The inaccuracy rationality reasons in Kepel’s thought relevance to roots of Islamic movements

Many of the western scientists that study, explore and review concerning the Orient achieved monstrous knowledge from this branch of studies ,but their perception and critic argument

had major inaccuracy because they didn’t live actually within the Eastern people and were unfamiliar with the origins of their opinions.

One of the scholars of this group named Gilles Kepel followed this common misperception in his theories about the East. This short paper clarifies one of the false arguments of Kepel when he analyzes the roots of Islamic movements.

Gilles Kepel mentioned these factors as the reasons for Is lamic movements:

1.       Young villagers’ immigration to cities on behalf of poverty within the Islamic countries

2.       Emergence of the modern metropolitan cities in these countries(Kepel, 2002)

3.       A growth in th population of the literate youngsters who didn’t have a thorough background of Imperialism notion (Kepel, 2002)

4.       An increase in the number of population in urban areas because of the health facilities improvement (Kepel, 2007)

In these four major factors Kepel didn’t refer to people’s awareness related to the colonialism and its abuse or misuse of the Islamic countries. Although in the some of his books and papers he mentioned this factor, he did not emphasize on it, which shows that he didn’t understand the topic of or hid it deliberately. From some of his books one can understand that the U.S. government has designed a plot and a war in Middle-East and Islamic country to dominate them (Naghibzadeh, 2009: 43).

In his idea, the more Muslim people approach the democratic governments, the more their thought is correct, and if the refrain it they would approach an incorrect movement of Muslims (Kepel, 2002).

Then with these issues we can conclude that although many of the Islamic movements  that exist move falsely, the most important roots of these movements is their awareness to the Western world ominous plans.

References:

Kepel, Gills , 2007 ,”Islamic fundamentalism”[online] ,available at:<http://www.uisa.ir/index.php?option=com-content&task+view&id=120&itemid=5> [accessed ]7/ nov/2010 )

Kepel, Gills , 2004 ,” The war for Muslim minds: an interview with Gilles Kepel”[online] ,available at :< http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-5-57-2216.jsp#> [accessed ]7/ nov/2010 )

       Kepel, Gills,2002. “Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam”. An interview by Joanne J. Myers.[ online] ,available at:< http://www.cceia.org/resources/trans/135.html> [Accessed 16/05/08]

              naghibzadeh, ahmad , 2009 , “fitna in Middle East heart”, Newsletter Iranian international studies association, vol 2,isu 7 ,publication summer 2010