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Keyword: Colonialism

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Opinion

Time To Abandon Colonial Geography

Zafar Bangash

Sha'ban 09, 14442023-03-01

Western colonialism has inflicted immense damage on the lives of most people in Asia and Africa. Even geography has been colonized. Thus, meaningless labels like the ‘Middle East’ and ‘Far East’ have been coined to describe regions of the world to suit their purpose. Such distorted labels must be discarded.

News & Analysis

‘Civilized’ Barbarians

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 28, 14432022-03-01

Colonialism was of two kinds: one in which the European colonial powers occupied other peoples’ land for plunder and ultimately returned home. The second was permanent occupation such as in North America, Australia and New Zealand. This necessitated the genocide of indigenous people. We examine the Europeans’ genocide of Native peoples in North America.

News & Analysis

Militarization, Land-Grab, Demographic-Change, Medical Apartheid, Ecologicide: Kashmir under Indian Settler-colonialism in the Times of Covid

Huma Dar

Dhu al-Qa'dah 20, 14422021-07-01

India’s settler-colonial project in Jammu and Kashmir continues apace with the pandemic making life even more miserable for the oppressed Kashmiri people. The Hindu extremist regime in Delhi is involved in land-grab and changing the demography of the state.

Daily News Analysis

Silencing of guns in Africa remains a pipe dream

Dr Mustafa Bothwell Mheta

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 14422021-02-07

Daily News Analysis

Macron’s colonial mission in Lebanon and Iraq

Crescent International

Muharram 14, 14422020-09-02

Opinion

Resistance to Occupation

Zafar Bangash

Safar 02, 14412019-10-01

To resist foreign occupiers is a fundamental right recognized in international law yet colonial occupiers miss no opportunity to denigrate those that struggle for their basic rights.

Main Stories

Geopolitical Impact of the Stillborn ‘Deal of the Century’

Kevin Barrett

Shawwal 27, 14402019-07-01

Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is a crude attempt to buy off the Palestinians by burying their aspirations forever but it has found few takers.

Opinion

Is Canada a Metis Civilization? Part 2: “Six Miles Deep — Forever”

Eric Walberg

Rabi' al-Thani 13, 14392018-01-01

Even while acknowledging the wrongs done to Canada’s First Nations, both the federal government and the provincial government in Ontario continue to violate their rights to land.

Opinion

Is Canada a ‘Metis civilization’?

Eric Walberg

Muharram 11, 14392017-10-01

First Nations people in Canada, as indeed in the US and Australia have been subjected to genocide by the European colonialists that first set foot on the continent. Today First Nations people are found on reservations living in appalling conditions.

Opinion

Malala and the inferiority complex syndrome

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 08, 14362014-11-01

Malala Yusufzai’s Nobel Prize has got the westoxicated Pakistani elite into a tizzy. Suffering from acute inferiority complex, they find solace in acceptance by the west.

Main Stories

Violence in Mali and the spread of AFRICOM

Zainab Cheema

Rabi' al-Awwal 20, 14342013-02-01

French military invasion of Mali backed by the US, Britain and other western countries, has everything to do with the re-colonization of Africa and little or nothing with helping the Malians to fight off militants.

அரசியல் அதிகாரத்தைக் கைப்பற்றல்: யாருடைய விதிமுறைகள் மற்றும் நிபந்தனைகளின் பேரில்? –பாகம் 2 Acquiring political power: on whose terms and conditions? (Part II) (Tamil)

Perwez Shafi

Shawwal 14, 14332012-09-01

பலவீனமாகி நொறுங்கிக் கொண்டிருந்த ஒரு கருத்தியலால் சிக்கலுற்றிருந்த முஸ்லிம் உலகின் பழுதடைந்த அரசியல் கட்டமைப்புகளை வாய்ப்பாக்கி, அதன் வளங்களைச் சுரண்டுவதற்காக ஐரோப்பியக் காலனியவாதிகள் பதினேழாம் நூற்றாண்டு வாக்கில் முஸ்லிம் உலகின் கதவுகளைத் தட்டினர். அதிலிருந்தே முஸ்லிம் வரலாற்றின் இரண்டாம் கட்டம் துவங்கியது. முஸ்லிம்களின் அரசியல் திறன்கள் அப்போது சகல கோணங்களையும் அல்லது வருங்கால விளைவுகளையும் நுணுகியுணரும் திறன்படைத்தவையாக இருக்கவில்லை; அவர்களின் இராணுவங்கள் ஒழுங்கு குலைந்து பிளவுபட்டுக் கிடந்ததுடன், அதிக விலைதரும் எவருக்கும் தமது விசுவாசத்தை தாரைவார்க்கவும் தயாராக இருந்தன.

Special Reports

Impediments to development in the Muslim world

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 11, 14332012-06-01

Muslims occupy a vast swathe of the earth’s surface. From Morocco in the west to Indonesia in the southeast, Muslims reside in a part of the globe that acts as a bridge between Europe and the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia.

Special Reports

Libyan War reveals psychedelic dusk of pax Americana

Zainab Cheema

Shawwal 03, 14322011-09-01

In the grand old days of colonialism, European nations used all sorts of elaborate excuses for occupying the fabulously wealthy territories of Africa and Asia. Rudyard Kipling called it the “white man’s burden” to transmit (European) culture and civilization to the unwashed natives.

Reflections

The modern Brown Sahibs

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 20, 14262005-04-01

Lord Macaulay could not have imagined that his Minute on Education, written for the British Colonial Administration in 1835, would still be valid 170 years later. His idea to create “Brown Englishmen” in India is alive and well, but with an important difference: the brown sahibs have now arrived in Europe and North America as well, and are hard at work to please their masters.

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Features

Clothing, colonization and spiritual identity

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rajab 16, 14252004-09-01

Clothing must be among the most important but least analyzed sites of colonization. The works that examine the connection between colonization and clothing concentrate almost entirely on the material dimension of dress...

Occasional Paper

Kalim Siddiqui’s conceptualization of the civilizational goals of Islam

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 21, 14171996-11-03

In this paper, Zafar Bangash highlights some key elements of Dr Kalim’s Siddiqui’s understanding of the contemporary historical situation, the role of the Islamic movement as in instrument for the ‘total transformation’ of the Ummah, and the challenges facing the Islamic movement in attempting to fulfill this role.

Occasional Paper

Kalim Siddiqui: A Man of the Qur’an and the Sunnah

Muhammad H. al-'Asi

Jumada' al-Akhirah 21, 14171996-11-03

This paper was presented by Imam Muhammad al-Asi at the ‘Dr Kalim Siddiqui Memorial Conference' convened by the Muslim Institute for Research and Planning and the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain in London on November 3, 1996.

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