RE: What's the Muslim's problem?
July 18, 2015 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2015 at 7:38 pm by Regina.)
I find it funny when people talk about "colonialism" in the context of Islam, considering Western Asia was actually one of the LEAST heavily colonised areas of the world;
![[Image: World_1914_empires_colonies_territory.PNG]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/World_1914_empires_colonies_territory.PNG)
Saudi Arabia and Iran (among the harshest Islamic regimes now) were not colonised by anyone. Most other places in West Asia that were colonised were by other Muslims (the Ottomans). North Africa was colonised by Europeans yet Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are (relatively speaking) less totalitarian.
And if you're going to argue "colonialism!" then why aren't Native Americans flying planes into buildings? I think we can all agree they are the race who have been well and truly the most FUCKED over by colonialism. Why aren't Non-Muslim Africans? Why Aren't Hindus? Why aren't the Vietnamese, who in LIVING memory just had their country bombed to bits by Western intervention? This is an almost uniquely Islamic problem.
I also fail to see what forcing women to wear body-bags and hanging apostates in city squares has to do with anger at the West.
Saudi Arabia and Iran (among the harshest Islamic regimes now) were not colonised by anyone. Most other places in West Asia that were colonised were by other Muslims (the Ottomans). North Africa was colonised by Europeans yet Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco are (relatively speaking) less totalitarian.
And if you're going to argue "colonialism!" then why aren't Native Americans flying planes into buildings? I think we can all agree they are the race who have been well and truly the most FUCKED over by colonialism. Why aren't Non-Muslim Africans? Why Aren't Hindus? Why aren't the Vietnamese, who in LIVING memory just had their country bombed to bits by Western intervention? This is an almost uniquely Islamic problem.
I also fail to see what forcing women to wear body-bags and hanging apostates in city squares has to do with anger at the West.
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