The role of Islam in the current conflicts

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In a topic written here, the author showed the amount of wars that included Muslims as a fighting side :
http://atheistforums.org/thread-40072.html

In this topic, I will discuss the issue with more details, and shed the light on more than one point involving these conflicts.

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Intro :
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The author cited 16 of the deadliest conflicts within the article below, that involve Muslims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_on..._past_year

I would further go through the reason, why I think the claim is false that these war are derived from the Islamic faith.

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Reason 1 : The tribal nature of the regions
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If we counted the list from the top to the bottom, we'll find that all the conflicts "literally ; all" are happening due to tribal reasons, religion is only a paint the different tribes paint each other with, but the problem is in its core : tribal.

As an example :

1) Turkish/PKK conflict :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%...K_conflict
Quoting wikipedia :

The Turkey–PKK conflict[note] is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups,[56] which have demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent,

2)The Palestinian/Israeli conflict :
Quoting wikipedia:

Following the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, the Arab League decided to intervene on behalf of Palestinian Arabs, marching their forces into former British Palestine, beginning the main phase of the 

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3)War in Darfur (Nothan Sudan) :
Quoting wikipedia :

The War in Darfur is a major armed conflict in the Darfur region ofSudan, that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non- population

As we can observe, many of the conflicts took place for tribal reason. Religion was only the romantic symphony in the background, but it's all about bad blood between two or more tribes/nations. The classic Turkish/PKK conflict is the perfect example.

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Reason 2 : The distribution of natural recourses :
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Some of the conflicts, on the other hand, took place because of the natural distribution of recourses; the conflicts involving natural recourses are :

1)Libyan civil war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Cri...93present)
Quoting wikipedia :

a multinational coalition led by NATO forces intervened on 21 March 2011 with the aim to protect civilians against attacks by the government's forces.[10]

Since when, did the Schengen agreement included Libya ?
But searching in Libya's economy, we find :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Libya

Libya had seen fantastic growth rate, however these proved unsustainable in the face of global oil recession and international sanctions

2) American invasion of Iraq :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_(disambiguation)


Also, if we search in Iraq's economy, we find :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq
Quoting wikipedia :
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq]

's economy is dominated by the oil sector

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Reason 3 : United State's warmongering between different countries:
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The United States played a golden role in igniting many conflicts.
That way, the U.S can provide arm deals for both sides and win double from that war.

1) Syrian civil war & Saudi invasion of Yemen :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War

In the Syrian civil war, the United States supported the "opposition" until it grew strong, then, when opposition groups started to attack other countries, the U.S offered weaponry and military expertise to the surrounding countries.

Check those arm deals (some are with billions) that the U.S made, due to the Syrian conflict, the war in Yemen and the war against ISIS :

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015...en-weapons
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/i...a_20150904
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09...d-s05.html

Note, this tactic is not only used with Muslims. China is suffering from the same game.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...sales.html

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Conclusion :
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I leave it to you.