Running head: How the Persian Gulf Governments Spread Ignorance

How the Persian Gulf Governments Spread Ignorance

Mahdi Alabbas

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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The subject to which the paper shall correspond to is Agnotology; which is the making

and spreading of ignorance. As such, the paper shall address the issue of Agnotology and its

spread through explaining how the governments of Persian Gulf used the Culture obscurantism

in the societies. Addressing how Cultural obscurantism spreads ignorance. Such kinds of the

Persian Gulf governments are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Iran and Qatar among others.

Additionally, the paper shall also include an explanation of what role religious institutions play

in the spread of ignorance. Lastly, inculcating how the government used educational systems in

spreading ignorance.

How the governments of Persian Gulf used the Culture obscurantism in the societies

The governments of Persian Gulf used the Culture obscurantism in the societies in gaining

benefits to themselves. As such, these governments using the available resources in gaining favor

to them at the expense of the inhabited communities. For instance, as McKernan (2017) explains,

the Culture obscurantism is highly displayed when the Persian Gulfs governments impose

taxes on the financial resources of the Shia. The taxing was done with an aim of funding the

Saudi expansionism. Additionally, adding the need of maintaining efforts of international

diplomatic, especially due to the interests the British had explored in the Gulf countries.

The Culture obscurantism was highly backed up by the repressive policy towards the Shia. In

that through the policy, there was inculcation of forced conversion that faced criticism from the

communities not affiliated with Islamic deeds. Thereby, mandating for the conversion that called

those not of the Persian Guilt origin rejectionist (Khashan, 2017). A term applied since the

eight century by the government to various groups. However, used today as a general term.

While historically, the same governments have acted as arbiter between the influential and

non-influential Saudi clerics. Giraldi (2017) adds that arbitration simply implicated in protecting
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the Persian communities for the extreme demands from the international communities demands

that force conversion or execution of failing to adhere to the international demands of humanity

and citizenship; demands that have concurrently placated the people of the Persian Gulf.

The severity of the Culture obscurantism has however been fluctuating over years. Notably,

Kampmark (2017) outlines that leading to the communities of the Persian Gulf maintaining a

fraught historical relationship with other states. Hence, erupting in campaigns of civil

disobedience in nature; campaigns that leads to several occasions of protests. Demonstrations

which have led to both political, religious and economic discrimination.

Agnotology and its spread

Agnotology is the study of ignorance making, one that is lost and its forgotten. For instance, one

focus would be on ignorance making through knowledge that could have been but was not meant

to be, one that should have been but its not. As such, human beings are always not aware of the

structure and scope of the ignorance displayed before them. In that, ignorance does not just

become a blank space on the mental map of a person. There is coherence, contours or rules of

operation as well.

Notably, ignorance spreads through three main concepts. Concepts that human beings live

through from day to day. The first one is epistemology. Philosophers would like to talk about

knowledge, a field that is wholly devoted to a reflection that is tied to weighty conferences.

Epistemology being a field that is taught worldwide and in various academic platforms has

becomes a huge spread of ignorance. Epistemology is divided into two; both moral and socially,

unto which both are sacred and close to peoples heart. As such, epistemology becomes a

serious business.
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Secondly is through philosophy. Through philosophy, there is the realization that ignorance has

many friends as well as enemies. Likewise, ignorance figures big in everything from the

propagandas of trade association to military operations to the slogans that are chanted by

children. For instance, lawyers would often think about philosophy as it often surfaces in the tort

litigations and product liability. As such, indicating the many surrogates that ignorance has; one

that overlaps through censorship, apathy, forgetfulness, faith, stupidity and secrecy. Thereby,

through the popular rhetoric, ignorance would therefore find its way through a complex sexual

and political geography; complexity that bears exploration.

Thirdly is through deploration. Deploration spreads ignorance through rectification. Rectification

in the sense of having the need of correction where there is natural absence of adequate

knowledge that has not yet spread. Hereby, a founding principle of the liberal states as people

want to know things they would rather others have no knowledge about. The rights to privacy

that accords to themselves without sharing the same interest with others is sanctioned as

ignorance. A practical example of such exploration is that some of the liberal governments are

barred from knowing everything and in the quest of such, warranty must be granted. Another

example is in juries supposed to be kept ignorant as possession of certain knowledge or

information can depict biasness.

Role of religious institutions in spreading ignorance

Religious institution through the beliefs inculcated in their followers widely spread ignorance. In

most cases, religions do differ from culture. The separation of these two becomes a strong

conviction into which ignorance is spread. Religion in context also differs from themselves. For

instance, Christianity for ages has differed widely from Islamic religion. The difference in these

religions brings homogenizing effects as people tend to differ in these beliefs.

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The homogenization effects

The formatting that religious institutions have taken results is a double uniformization.

Uniformization that is towards the fundamental orthodoxy between different religions.

