Anticipatory Set Question The Dilemma Looking

Anticipatory Set Question

The Dilemma

Looking at Gulf War II from A Western View Point

The Middle East After WW I

Traditional Divisions Within the Islamic Areas of the Middle East

Loyality

Sunni vs. Shia

The Spread of Islam

Another Divisive Element

The Sauds and the Ikhwan

The Saudi Dilemma

Fundamentalist Philosophy

The West Viewed As an Intruder

The Rise of Modern Fundamentalism

Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani

Islamic Nationlism

Secular Nationalism

PLO/PFLP

Hamas

Hezbollah (Party of God)

Al-Qaeda

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Taliban

Boko Haram

ISIL/Islamic State

Examples of Internal Strife because Sectarian Differences

Tribes in Afghanistan

The Soviet Invasion

Resistance to the Soviets

The Birth of the Taliban

U. S. Aid

The Birth of Al-Qaeda

Afghan Peace Accords

U. S. Stops Aid to Afghanistan

Results of the 10 Year War

Rise of the Taliban

Taliban Rule

Bin Laden

September 11, 2001

U. S. in Afghanistan

Operation Enduring Freedom

Iraq

Ethnic Group 1: Sunni Arabs

Ethnic Group 2: Shi’te Arabs

Ethnic Group 3: Kurds

Ethnicity and Parties

Kurds

Gulf War I

Gulf War II

The Post-Saddam Government

Rise of ISIL/Islamic State

ISIS/ISIL – The Islamic State

ISIS/ISIL in Iraq and Syria

Syria

The Syrian Civil War

Syrian Civil War

Much of Syria has been Destroyed

ISIL in Syria

International Dimension of the Sectarian Conflict in Syria

The Humanitarian Crisis

Student “Musts”

Pro-Western governments in the Arab World are often conflicted between their desire to modernize and be part of the World economy and receive Western military support and their need to pander to fundamentalists within their populations. The following cartoon shows the dilemma the Saudis had with the arrival of American troops in 1990 to protect against a possible Iraqi invasion.

1990

Questions for Consideration

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