Well put article
Well put article
When we talk about colonialism, most people immediately think of European powers carving up Africa, Asia, and the Americas — forcing their languages, cultures, and religions onto native peoples. Fair enough.
But there’s a far older, far more successful form of colonialism that almost no one dares to call out: Islam.
Islam is, by every definition, an imperialist project that obliterated countless cultures, nations, and languages across the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and beyond — and did it so effectively that most of its victims today don’t even realize they were colonized.
[Source](https://medium.com/@relentlessreasoning18/islam-is-hardcore-colonialism-the-erasure-no-one-talks-about-2e598d43500d)
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When we talk about colonialism, most people immediately think of European powers carving up Africa, Asia, and the Americas — forcing their languages, cultures, and religions onto native peoples.
Fair enough.
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But there’s a far older, far more successful form of colonialism that almost no one dares to call out:
Islam.
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Islam is, by every definition, an imperialist project that obliterated countless cultures, nations, and languages across the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and beyond — and did it so effectively that most of its victims today don’t even realize they were colonized.