Neo-Salafism

Neo-Salafism is the imagined ideology of an expansionist totalitarian and technologically advanced formidable state found in a fictional alternate history scenario for WW4 and after, by User:Rayz9989.

History
The ideology in its baby stages was the cause of both the relatively minor World War 3 and extensive and grueling World War 4 in the story of the Alternate Future Scenario Post-WW4 Space Race. At first, the Salafist sect of Islam was cast out from Saudi Arabia and its constituents as it had warmed up to the West (United States and allies), but it had become increasingly insurrectionist and violent, with reforms made that distanced it from the original religion, eventually leading it to be widely recognized by the world as a new extremist cult-like religious movement called Neosalafism.

It first began to threaten the world as whole after stolen confidential advanced technology of several nations was used by the movement with the first ever incidence of mind control in that reality causing some important scientists to defect. With this, a powerful nation emerged in the Middle East, specifically in the Levant, Iraq, and Syria called the Salafi Caliphate, this was the nation that followed the ideology of Neo-Salafism. Branches and splinters aiming to unite with the main counterpart emerged in other parts of the world, and Neo-Salafism emerged immensely successful at one point threatening to destroy the last beacon of the Muslim world, the Hejaz, but at this point the Empire began to be cornered in and had lost most of its gains, and Anti-Salafist forces eventually pushed out and trapped the Neo-Salafists, destroying them and bringing WW3 to an end. The war last for a couple decades, and although most citizens were liberated from the brainwashing and mind control, the Neo-Salafists had done, some still stayed and the movement was far from extinguished. Particularly, the Asian branch is where the religion had particularly taken hold, and after a revolution in Central Asia, a new Salafist Caliphate was established, leading to WW4, which had many more factions and a divided world, making opposing the Neo-Salafists a more complex matter.

However, the conclusion to WW4 was not as bright, as the Salafist Empire had a practice of resource drain and desolation of the lands it conquered, using the control it had over the people to perform mass exodus, leaving lands completely barren of people and concentrating them in their important lands leading to the modern brand of Neo-Salafism which aims to heavily optimize and maximize the number of people under the control of the state so that their deity can receive as much worship and forced devotion as possible. WW4 unfortunately dragged on for centuries until a peace treaty was signed between the nations of the world who realized that the conflict has come to standstill and factions could not defeat one another, they had become equals. Thus, they sought instead to take lands elsewhere than a full claimed Earth, each developing space forces and colonizing the cosmos at last after centuries of war in the hopes that they would be successful than the others.

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