Colonialism’s most notorious achievement was not that it occupied our lands, plundered our resources, and exploited our economies for its own interests. Its most notorious achievement was that, before leaving our lands, it succeeded in establishing an entire world within our minds, a mindset that continued to exist long after colonialist rule had formally ended. |
The armies withdrew, the colonialist flags came down, and new faces appeared in the halls of power. Yet the map created by colonialism remained. It was not merely the map that survived; so did the ideas, interests, identities, and dispositional distancing attached to it. |
At one time, regions that formed part of a broader political and civilizational whole were divided into separate entities by newly drawn borders. These nationalistic borders were then transformed from mere geographical lines into defining elements of identity. Gradually, a generation emerged for whom a person living on the other side of the nationalistic border, no matter how closely connected by language, religion, culture, or history, became a “foreigner.” |
Ghazwul Fikri or Ideological Battle is one of the methods founded by the West to destroy the Islamic ummah. This idea was created post-the Crusades where the battles that took place for three centuries never yielded any victory in the hands of Europe, the West instead suffered unequivocal defeats. 
