That is a misinterpretation caused by the Europeans, the moon and the star is a Turkic symbol. The countries that use it on their flags have Turkic history in their lands.
It does in fact represent a moon god, but it is not Islamic.
Europeans just use that symbol to label all Muslims as one since they historically had more dealings with the Ottoman empire (a Turkic empire) more than any other.
That symbol can be found in mosques in Turkey, Syria and any other land that was part of the Ottoman empire. In Iran that symbol isn't really used neither for Morocco. (I can't speak on any other Muslim land because I have not been there.) Arabs don't even rep the moon on their flags. They usually got Arabic script on their flags.
Not all Muslims are Arabs and not all Arabs are Muslims, but the original Islamic teaching is an Arab way of life.
We could also get technical and say not every "Arab" is an Arab, but rather many of the modern day Arabs are arabized cultures. The people of the Levant (Assyrians, Babylonians) and north Africa all had their own culture and language but lost it due to Islam. Some more than others. The real Arabs are from Jordan, Arabia, Yemen, Oman and all those little states in that region.
I won't get any deeper into details but we could say Arab is an umbrella term for a bunch of different cultures. Same with Iranians and Turkics
Iranians =/= Arabs =/= Turkics
Original Arabs were Bedouin nomads, so Islam is is a very tribal religion so tribal/nomadic cultures adopted it easily, but civilized people were forced in violently.
Though the forced people would usually mix in their culture with Islam to form new branches.
Historically the Arabs only really had one great dynasty, the Umayyads, that was after the prophets death and their swift expansion.
Afterwards there was a revolt from Iranian muslims and they installed the Abbasid dynasty.
That was basically a Persian/Arab empire. They used Persian way of politics. It was this form of Islam that was spread and introduced into central and south Asia.
I could go on and on about this, but ill keep this condense. (this is already a wall of text)
There never was any super "caliphate" the muslim world was always fragmented into different empires.
Anyways we can sum up the history into two eras, the golden age and post mongols. reached their golden age about 2 centuries after the shit started.
The golden era came about two centuries after the shit started. Muslim scholars (mostly Iranians) helped advance science, mathematics, philosophy and arts. They translated many works of the ancient Greeks into Arabic, but all of that pretty much went to shit after the Mongols invaded.
The Europeans picked up where the Muslims left off and advanced science at this point.
After the Mongol empires fragmented the Muslim world was pretty much warring states, but most of the rulers were Turkic warlords.
Three big Turkic empires were formed at this time, but or main focus here is the Ottoman empire.
The Ottomans had the Levant, the Balkans, Arabia, and parts of north Africa.
Now to explain modern day fuckery.
Arabs have been under Turkic and Iranian rule for centuries.
Around the 1800's, an Arab called Wahhab invented Salafism (aka wahabism) which long story short is an anti-Iranian, anti-Turkic, anti-nonarab Ideology.
They basically believe that all forms of Islam are corrupt and that theirs is the truth. And that all places of worship must be destroyed and all infidels killed. (you guessed it, this is what Isis practices)
Now this is were shit gets deep.
The Saudi tribe used this new religion as a means to go to war with other tribes and the Ottomans.
The British saw this as an opportunity to weaken the Ottomans so they funded the Saudis. This is where their marriage began.
The Saudis kept expanding in Arab lands and pushed Arab nationalism onto the other tribes, this internal conflict weakened the Ottoman empire. Which later got dissolved into British and French colonies.
Not all lands were colonized though, the Arabs had a deal where they would have their own kingdom.
Keeping our focus on western Asia, the British and French carved out Iraq and Syria for their respective colonies. They purposely carved out the land to have 3 major ethnic groups and put a minority in charge.
It is a great divide and conquer strategy that worked in Africa during colonialism.
Syria is majority Sunni, but they let Shi'a run it. Iraq is majority Shi'a but they let Sunni run it.
Kurds are minorities in both end. This was a seed for future chaos that we see today.
Back to the Saudi Arabs,
they had the backing from the west and all that oil money so they started to spread their fucked up ideology across the land. In most poor countries and regions they would open up schools but would also force their religion as well.( I read this in a mossad briefing lol)
They opened the most schools in Algeria, Pakistan and took advantage of the downfall of the USSR and opened up shop in Chechenya and central Asia.
These kids were brainwashed into this fucked up ideology. Now whats even scarier is that there are branches in western countries.
I know people from Syria and they told me their cousins got their house robbed by Isis and that they were Australians.
My parents are from Iran and they never forced religion on me. I grew up in Quebec not knowing about my culture or religion. I am muslim by birth but I don't even know how to pray or the holidays or none of that.
Out of thirst for knowledge of self I took some university classes and also read a few books on various topics of the region. I started with Iranian history but got into the neighboring countries as well.
Ultimately I feel that religion is a personal matter and anyone enforcing their beliefs on others is a cunt. (Atheists included)
To conclude,
The real problem to the whole region is not really religion but miss-education and lack of stability. Syria had a civil war before this one that has been going on for five years now and we all know Iraq has had a few wars.
Every time such an event took place people fled to other countries. Usually the ones to get out first are the rich and educated. The lack of stability also makes people care more about basic needs then pursuing school and a career.
Afghanistan is a perfect example, they were a British colony, had a war for freedom then had another war due to Russian invasion and then another war due to Americans. That's like 70 years of turmoil, how do you expect people to want to be civil if all that they and their father know was warfare and basic survival.
After such a brain drain all that's left is poor city people and uneducated farmers. Can you really blame them for being a few years behind us.
And sure, we could play the blame game since most of those wars were caused by the west and Russia, but Muslims put themselves in a bad position themselves.
The pivotal point was a few centuries ago. Europeans pushed for literacy for the masses, so it helped the peasant class elevate and created a notion of individualism everyone could read the bible so people could form their own opinions about it.
The Muslims on the other hand opted to keep the peasant class dumb and only let the elite become literate. Also Imams and Sheiks would be religious leaders so people would ask them to solve problems and answer questions about religion. The lack of literacy and always asking a superior for help made them mentally lazy.
For example Iran and Turkey pushed literacy on the masses heavily after ww1 and sadly some countries still have a lot of illiterate people. So the Muslim world is still catching up.
Think about how the culture changed in the past century. The ww2 vets were rugged guys, then came the hippies and then everyone sorta got more and more gay and socially accepting of anything. Womans rights, racial equality and gay rights are all fairly recent notions.
It's obvious all this modern SJW shit would not fly with the America of the 40s, so how do you expect these 3rd world traumatized villagers to adopt modern ideals formed by 3 generations of stability and peace instantaneously ?
Also imagine if America was controlled by black people and that you guys ran out of freedums and the dollar was shit so everyone was super poor and all the rich white folks moved to Europe already. So all you got is the black minority and an oppressed white majority and Mexican Minority. (lets forget about everyone else for simplicity)
Now most of the educated and rich people left the country, all you got is middle class folks and rednecks. Now do you really think the rednecks aren't going to snap and fuck shit up ?
I am not aiming this at you directly, I just wanted to edumacate and enlighten anyone willing to learn.
I actually had a term paper to write but ended up surfing this forum out of procrastination and ended up writing a term paper here.
