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The parts relevant to colonialism begin herehttps://twitter.com/GleamingRazor/status/1063560239377784833?s=19 …

See this thread. Colonised women were little more than sexual escapades for criminals escaping Europe, criminals who found status and wealth in the colonies.https://twitter.com/GleamingRazor/status/1060639202457595906?s=19 …

Whether it was the Conquistadors, the East India Company or today's American army, the worst of men have led the expansion of empire simply because they were scummy enough to endure harsh living but with the upside of being able to rape and murder at will.

The frontiersmen of western imperialism are mainly rapists and murderers looking to carry out their worst fantasies outside of their homelands where they can escape the law. Governors and administrators accept this trade for the sake of expanding the empires frontier.https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1063738811216211968 …

maybe if your entire governing apparatus can't deliver on something, it might mean that it is... undeliverablehttps://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1062749872162529281 …

Or the predominant idea of Islam coming to destroy everything before it in a great monocultural cleansing. Rather, Islam is fitra, an attempt to bring man to what is most natural after having been corrupted. It is a *return* to the creed of Adam, Ibrahim and Nuh as.

"The Madinan State", even though the Rashidun Caliphate was a polity wholly unlike the modern state. Islam as "ideology", even though ideology is narrow and doesn't entirely encompass what Islam is, and how it is manifested (through culture, socio-economic conditions etc).

Being people of their time, it was the only language they knew to resist capitalist imperialism, as socialism was the predominant alternative. These thinkers sought to make relevant to the struggle by adopting this language for their own means, but with adverse effects.

One way in which this is done is the language of revolution, progress and paradigm shifts that mark much of the 20th century Islamic thinkers' approach to Islamic history. They unconsciously adopted the language of socialist revolt to capitalist-imperialism.

The lens of ideology is extremely powerful. Writers hoist their own worldview on to the past through history books that then shape how future generations look back on the story of man.

Damn, everyone is making so much money off performing for the Right. Majid Nawaz, Tommy Robinson, Ayaan Hirsi, and the rest of their ilk. Tempted to pursue their career path for a few years, make millions in donations, book deals and city tours then retire comfortably.