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1. The Geopolitics of Islamism
Iakovos Alhadeff
Before WW1 (1914-1918) the Islamists of Africa were supported by the
alliance of Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. That makes perfect
sense because the Germans and the Austrians wanted to use the Ottoman
Caliphate, which was their ally, in order to promote Pan-Islamism in Africa
as a means of attacking the English and the French who were controlling
Africa. The Germans had almost zero influence in Africa.
Map 1 German Empire, Empire of Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire

2. Map African Colonies ( French colonies with light green and British
colonies with pink)

3. http://empathosnationenterprises.com/empAthosWebGraphics/AfColony.gif
However the English and the French won WW1, and not only they did not
lose Africa, but they also gained the Middle East, which until then was an
Ottoman colony. Iraq and Palestine (Israel+Jordan) went to the British
sphere of influence, and Syria and Lebanon went to the French sphere of
influence.

4. Map British-French and Russians Zones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes
%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement#/media/File:Sykes-Picot.svg
With green on the above map you can see the part that would go to Russia.
But Russia did not get her share because the Germans created the Russian
Communist Party, and they used the Russians Communists against the

5. Tsarist army. With the help of Germany and Austria the Communists won,
and they left the war giving large parts of Russian territory to the Germans,
the Austrians and the Ottomans as a payment. See “Germany’s Role in the
Rise of Lenin”.
https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/winston-churchill-on-the-german-
support-to-lenin-and-russian-communism/
Map
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6. Therefore we should not be surprised that until WW2 the geopolitics of
Islamism remains the same, since the British and the French increased their
influence in the Muslim World, and Germany was still trying to support the
Islamists as a means of fighting them.
That’s why Hitler continued the Kaizer’s policy and he collaborated with the
Muslim Brotherhood, which was established in Egypt in 1928 by an
enthusiastic Hitler admirer Hassan al-Banna. During the 1920s Kemal
Ataturk destroyed Islamism in Turkey, and he made Turkey a secular state.
Moreover, after the ruins of WW1, Kemal Ataturk wanted Turkey to have a
balanced position towards Germany and the West. Therefore Turkey could
no longer be used by Germany as a springboard to support Pan-Islamism in
the Middle East and Africa against the English and the French.
In other words what the Ottoman Caliphate did for Germany during WW1,
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt did for Hitler during WW2. See “The
Alliance Between Hitler and the Muslim Brotherhood”.
https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/the-alliance-between-hitler-and-the-
muslim-brotherhood/
That’s the situation until the end of WW2. After WW2 Germany is
destroyed and the Soviet Union becomes the main opponent of the West.
The Soviets will mainly support the socialist dictators in the Muslim World,
and these dictators will gradually overturn the pro-Western monarchs in
Algerian, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria.

7. When the socialists will rise to power in the Muslim countries it will be the
turn of the Westerners to taste the benefits of supporting the Islamists
against their enemies. With the help of Saudi Arabia the West will fight the
pro-Soviet socialist dictators, and with the help of the Islamists the
Americans will fight the Soviets when the Soviets will invade Afghanistan
(1979-1989).
But things are a lot more complicated now. In 1979 radical Islamists will
take control of Iran, and there will be Islamists who are supported by Iran
and fight the West, and there will be Islamists who are supported by Saudi
Arabia and fight the Soviets.
After the fall of the Soviet Union the Americans will try to send the oil and
natural gas of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean, which would hurt all the
Islamists of the Persian Gulf. China will allow Western companies to go to
China, and China will rise, and will start importing more and more oil from
the Persian Gulf. The American oil and gas production will increase
tremendously, and the Americans will reduce their imports from the Persian
Gulf. The Turks want the cheap natural gas of Russia, and Iran and Russia
will support the Turkish Islamists who will come to power in 2002. It seems
that now it is a lot more difficult for the Americans to cooperate with the
Islamists.
But the Muslim Brotherhood still spends huge amounts of money in Europe
and United States in order to buy communists. But most of the time the
countries that support the Muslim Brotherhood i.e. Qatar, Iran and Turkey,
will use these Communists against United States and Europe, and in order to

8. promote their own interests. Qatar is supposed to be the ally of the United
States, and it spends billions on American politicians. But Qatar has, at least
indirectly, funded many terrorist attacks against the United States.
Now Erdogan dreams of creating again the Ottoman Caliphate, and he wants
Turkey to regain her lost territories in the Middle East. But this time the
Germans and the Ottomans are not friends anymore. The Germans are
promoting the Russian-German pipelines i.e. Nord Stream, and the
Ottomans are promoting the Southern Energy Corridor, the Qatar-Turkey,
the Iran-Turkey and the Turk Stream pipelines, which are competing
pipelines to the German ones.
Map Germans VS Ottomans

9. The Russians have recently made an agreement with the Islamists of Turkey
against the United States. An alliance that reminds the alliance that was
formed in 1939 between the Nazis and the Communists against the British
and the French. The agreement between the Russians and the Islamists of
Turkey is targeting the Americans. Except that it is a lot worse than the
Nazi-Communist alliance, because the Nazis and the Communists in 1939
had a lot more in common, both in terms of ideology and in terms of
economic interests.
But now the Americans are also using the Islamists of Qatar against the
Russians. And the Russians are using the Islamists of Iran against the United
States. They are competing for influence over the Islamists, but it seems that
it is the Russians who are mainly benefiting from their alliance with the
Islamists.
The Chinese do not want direct involvement with the Islamists, because they
are afraid of the repercussions that this would have at their Muslim province
of Xin Jiang.
Things are not as clear as they were before. Until the end of WW2 it was
mainly the Germans who were to benefit mostly from the Islamists. After
the end of WW2 and the rise of the pro-Soviet socialist dictators it was
mainly the Americans who were to benefit from their alliance with the
Islamists. Now it seems that the Russians are the ones to benefit from their
alliance with the Islamists, due to the war between the United States and the
Islamic terror groups like Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS etc. Even though the

10. Muslim Brotherhood (Qatar) is spending huge amounts buying influence in
the United States.
But Russia is not a true ally of the Islamists, because Russia does not have
the same economic interests with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran and
Pakistan. And that’s why we compare the alliance between Russia and the
Islamists with the alliance between the Communists and the Nazis. Except
that it is even worse.