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\nIranian-born award-winning author Reza Aslan
\ndiscussed his latest book Monday at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco.
\nPhotos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Fanny Dassie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

May 14, 2009<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI’s recent commentary suggesting religion is being exploited to fuel continuing wars is a concept familiar to award-winning author Reza Aslan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aslan, 35, who spoke Monday before a packed audience at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco to promote his latest book How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror<\/em>, discussed religious ideology and extremism and its destructive impact on the world.<\/p>\n

According to Aslan, the former Bush administration’s self-proclaimed “War on Terror” was never about terrorism. If it were, Aslan argues, the war would have included terrorist groups like ETA (Basque separatists), or the Iranian group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, for example. Instead, the US war on terror is specifically targeting Islam and Muslims, in areas of the world where the US has oil and gas reserve interests.<\/p>\n

“That is what it is. The war on Islam,” Aslan said. “That is how it was deliberately conceived and it was how it was consciously propagated.”<\/p>\n

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Aslan criticized the United States for failing to understand the differences between nationalist and non-nationalist Islamic groups and, in doing so; the number of Islamic enemies targeted has expanded to include nation states like Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

“We created an undifferentiated enemy,” he said.<\/p>\n

Aslan said Hezbollah in the Lebanon and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka are nationalist Islamic groups with a primary goal of advancing a narrow political agenda within their respective national borders. Al Qaeda and the Taliban, on the other hand, are Jihadist anti-nationalist groups, have no political agenda and believe in “quintessentially utopian ideologies.”<\/p>\n

Islamist groups want something very specific, Aslan said. “What they want may be unacceptable for us – but at least they want something. And if you want something, you can be talked to, you can be negotiated with.”<\/p>\n

By contrast, “Jihadists want nothing, absolutely nothing. They are not fighting a real war; they are fighting a war of the imagination that I call a ‘cosmic war.’” The Jihadists who attacked the US on September 11, 2001 were fighting a cosmic war, Aslan said.<\/p>\n

Jihadists’ “very sense of self and identity” is what drives them. Losing would amount to a “loss of faith” and is not part of the Jihadists’ equation.<\/p>\n

Aslan criticized former President George W. Bush for his cosmic worldview when he proclaimed the US would rid the world of evil. The use of evil in Bush’s speeches demonstrates that the US is also fighting a cosmic war, a war that cannot be won.<\/p>\n

“If a cosmic war is unlosable, unfortunately, it is also unwinnable,” he said. “It is a never-ending war.”<\/p>\n

“The war is between the cosmic forces of good and evil,” in which “god is believed to be directly engaged on one side against another,” Aslan said.<\/p>\n

Aslan said Bush’s rhetoric amounted to “an evangelical cancer.”<\/p>\n

“We have proved, unwillingly perhaps, their main argument which is that this is a war on Islam,” Aslan said. “We have turned the war on terror into a cosmic war.”<\/p>\n

Among the possible solutions proffered by Aslan include the promotion of democracy and political participation in the Middle East as a way to deal with nationalist groups.<\/p>\n

“Iran and Syria have to be treated like nation states,” Aslan said. “Iran is not a country on the verge of another political collapse. The Islamic Republic of Iran is here to stay, and the sooner we actually figure that out, the sooner we can deal with it, and hopefully change it.”<\/p>\n

Unlike Al Qaeda militants who use grievances as “abstract symbols to rally around” and who “have to be hunted down and destroyed,” nationalist groups have fundamental and legitimate grievances that the US needs to recognize before rapprochement is possible.<\/p>\n

“This is a window of opportunity that is fast closing,” Aslan cautioned. “We have to make sure that our actions begin to match our words.”<\/p>\n

Luke Thomas contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n

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