Baghdad, when it fell in April 2003, was the first domino to tumble in the religious conflict that has spread throughout the entire Middle East. This was followed by the rise of a religious identity that is at odds with its counterparts on the one hand, and with other partial identities of other Middle Eastern communities on the other.
The fall of Baghdad set in motion the enormous momentum of fundamentalist projects that had gathered force over more than a century in the Middle East. These projects were critical of the liberal Western model, describing it as blasphemous from a religious perspective, imperialist from a leftist perspective or as both from the perspective of revolutionary Islam, which combines religious fundamentalism with a left-wing approach. The fronts of the conflict between those forces soon opened, and the destruction of the world came at the hands of the new gods, according to the Lebanese philosopher Ali Harb.
