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Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal

Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal

Localism: the strategy of the enemy

The US political elites and their allies have two prescriptions for humankind. One for themselves; that is globalism. They have another prescription for the Muslims: localism in various races, regions, clans, sects, and languages. In 2006, Ralph Peters –the US veteran and strategist, argued in his article "Blood Borders," published in the Armed Forces Journal, that the borders of the Muslim countries do not conform with the sectarian, linguistic and ethnic realities on the ground. So he gave a blueprint of dismemberment of the Muslim countries as per various dissimilarities based on race, language and sect. He suggested that the countries like Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia should be divided. He put a map of the new countries in his article. As per his suggestion, Pakistan should be dismembered at least into four, one for each linguistic group. He gives implicit legitimacy to the separatists' war in Baluchistan. He prescribed three states in Iraq: one for the Shia Arabs, one for the Sunni Arabs and the third for the Kurdish people.

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