We still defend the policy of the West. We have neither capital nor industry, and they never want us to own them
Author: Farid Younes,
author of the book "Islamic Democracy"
Nationalism is a legacy of the West. The West reached the nation-state after bloody wars, and each country emerged from the yoke of empires, and each became a nation. Nationalism in the West had three main principles:
First, the general national idea;
Second, capital;
Third, industry;
These countries sought to colonize Muslim countries and for the better colonization and exploitation of Muslim countries united Muslims in the name of ethnocentrism, because in Islamic countries, neither from the point of view of nationalism nor from the economic point of view, nationalism does not exist. When Islamic countries fell under the yoke of Western countries because they had no nationalism, they turned to ethnocentrism. And the enemies of Islam took advantage of this ethnocentrism in their favor and sowed seeds of discord between ethnic groups and even divided them, and pursued a policy of "divide and conquer" with all its manifestations. Today in our countries, instead of saying that we are Muslims, we say that we are Afghans, we are Pakistanis, we are Iranians, we are Iraqis, and so on.
In Islamic countries, nationalism could not spread, because Islamic countries during the colonial period had neither capital nor industry - the two main elements of nationalism. The common denominator was Islam, which the West turned into ethnocentrism, and to this day we cannot come to our senses and are divided into parts.
Ethnic nationalism in Europe led to bloody wars that lasted even thirty years. The First and Second World Wars claimed the lives of millions of people, and perhaps the Third is coming.
Ethnocentrism, with which the West created wars between us, paved the way for discord and hostility in our countries, where we are all Muslims.
The people of Kurdistan want to have their own state, and they are Sunnis. The Pashtuns want their own country, and despite being Muslims, they do not want to share political power with other Muslims. Colonialism infused so much ethnocentrism into their blood and veins that they plunged the countries into backwardness, bigotry, and discrimination, and they killed everyone. Someone talks about separatism, someone about democracy, someone about politics, and someone about Wahhabi Islam, someone echoes every day that Ali should have become caliph, and you see all this enmity every day on screens.
This enmity was fueled by European nationalism under the name of ethnocentrism, in which we, in the name of religion and ethnicity, never became a nation. Namely, Europe, with the complicity of the traitorous Wahhabis, tore apart Ottoman Turkey. It was the betrayal of the British that made Ali Jinnah, the Indian traitor, the leader of Pakistan. It was British betrayal that divided the Pashtuns into both sides of the border, who are all Muslims. It was the betrayal of the West that separated Pakistan from the political body of India and shed the blood of thousands of people in the name of Hinduism and Islam.
We still defend the policy of the West. We have neither capital nor industry, and they never want us to own them, because then we will also have real nationalism, and it is here that the days of arrogant, colonial, and exploiting powers will be numbered.
There is neither nationalism nor ethnocentrism in Islam.
