Saied frames Arab division and cultural weakness as Western-plotted conspiracies.
Evidence
During the 2023 Arab League summit, he addressed the Arab leaders saying that “the first priority (…) is to protect our [Arab] countries, because there are those who plan for their collapse (…) We welcome the return of Syria (…) to the Arab League after the conspiracy to divide it was foiled (…) And we have the same hope for an end to hostilities in Sudan, which they [the Western powers] divided into two in 2010; we do not want a third or fourth Sudan after this tragic war (…) And among our priorities (…) there is culture: without quality culture and education… and the spread of the values of tolerance, coexistence, and national pride, we cannot fortify our societies against those who want to divide them, the same ones who plan to divide our countries” (Watania Replay, 2023). — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 98
Categorization
- XREF: A near-textbook instance of the manufactured-external-enemy dynamic the reader studies—conspiracy of division stands in for a state-founding threat, binding Arab states against an outside plotters. — connects to: Each major Western Orientalist projected his own chosen weakness onto Islam. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 520
- SHARE: Worth flagging to anyone tracking manufactured-vs-primordial solidarity debates; this is a live, contemporary North African data point.
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Broader Connections
- Each major Western Orientalist projected his own chosen weakness onto Islam.
#qualifies(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 520