Formatting which has not always operated on the favor of fundamentalism. The kind of

fundamentalism encouraged by religious institutions creates the emergence of all differences

between the different religious sides that people to decide to take upon. Differences existing even

if uniformization become the result of optical illusions as opposed to the expected theoretical

convergence.

For instance, the different religions emulate different concepts such as those of festivals that are

supposed to be celebrated by those in the religion. Religious institutions have therefore

introduced religious festivals along the lines of Easters and Christmas for the Christian

community in which people of this denomination are not expected to work. The whole idea of

not working is typically in the line of Judeo-Christianity, an idea that is emulated by other

religious institutions as well.

Nevertheless, religious institutions fail to understand that the festive: part should not necessarily

be religious. Since in a holiday like Ashura and Easter, there is no festivity as the season is

supposed to mark a mourning period. Homogenization of religious festivals hence becomes

bolstered by secularization that is superseded by competition. Hence encouraging ignorance of

the followers of these religions in a huge way.

In contradiction to Science

In accordance to Ignatius (2016), it has been known all over that most religious institutions and

religious leaders do not take sides in scientific innovations and ideas. Most of the beliefs have

been contradicting with each other. With religion believing that nature should take place while
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science advocates for stimulation of processes or occurrences where necessary. Even in as much

as science would prove more than one times that an idea is a fact, one that would help the human

kind, religion always differ with such propositions. The rigidity in sticking and believing of

inherited ideas creates a paradox for followers of these religions setting up a certain mindset

(Rose and Marcos, 2017). Therefore, spreading ignorance through the lack of shedding light on

important pieces of information.

How the governments of Persian Gulf used educational system to spread ignorance?

The governments of Persian Gulf use educational system to induce and spread ignorance through

various platforms. Educational systems have been made to operate in specific ways that are

particular to how the governments want them to be. As such, the governments have set out

regulations on what kind of information is to be given to the students (Lepore, 2016). Hence

limiting the knowledge and exposure that the students are supposed to be accorded to.

The students in these educational systems therefore grow up inculcating the knowledge that has

been passed to them. Fang (2015) highlighting that much more considering the information that

is not possessed by them as nonexistent or nonfactual. Thereby, inducing and spreading

ignorance to both the facilitators and learners in these educational systems. Secrecy and

suppression of information becomes a major factor that spreads ignorance.

Secondly, as Karlova (2013) highlights, is through avoidable selectivity. These governments

have enhanced educational reforms that ensure avoidable selectivity. Learners in these

educational systems have been unknowingly subjected to avoidable selectivity. In that, they are

inculcated to beliefs that those ones opposing their Islamic beliefs are an enemy to their progress.

According to this system, those who follow the Islamic religion are the righteous one; leading to

natural aggression and discrimination against those who are non-Islam.

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As such, Karlin (2017) outlines that there is blocking any interaction between both Muslims and

non-Muslims. Hence spreading ignorance by the virtue of lack of engaging in interactive

sessions with people who are non-Islam. Thereby, creating a culture in which there is spread of

information within the same groups. There are no external influences that can influence any

rational of thinking whatsoever.

Thirdly as Honary (2015) explains is through debate manipulation and misrepresentation. The

government has carefully scrutinized the information found in all the available platforms. That

is, inclusive of academic websites, e-books, books and revision materials. In that, there has been

deliberate and careful omission of information considered standard on a global level. For

instance, pre-historical information that has placed the Persian Gulf countries on the negative

side of development have been omitted. In a way that learners are imparted with knowledge in

believing that their systems are right and justified and there should be no compromise.

The book Erotic Margin depicts that sharing and accepting of information from the western

would be a form of colonialism. Hence the preference of lacking of such information at ones

disposal. The book referred to unknowledge as the difference from ignorance in denoting the

socially constructed lack of knowledge; an absence of socially pertinent knowledge that is

conscious in nature. In the book, a term is used. The term is terra incognita that denotes the

reconstruction of parts of the globe that are uncharted territory. Instead of using such resources

as platforms of gaining information, subjection was made to colonialism (Raschke, 2015). The

production of unknowledge thereby became the transformation of those parts into potential

objects of western economic and political attention.

Conclusion
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Ignorance has been a factor that we live in but that is unaware to many. Ignorance, therefore,

exists in various forms. However, the countries in the Persia Gulf have widely acknowledged

and embraced ignorance in a wide way. Majorly through the governments which have used their

power in spreading ignorance. Additionally, ignorance has been seen to widely prevalent to the

Persian Gulf communities due to the kind of civilization in which the people live in. There have

been wide cases of discrimination, discrimination against those not of the religious affiliations.

Religious institutions and educational systems have therefore been largely affiliated to spreading

ignorance. As such, the objectives of the paper have been met. The paper has clearly outlined

how The Persian Gulf communities and governments have spread ignorance through the various

platforms that are available to them. Agnotology, which has been seen to be not entirely bad

should however be avoided.

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