The Impact of Colonialism

Abdessalam Yassine

November 10, 2023

 The Impact of Colonialism

As noted above, Alfonso held out to the Moorish kings the rope with which they hanged themselves, intimidating them with his military might, demanding tribute, and using one group to strike at the others.

But all this is nothing more than a primitive subterfuge as compared with the stratagems of the current colonialists. In the days of Andalusia, although the military defeat and expulsion were certainly a heavy loss, at least the Muslims had a great civilization. The grave scandal of our times is the total retreat and debacle in the face of the West’s cultural, economic, and military invasion.

What makes this so acutely painful is that the invaders’ overwhelming superiority in the sciences, industry, economy, and military has exposed our vulnerability, our “colonizability” if you will, as Malek Bennabi (God have mercy on him) so deftly put it.

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