Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Conspiracy theories are a prevalent feature of Arab culture and politics. Prof. Matthew Gray writes they \"are a common and popular phenomenon.\" \"Conspiracism is an important phenomenon in understanding Arab Middle Eastern politics ...\" Variants include conspiracies involving colonialism, Zionism, superpowers, oil, and the war on terrorism, which may be referred to as a War against Islam. Roger Cohen theorizes that the popularity of conspiracy theories in the Arab world is \"the ultimate refuge of the powerless\", and Al-Mumin Said noted the danger of such theories in that they \"keep us not only from the truth but also from confronting our faults and problems...\"Gray points out that actual conspiracies such as the British-French-Israeli 1956 Suez Crisis encourage speculation and creation of imagined conspiracies. After the 1967 war, conspiracy theories became popular. The war was perceived as a conspiracy by Israel and the US—or its opposite: a Soviet plot to bring Egypt into the Soviet sphere of influence. Thomas Friedman notes the numerous conspiracy theories concerning the Lebanese civil war. They \"were usually the most implausible, wild-eyed conspiracy theories one could imagine ... Israelis, the Syrians, the Americans, the Soviets, or Henry Kissinger—anyone but the Lebanese—in the most elaborate plots to disrupt Lebanon's naturally tranquil state.\""@en }
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- Conspiracy_theories_in_the_Arab_world abstract "Conspiracy theories are a prevalent feature of Arab culture and politics. Prof. Matthew Gray writes they \"are a common and popular phenomenon.\" \"Conspiracism is an important phenomenon in understanding Arab Middle Eastern politics ...\" Variants include conspiracies involving colonialism, Zionism, superpowers, oil, and the war on terrorism, which may be referred to as a War against Islam. Roger Cohen theorizes that the popularity of conspiracy theories in the Arab world is \"the ultimate refuge of the powerless\", and Al-Mumin Said noted the danger of such theories in that they \"keep us not only from the truth but also from confronting our faults and problems...\"Gray points out that actual conspiracies such as the British-French-Israeli 1956 Suez Crisis encourage speculation and creation of imagined conspiracies. After the 1967 war, conspiracy theories became popular. The war was perceived as a conspiracy by Israel and the US—or its opposite: a Soviet plot to bring Egypt into the Soviet sphere of influence. Thomas Friedman notes the numerous conspiracy theories concerning the Lebanese civil war. They \"were usually the most implausible, wild-eyed conspiracy theories one could imagine ... Israelis, the Syrians, the Americans, the Soviets, or Henry Kissinger—anyone but the Lebanese—in the most elaborate plots to disrupt Lebanon's naturally tranquil state.\"".