Khalid says "The fire of political Islam has been re-lit and being fanned with a vengeance by Israel itself. It only makes it stronger. Israel was a failed colonial settler experiment like all the previous colonial experiments its time too has come to an end."
Every time I see statements like this, I wonder how so many has forgotten that …
Khalid says "The fire of political Islam has been re-lit and being fanned with a vengeance by Israel itself. It only makes it stronger. Israel was a failed colonial settler experiment like all the previous colonial experiments its time too has come to an end."
Every time I see statements like this, I wonder how so many has forgotten that the Muslim empires were themselves colonial enterprises. I would argue that Mohammed himself would've been against these empires. The Quran specifically says that only defensive wars are justifiable, and I would argue that by most definitions he kept to this principle. It was only after he died that his successors jury-rigged an interpretation of the so-called sword passage to justify forcibly expanding their colonial empire. The only reason that Palestinians are Muslims today is that Muslims in what is today Saudi Arabia expanded their empire into the rest of the Middle East, then onto Africa and Asia. So the idea of Islamic Anti-Colonialism is rather Self Contradictory.
"So the idea of Islamic Anti-Colonialism is rather Self Contradictory."
Yep, absolutely. See also the often stated aim to spread sharia law all over the world. Just like the famously anti-colonial missionaries did. I've long since stopped looking for logical consistency in religious arguments. Or in ideological arguments of any sort.
Ideologues can't allow themselves to look at their actions or at history too closely. The hypocrisy is always too blinding.
Khalid says "The fire of political Islam has been re-lit and being fanned with a vengeance by Israel itself. It only makes it stronger. Israel was a failed colonial settler experiment like all the previous colonial experiments its time too has come to an end."
Every time I see statements like this, I wonder how so many has forgotten that the Muslim empires were themselves colonial enterprises. I would argue that Mohammed himself would've been against these empires. The Quran specifically says that only defensive wars are justifiable, and I would argue that by most definitions he kept to this principle. It was only after he died that his successors jury-rigged an interpretation of the so-called sword passage to justify forcibly expanding their colonial empire. The only reason that Palestinians are Muslims today is that Muslims in what is today Saudi Arabia expanded their empire into the rest of the Middle East, then onto Africa and Asia. So the idea of Islamic Anti-Colonialism is rather Self Contradictory.
"So the idea of Islamic Anti-Colonialism is rather Self Contradictory."
Yep, absolutely. See also the often stated aim to spread sharia law all over the world. Just like the famously anti-colonial missionaries did. I've long since stopped looking for logical consistency in religious arguments. Or in ideological arguments of any sort.
Ideologues can't allow themselves to look at their actions or at history too closely. The hypocrisy is always too blinding.