Resistance against Oppression!

 Abir Chaaban *Resistance against oppression seemed tome as a very attractive theme when it is brought into the debate on the topic “Know Radical Islam”.** Why? Because it is the grounds upon which radical Islam recruits for terror and destruction. The radicals are simply taking advantage of the chronic repressive regimes that have been in control of the affairs of the Arabic speaking Middle Eastern states by recruiting for the revolutionary ideology of pan-Islam instead of the revolutionary ideology of pan-Arabism. What has changed is simply nothing; it is the“resistance” by one form of oppression that will be replaced with another.Radical Islam however utilizes the same discourse for recruitment as the one that is utilized by the Arab dictators, and that is the discourse for the destruction of Zionism instead of resisting the real oppression and thatis the oppression of our own governments, who are corrupt and brutal. More...