Islam: Ideology and Tool of the Exploiting Classes

Contemporary political Islam is a complex phenomenon. It has been used by different arrays of class forces – the Western colonial-imperialist powers, the reactionary regimes of the Muslim countries, the reactionary forces opposing these regimes, and, at times, nationalist forces as a means to mobilise the opposition of the masses to foreign domination. Political Islam has flourished in recent decades in the Middle Eastern countries in opposition to the regimes there, and which has overwhelmingly represented the aspirations and objectives of reactionary class forces who have been pushed out of the power structures and have been jockeying for better positions within the existing state structures. Wherever and in so far as the masses have been attracted to these forces, it has not been mainly due to any so-called religious impulse but more because of their reaction to the extreme conditions of injustice that imperialism and their puppet regimes have imposed on the masses. The following link will take you to a very important article, called,"Islam: Ideology and Tool of the Exploiting Classes" by Nasreen Jazaveri www.sarbedaran.org/language/Islam-jazayeri.htm