Green Belt Theory

The Green Belt Theory or hypothesis (Persian: نظریه کمربند سبز, romanized: nazariye kamarband sabz), is a kind of conspiracy theory found in Persian sources.[1][2][3] It explains the Western world's series of efforts in some countries to regenerate religion in their societies and make a strong preventive belt against the Soviet Union at the time. It supposedly starts with establishing religious schools in India[4] and continues with supporting religious governments in Pakistan in the 1940s. It resulted in the arming of religious groups in Afghanistan, in the 1980s.[5]

Map of the Islamic world, shaded green. The "Green Belt Theory" states that the Western powers aimed to strengthen Islamic regimes as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

Background

From the nineteenth century, Lord Curzon brought with him a strategy of creating "a Moslem nexus of states" in the Middle East as a shield to ward off Russian expansion.[Fromkin 1] He proposed to take advantage of the situation by putting his British-sponsored Moslem nexus of states into place, When the Bolshevik Revolution brought about Russia's withdrawal from her forward positions. That nexus would have been a line across the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire through the Persian Empire to the khanates and emirates of Central Asia and Afghanistan in the nineteenth century.[Fromkin 2]

References
  1. نیشابوری, سرهنگ نصرالله توکلی; Tavakoli-Nishabouri, Nasrollah (21 March 2014). آخرین سقوط آریاها، خاطرات اولین رئیس ستاد ارتش پس از انقلاب: Memoirs of Nasrollah Tavakoli, The First Chief of Staff of the Iranian Army after the Islamic Revolution. Ibex Publishers. ISBN 9781588140982. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. میرزادگی, شکوه (15 May 2015). معجزه‌ی تو. H&S Media. ISBN 9781780834924 – via Google Books.
  3. Nahavandī, Hushang; نهاوندی, هوشنگ (24 May 2018). خمینی در فرانسه: Khomeini dar France. Ketab.com. ISBN 9781595842770 – via Google Books.
  4. Hardaker, Glenn; Sabki, Aishah Ahmad (14 September 2015). "Islamic pedagogy and embodiment: an anthropological study of a British Madrasah". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 28 (8): 873–886. doi:10.1080/09518398.2014.917738. S2CID 144612964.
  5. Hardaker, Glenn; Sabki, Aishah Ahmad (30 November 2014). "Islamic Pedagogy and Embodiment: An Anthropological Study of a British Madrasah". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 28 (8). Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  1. Fromkin, David (1989). A Peace to End All Peace (First Owl Books Edition 2001 ed.). New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC. p. 455. ISBN 978-0805088090.
  2. Fromkin, David (1989). A Peace to End All Peace (First Owl Books Edition 2001 ed.). New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC. p. 455. ISBN 978-0805088090.
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