Against amnesia While many cheer and clap in and for the World Cup and while some were outraged by the ‘banning’ of alcoholic in stadiums, let’s not forget the criminal role of Qatar and Qatar-based media and business entrepreneurs in the destruction of Syria. “Rather than using ‘static categories’ (Fujii, 2009, p. 8), such as ‘sectarianism’ and ‘militarism’, I examined processes of ‘sectarianisation’ and ‘militarisation’ to adequately analyse dynamic socio-political phenomena. In dynamic settings (such as genocide, social movement, revolution, and civil war), static categories cannot fully capture actors' shifting relations, behaviours, discourses, perspectives, motives and identifications, nor can they capture the endogenous sources of changes.” Boundary making and sectarianisation in Syria 2011-2013
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51