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International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies
ISSN: 2028-9324     CODEN: IJIABO     OCLC Number: 828807274     ZDB-ID: 2703985-7
 
 
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American Orientalism, Religion and the 2003 War on Iraq


Volume 41, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 173–181

 American Orientalism, Religion and the 2003 War on Iraq

Hamid Kbiri1

1 Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

Original language: English

Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract


The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the central role of religion has played in the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, especially when examined through the prism of Orientalism’s nexus with war. Drawing on postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis, the paper shows that religion has been at the core of the Orientalist discourses and practices that have been used to justify and mobilize for the 2003 intervention. Second, it proves that religion, both as a ‘sincere’ driver and propaganda tool, has been an important factor in the attainment of the political and popular consensus about the war within the United States and with ‘willing’ allies. And last, it reveals how the religion of the ‘Other’ was used to cast any resistance of Iraqis to the invasion as arising from exclusively religious/cultural motivations, in contradistinction to the secular/rational Americans who wage war for purely political ends.

Author Keywords: Religion, War, Orientalism, Iraq, Global War on Terror, Resistance.


How to Cite this Article


Hamid Kbiri, “American Orientalism, Religion and the 2003 War on Iraq,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 173–181, November 2023.