Pan-arabism

Gabal Abdel Nasser

Pan-Arabism has created an illusory sentiment of union in the Arab World regardless of the vast cultural and historical differences between the various Arab States.

Pan-Arabism had nothing to do with Islam. The only connection comes from a number of Arab Nationalist assertions from which Pan-Arabism was based. In those documents, the "Arab" is identified by language (Arabic), character (similar cultural norms and ideas), and religion (Muslim). However, this does not mean that Pan-Arab Nationalism has anything to do with Islam in a religious sense. It is only using Islam as a marker of identity (like the Census would).

Pan-Arabism has no relation to terrorism. Pan-Arabism is a secular ideology based on Nationalist doctrines and ethnic unity/hegemony. Terrorism (in the Arab World) is based on twisted perceptions of religious concepts like Jihad and Sacrifice for the Faith. The only commonality between these two movements was that they were both proposed in the same time and in the same place, (but by two very different groups of people).