡ خَلَقَكُمۡ أَطۡوَارًا

(And yet, your creation proceeds in stages. ~ Noah 14)

Petro-Imperialism

European anti-Ottoman Propaganda... informed the representation of Islam as despotic by Enlightenment figures... (They) described despotism as a system that does not recognize private property, facilitating imperial disposession by Europe... Imperial arguments with regards to "Arab" and "Islamic" oil since World War I through the present moment, articulated under the sign of "development"... (argue that) colonized natives... had no right "to deny their bounties to those who need them." By the conclusion of World War II, a report produced by the Office of Strategic Services for the US State Department argued that "the principle of equitable distribution and exploitation overrides to some extent the sovereign rights of the oil producing countries and presupposes a kind of trusteeship of the big Powers over the world's oil resources."[2]

Colonial Discoveries

Map by Rasoul Sorkhabi, PhD, in 2010

European Empires and their multinational corporations initiated the initial (and massive) petroleum extraction and exploitation ventures across the Middle East[3], the region home to the majority of the world's known petroleum reserves:

  • Iran, 1908 – Masjid Sulaiman Field - Concessions Syndicate Ltd. (forerunner of British Petroleum)
  • Iraq, 1927 – Kirkuk Field – IPC (Anglo-Persian, Shell Oil, Francaise des Petroles, American Near East Development Corporation, and Gulbenkian Foundation)
  • Bahrain, 1932 – Jabal Dukhan Field – Standard Oil of California (Chevron)
  • Kuwait, 1938 – Burgan Field – Anglo-Persian
  • Saudi Arabia, 1938 – Dammam Field – Standard Oil of California (Chevron), now Saudi Aramco
  • Qatar, 1940 – Dukhan Field – IPC/Anglo-Persian
  • UAE, 1953 – Murban Field – IPC
  • Oman, 1956 – Marmul Field – Shell Oil & Gulbenkian Foundation
  • Syria, 1956 – Karatchok Field – American independent James W. Menhall Drilling Company
  • Yemen, 1984 – Alif Field – American Yemen-Hunt Oil Company

Political Economy

"In 1928, on reaching the long-delayed agreement to share the development of oil in Iraq, which included an undertaking to limit the development of oil elsewhere in the Middle East — and as efforts to prevent the export of oil by the Soviet Union collapsed — they made a parallel deal to divide the world’s markets among themselves, and to limit production to maintain prices. They later agreed to try to maintain those prices at the relatively high price at which oil was produced and sold in Texas.

These arrangements prevented the emergence of market competition, and thus ensured extraordinary profits to those who controlled the cheaply produced oil of the Middle East...

...only an anti-market arrangement of this sort could guarantee their profits. But they sought to consolidate such an arrangement, beginning in the 1930s, and again after the Second World War, at precisely the moment when the old methods for establishing exclusive control over the production of resources overseas — colonialism — were in the process of collapse. It was these factors that were to give political Islam its special role in the political economy of oil."[4]

Climate Denial Network

Many of the leading U.S. foundations funding climate denial and islamophobia are one and the same. For example:

Koch Oil

  • Donors Capital Fund & Donors Trust: The billionaire Koch Oil dynasty's "shadow money" network has covertly funneled more than $100 million to leading climate denial organizations and more than $27 million to leading islamophobia think tanks[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Scaife Oil

  • The Scaife Family Foundations: the Scaife Family is one the 30 richest U.S. billionaire dynasties, using its historic oil wealth as a top funder of leading climate denial and islamophobia think tanks[12][13][14][15][16]

It is primarily financed by the Mellon industrial, oil, and banking fortune, and is closely linked to reactionary think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.[17]

Bradley Foundation

  • The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation: one of the top 7 non-profit funders of both climate denial and islamophobia over the last decade, financing key think tanks in each sector[18][19][20]

(In 2019) alone, the Bradley Foundation spent more than $2 million funding CEI, the Cato Institute, the CO2 Coalition, the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Former employees of those groups have served in senior positions at the White House, Interior, DOE and EPA, and on President Trump’s transition teams for those agencies.[21]

Solutions

"The greatest way that you fight back against Islamophobia is that you give the microphone back to confident Muslims that fully believe in their Islam and that are giving back to the world and contributing to the world on the basis of their Islam." - Dr. Omar Suleyman[22]

Sources

  1. ↑ Reverend James Cameron Lees, 1882, quoted in Professor Joseph A. Massad's Islam in Liberalism, Published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press
  2. ↑ Professor Joseph A. Massad's Islam in Liberalism, Published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press
  3. ↑ https://geoexpro.com/the-first-oil-discoveries-in-the-middle-east/
  4. ↑ https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3256-mcjihad-empire-and-islam-between-the-us-and-saudi-arabia
  5. ↑ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/climate-deniers/front-groups/
  6. ↑ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/meet-the-network-hiding-the-koch-money-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund/
  7. ↑ https://islamophobianetwork.com/funder/donors-capital-fund-and-donors-trust/
  8. ↑ https://www.desmog.com/donors-capital-fund/
  9. ↑ https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/climate-denial-machine-how-fossil-fuel-industry-blocks-climate-action
  10. ↑ https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Capital_Fund
  11. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/secretive-donors-gave-us-climate-denial-groups-125m-over-three-years
  12. ↑ https://leftfootforward.org/2022/05/climate-sceptic-think-tank-receives-funding-from-us-billionaire-bankroller-of-conservative-crusades/
  13. ↑ http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1953
  14. ↑ https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf
  15. ↑ https://portside.org/node/10360/printable/print
  16. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/climate-sceptic-thinktank-received-funding-from-fossil-fuel-interests
  17. ↑ https://www.desmog.com/scaife-family-foundations/
  18. ↑ https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/03/21/the-dirty-dozen-the-biggest-nonprofit-funders-of-climate-denial/
  19. ↑ https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fear-inc/
  20. ↑ https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
  21. ↑ https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-dead-industrialists-funding-climate-denialism/
  22. ↑ "Combatting Islamophobia," (3/15/23); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDk8VeeGLBk
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