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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 Aramaco
  • 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

Climate Denial Network

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

  • 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[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
  • 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[11][12][13][14][15]
  • 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[16][17][18]

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.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/climate-deniers/front-groups/
  5. ↑ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/meet-the-network-hiding-the-koch-money-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund/
  6. ↑ https://islamophobianetwork.com/funder/donors-capital-fund-and-donors-trust/
  7. ↑ https://www.desmog.com/donors-capital-fund/
  8. ↑ https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/climate-denial-machine-how-fossil-fuel-industry-blocks-climate-action
  9. ↑ https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Capital_Fund
  10. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/secretive-donors-gave-us-climate-denial-groups-125m-over-three-years
  11. ↑ https://leftfootforward.org/2022/05/climate-sceptic-think-tank-receives-funding-from-us-billionaire-bankroller-of-conservative-crusades/
  12. ↑ http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1953
  13. ↑ https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf
  14. ↑ https://portside.org/node/10360/printable/print
  15. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/climate-sceptic-thinktank-received-funding-from-fossil-fuel-interests
  16. ↑ https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/03/21/the-dirty-dozen-the-biggest-nonprofit-funders-of-climate-denial/
  17. ↑ https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fear-inc/
  18. ↑ https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
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