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30 - History
University of Ulster
Kommunismus, Islam und die US-Außenpolitik zu Beginn des Kalten Krieges
(Communism, Islam and US foreign policy in the early Cold War).
The article situates US attitudes toward Islam and communism in the context of the ‘religious cold war’ and explores the role the US accorded religion in general and Islam as a bulwark against the spread of communism and Soviet influence in the early Cold War. It shows how the West’s current conflict with militant Islam can be traced back to the 1940s/1950s, when Truman and Eisenhower invoked the universal tradition of harnessing the power of religion to the policy goals of the state, with consequences conditioned by the special religious characters of American and Muslim cultures.