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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: How US Empire Created Jihad

The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

Tariq Ali

We have been completely brainwashed about the modern world. The War on Terror was never about saving democracy. It was a deadly collision of two extreme fanaticisms. On one side, a desperate religious fundamentalism. On the other side, an arrogant American imperial fundamentalism. Slide 1: The Great Lie. Forget the so-called clash of civilizations. That is just a convenient excuse for global expansion. The truth is far more brutal. American supremacy and Islamic extremism are blood brothers. Slide 2: The Blowback Effect. Osama bin Laden was not a sudden monster from the shadows. He was a weapon forged by the CIA. The US armed the hardest religious zealots just to bleed the Soviets. Now the empire is bleeding from its own sword. Slide 3: The Stolen Enlightenment. Islam was once the center of global logic and science. Then the hardline clerics took over. A complete failure to reform left a civilization frozen in time. Secular nationalism was deliberately crushed by Western powers to control the oil. Slide 4: The Unending Tragedy. The blind support for colonial agendas in the Middle East guarantees endless war. The victims are the innocent civilians caught between rockets and sanctions. You will finally understand the hidden gears of global conflicts. Stop believing the mainstream media narrative. Refuse the false choice between religious backwardness and imperial tyranny. True freedom requires rejecting both. Book Title: The Clash of Fundamentalisms Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Book Synopsis: A groundbreaking historical critique that shatters the myth of Western innocence. It reveals how centuries of imperial meddling directly manufactured the very extremist forces the West now claims to fight. Author Bio: Tariq Ali is a world-renowned writer, historian, and public intellectual. Known for his fearless critiques of American foreign policy and his deep historical knowledge, he relentlessly exposes the hypocrisies of global superpowers.