The power of the whole requires the weakness of the parts. All these divisions exist in Lebanon, the victim of civil war for more than fifteen years. Political divisions are usually the outcome of such fragmentation like civil war in Algeria between FIS and the Army, in Afghanistan between the Talebans and the government. Chechan and Georgia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, etc., borders conflicts between states in Africa, Ethiopia and Eritrea, tribal genocide in Rwanda, mass killing in Congo, etc. Regional co-operation is weak.
Arab summits are inefficient.
The Arab common market is in stalemate since half a century. Islam is described in Western mass-media as a substitute to communism and the red threat coming from the East before the collapse of socialist regimes in 1991. The West needs an enemy, to justify its use of power and legitimize its direct or indirect aggression. Islam is linked to violence, terrorism, bloodshed, civil wars, backwardness, poverty of the majority and opulence of the elite, ignorance, drought, hunger, violation of human rights, torture, imprisonment, prejudices against women, social oppression, political dictatorship, severe penal code, traditionalism, persecution of intellectuals, writers and artists, etc. Globalization expressing the one-polar world as another new world order does not tolerate any challenge even in potentia and in the future of any resistance or even reluctance to be a part of the global world.