The Left in collobaration with Islamists have created a narrative of Islam as an anti-colonial force. Maybe so in the context of the West and Arabs.
But for non-Arab Muslims Islam is the colonizer. It erases people’s native traditions and identifies, replacing it with Arabism.
But for non-Arab Muslims Islam is the colonizer. It erases people’s native traditions and identifies, replacing it with Arabism.
Islam erases people’s names, replaces them with Arab nanes, erases traditions of their ancestors and their histories so they are left to glorify Arab traditions and history.
Their pilgrimage is replaced with the Arab pilgrimage spot, making them pray 5 times a day to Arabia.
Their pilgrimage is replaced with the Arab pilgrimage spot, making them pray 5 times a day to Arabia.
The Arab language becomes the “highest language” that they repeat mindlessly. The Arab battles and conquests become their battles.
Linking themselves to Arab ancestry such as Qureshi and Sayyid gives them great pride in the Islamic racial hierarchy of Arabs on top.
Linking themselves to Arab ancestry such as Qureshi and Sayyid gives them great pride in the Islamic racial hierarchy of Arabs on top.
This has them glorifying Islamic invaders who brutalized their ancestors, as Pakistanis do (even though many know their original jati names)
Left attacks on Hindu traditions helps in this fiction to convince themselves of Islam as “liberation” rather the colonization it is.
Left attacks on Hindu traditions helps in this fiction to convince themselves of Islam as “liberation” rather the colonization it is.
Fascinating. I hadn't actually read Naipaul on this, have been meaning to. But it looks like we reached the same conclusion.
