Parties of political Islam in the Arab world

One of the paradoxes of what happened is that the popular masses that sparked the revolutions (the Arab Spring 2011) and toppled tyrannical regimes and tyrants, the political parties of Islam were hijacked by the authorities , although they did not participate in these revolutions, and most of their leaders were either in prison, exile, or working in secret.

وتفسير ذلك يعود ذلك لسببين: الأول, ان تلك الجماهير ما كانت موحدة في قيادة سياسية, والثاني, ان الناس كانوا ينظرون الى قادة احزاب الاسلام السياسي بوصفهم مناضلين اشداء ضد حكام مستبدين, ففازوا في الأنتخابات واستلمت الحكم في 2011 غير انها تقهقرت بعد عقد من (Arab Spring).

Far from the controversy and the multiplicity of interpretations concerning (Islamism) and whether (political Islam) is a contemporary ideology, or that (Islam is the solution), what interests us here is: Why the parties of political Islam have not succeeded in managing people’s affairs politically and economically? And why has she fallen in confidence, even among the masses who have brought her to power?

His last fall was (September 8, 2021). On that day, the Justice and Development Party in Morocco suffered a severe defeat in a way that did not occur to its ardent opponents … to go from 125 seats in the 2016 elections to 12 ! In 2021. Indignant or ashamed, the Prime Minister, who is the secretary general of the Justice and Development Party (Saad Eddine El Othmani), who presented himself in the district surrounding the capital, Rabat … did not managed to get a parliamentary seat and was won by a young man of his son’s age!

The New York Times described the loss of Morocco’s Islamists in parliamentary elections as “the defeat of the last Islamist government in the Middle East and North Africa.” and this is not true at the level of the Middle East, because the power is in Iraq is still in the hands of the political parties of Islam … even if they almost fell before their fall in Morocco. article for us in Al-Mada dated (7/22/2018) titled (The Rise and Fall of Political Islam Parties in Iraq) he discussed the reasons that led to the rise of Islamic parties The politician at the top after the change (2003), and the reasons that pushed her away from that peak that day. her conclusion is that she adopted in (2006) the psychology of the victim and used the mechanism of intimidation of the other in her election propaganda which secured them re-election (2010) despite knowing that they were corrupt . This is not an accusation or a statement from the streets, but the confessions of senior officials, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who said in Basra (February 22, 2017) to spend seven trillion dollars. Iraqi dinars on projects from which nothing was drawn. achieved ! In an explicit accusation addressed to his predecessor, Mr. Nuri al-Maliki, who said publicly: “I have corruption files if I exposed them, I would turn them upside down. And we asked him at the time: For the sake of Imam Hussein on you .. Did you fear for the people or did you become certain that if you denounced the corrupt and the sons of officials among the opponents .. they denounce the big corrupt in your party? .. and he did not answer. The ugliest thing is that both of them (Al-Maliki and Al-Abadi) did not hold the corrupt accountable nor reclaim from them what they looted of sufficient wealth to build a country that emerged from a catastrophic war. Morally ugliest is that they promised their masses to live in dignity and abandoned it, lost their credibility, and left the millions of Shiites who brought them to power live in slums, and thirteen millions Iraqis below the poverty line as recognized by the ministry. of planning, as they lead luxurious lives and buy luxury villas and apartments in cities around the world after being destitute.

Investigation

It’s our habit to ask for opinions on such issues, so we asked this question:

(All the political parties of Islam in Arab countries have lost power except Iraq, what do you think are the reasons?)

More than 700 respondents, including academics and media professionals, participated in the survey. After analysis, their responses were distributed as follows:

The nature of Iraqi society

The first reason Islam’s political blocs and parties remained in power in Iraq was because Iraqis are controlled by bigotry, lack of conscience, backwardness, ignorance, superstitious thinking, and laziness. flattery, and the lack of collective national consciousness in Iraq. .

Power parties

The blocs and parties of political Islam in Iraq own enormous wealth in legitimate and illegitimate ways, and use political money to buy debts and employ those who give them their vote in state institutions they share. by quotas, as well as their control over independents, in particular the Commission and the Federal Court, to legitimize their actions.

Weak state

The lack of law and the intimidation of these parties with their armed factions and militias… was the third reason for the survival of these parties.

External interference

External interference was the last reason for the survival of these parties, and respondents identified them as follows:

– Iraq is under the protection of America, and he wants to weaken it to bring it to normalization because it is he who allowed the political parties of Islam to take power, and through comprehensive imperialist planning with the Israeli Mossad.

– Iran is the first actor in Iraq, and these parties will stay as long as the Iranian regime exists.

Psychopolitical analysis

The poll results identified the reasons that allowed Islamic blocs and political parties to remain in power in Iraq, but they did not indicate what would complete the answer and improve the interpretation.

The psychological problem that the leaders of these parties suffer from is that they consider themselves (victims) of the dictatorial regime. From this victim psychology, they feel like they are (entitled) to monopolize power and wealth, considering millions of Iraqis at home either loyal to the tyrannical regime or enslaved .. and that in their opinion they do not ‘have no legitimacy for citizenship rights. divided it fearlessly, as they isolated themselves logistically and psychologically in an area of ​​10 square kilometers, fortified by security and feared by the state embassy that overthrew the dictator’s regime and officially recognized, that it is an occupied country. And as a result of all of these psychological interactions, the politician has turned into a tyrannical ruler. And tyranny psychologically means the feeling of fear of the leader which turns into anxiety, which degenerates into a state of terror in the face of danger threatening his personal and legal existence.

The problem with the leaders of these psychological parties is also that they suffer from (strabismus), a term that we have introduced into Arab psychology and which means that its owner divides people into two groups (us and them), and that his control over her thinking forces her to close her eyes to the negatives of her group and exaggerate its positives, and works The opposite is with the other group. he is a partner in them. In addition to their mental transformation, this pushes them to make their criterion of proximity and loyalty to them, not of experience and competence, because of which Iraq has lost thousands of spirits who have emigrated from where he was He can build a homeland which has all the ingredients for its inhabitants to live in luxury.

Psycho’s intellectual problem is political: the thinking windows of the leaders of these parties are closed to any ideas that contradict their past beliefs, and because of this, they lack insight and political acumen, especially in Iraq. Although Islam is based on (consultation) and not on democracy, the Ennahda movement in Tunisia rebelled against the Egyptian model (Morsi government) by forming a coalition with two secular parties on the day of its electoral victory. Morocco by forming a coalition-type government … and yet they failed! Because (their mental shift) forced them to forge alliances with deep countries affiliated with powerful outside forces that ensure their survival in power in exchange for conditions that the people and the country would pay for.

And salvation … how will it be?

Our present … was lost in its choices after the jump of October 2019, where the choice was clear and specific to the establishment of a State of civil institutions. Although the elections of October 10, 2021 did come in application of the October demand to be the Iraqis’ choice towards change, the boycott of national and progressive forces gave the opportunity for Islamic parties to win The political situation in Iraq is governed by a psychological reality, namely that Islam’s political parties are united by fear of people, while forces for change are divided by selfishness The recent fall of Islamic political parties in the Arab world.

Quoted from “The Range”