If you believe that economics is only “part” of the issue in a conflict, it is a bit like believing that water is only part of why you get wet in the rain.
My preferred areas of study are Tafsir, Hadith and Fiqh; my academic area of study is political science. I hate the study of economics; but I realized that economics is the overarching issue in global power dynamics to which all other factors are subordinate, so I forced myself to study it.
The indisputable reality is that business and financial institutions have surpassed state power, and governments have become mere instruments in their hands. Approximately half of the largest economic entities in the world today are corporations, not states, not even groups of states. That economic power means political power, and it means military power. It means total control over policy.
Multinational corporations are the most powerful non-state actors on the global stage, and they eclipse the power of states. They operate according to a strictly totalitarian model, run by a handful of directors and exclusively dedicated to the interests of shareholders.. These shareholders are the new emperors, and they are embarking on a crusade to enslave the Muslim world. Egypt is crucial to their strategy for the conquest of Muslim Africa and the Middle East.
If you wonder where the battle of ‘aqeedah fits into this scenario, you are not thinking carefully. Their ‘aqeedah is that they are gods who must be worshiped; that they are supreme and infallible, and are the sole arbiters of right and wrong, good and bad, halaal and haraam; and we all exist to serve and obey and pay tribute to them. The statement “la ilaaha illa Allah” is an intolerable blasphemy to the Capitalist religion; and any system of life which denies their right to rule must be crushed.