ABSTRACT
Two extreme interpretations of the invasion of Iraq or the liberation from Saddam Hussein come to mind. On the one hand one may argue that the Second Iraqi War is basically a rerun of the Western conquest of Arabia after the fall of the Ottoman Empire or a repetition of the American involvement in Iran after the Second World War. To Max Weber Muslim inferiority was expressed in weak economic performance and had its basic root cause in the religion of Mohammed, which was at odds with the requirements of modern capitalism. The Muslim civilisation is going through a period of turbulence both inside its countries and in the external relations with countries from other civilisations. Sufism is the mystical orientation inside Sunni Islam. A person who belongs to Sufism, is called a Sufi. Nearly all Sufis are men.
