Islam in all its states - Mustapha K Chamakhi

The purpose of this book is to establish a a situational analysis of countries with a Muslim majority. There are now fifty states forming what is called the Islamic World.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Western world has substituted Islam for the former Soviet Union as public enemy N°1 and is waging a merciless war against it. Similarly, the heirs of the late Soviet Union , returned to their orthodox Christianity consider that the "threat comes from the South" and lead crusades that do not dare to say their names

In a territory so vast, populated - in three decades, it is said - by two billion people from different ethnicities, living in different climates, speaking different languages, but yet virtually united by the same religion, worshipping the one God, the Muslim World needs anything but a war. On the scale of history,he has just emerged from a painful colonial period that has torn him apart, humiliated, exploited him, subjected him to methodical acculturation and still drags the ruling classes that had collaborated with the colonialists and who continue, in several countries, to serve as relays against their people. Is Islam really a threat? Or rather the nostalgic fantasies of a declining civilization that seeks enemies to ensure its cohesion?

In any case, it is obvious that the peoples of both the Western peoples, worked by anti-Islamic media, and the Muslim peoples themselves, ignore, because no one has informed them, of the real situation of Islam in the world, its weaknesses but also its potential which is enormous and which make it unwise at all to push this colossus to the limit.

Hence the idea of writing this book in an attempt to inform each other of the reality of the situation and perhaps to identify opportunities for cooperation. This book uses data from the public domain, Wikipedia, the World Bank, the CIA, UNESCO, FAO or the ILO on the Internet. However, these data, that accurately describe the material situation of the Muslim World, adjoin to have a realistic picture, with the precepts of the Koran, which are of great wisdom and remarkable relevance. Thisproves, if need be, that Islam fit perfectly with modernity

The book consists of four parts: the first introduces the foundations of Islam because can we talk about the Muslim world by obscuring this monotheistic religion on which all Muslim civilization was built? The second traces the history of the expansion of Islam from the Atlantic to the Pacific from the 7th century to the present day and which highlights the resilience of this civilization that has so many trials and has come out stronger and stronger. Perhaps the great scholars of the history of Islam will find this part of the book somewhat sketchy and probably containing some inaccuracies, these scholars deserve the greatest respect and admiration; but the purpose of this book is not to delve into a few specific points of this history or to make the work of a historian. These pages were written only to express that the following parts of this book do not come out of nowhere; but that they are a continuation of what Islam has already experienced throughout the previous fourteen centuries. For what follows the history of the expansion of Islam is resolutely forward-looking. The third part that tries to identify future areas of intervention describes the contemporary Muslim world: its territory, its population, its economy, its poverty in the process of resorption, its food security problems, the corruption that undermines it, but also its promising progress in education for the future. The fourth part attempts to draw lessons from history and the experience of recent years in order to try to draw the outlines of a new beginning, not by importing a culture from elsewhere, but from the roots in Muslim culture that has shaped the way of being members of this civilization over the centuries.