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V. S. Naipaul, New York Review of Books (January 31, 1991)

Open any modern introductory book on Islam and the chances are you will find that it begins by singing the praises of a people who ravaged, in an incredibly short period, half the civilized world a people who established an empire that stretched from the banks of the Indus in the east to the shores Morocco in the west.

The volume will recount in positively glowing terms a time when Muslims ruled over a vast population of diverse peoples and cultures. One can hardly imagine contemporary British historian being able to get away with similar eulogies on the British Empire.

While European colonialism and imperialism (both being general terms of abuse by now) are blamed for every ill on earth, and something of which all Europeans are made to feel ashamed of, Arab imperialism is held up as something of which Muslims can be proud, something to be lauded and admired.

Although Europeans are constantly castigated for having imposed their "insidious" and "decadent" values, culture, and language on the Third World, no one cares to point out that Islam colonized lands that were the homes of advanced and ancient civilizations, and that in doing so, Islamic colonialism trampled under foot and permanently destroyed many cultures.

"The Arab conquests rapidly destroyed one empire,and permanently detached large territories of another. This was, for the states in question, an appalling catastrophe-" or as Cook and Crone put it, the conquests were achieved at "extraordinary cultural costs". [ the lives it cost , the blood shed is recounted later]

Speros Vryonis in his "The Decline Of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century" describes how the essentially Hellenic and Christian way of life, with its bishoprics and magnificent monasteries, were destroyed by the Turkish invasions of the 1060s and 1070s - many people fled, were captured, massacred, or enslaved [ since Islam sanctions, regulates and to this day perpetuates slavery as is evidanced by slave trade in Islamic Sudan]. Vryonis describes a similar decline in the subsequent centuries with the eventual destruction of the Byzantine Empire.

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Matoub was widely respected as a "rebel poet and singer" opposed to both the government and its radical Islamist foes. "The Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic path is a dead-end one," read a placard hoisted by several protesters at the mourning gathering, summing up Berber feelings about the government's Arabisation policy.

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The singer was kidnapped by Moslem rebels in 1994 and held for two weeks before being released after his supporters threatened to stage "all-out war" against Islamic fundamentalists. "

Muslims despise co-religionists who accept what they see as alien Western values, and yet fail to see that they themselves could justifiably be seen as "traitors" to the culture of their ancestors.

In India, for exemple, present-day Muslims are the descendants of Hinduconverts, in Iran, of Zoroastrians, in Syria, of Christians. A vast number of Muslims throughout the world have been persuaded to accept a religion that originated thousands of miles away, to read a book in a language that they do not understand, which they learn to read and write before they know their own mother tongue or the national language.

These Muslims learn more of the history of a people remote from them geographically and ethnically than the past of their own countries (before the advent of Islam).

Another one of the unfortunate consequences of the triumph of Islam is that it has cut millions of people off from their own ricin, non-Muslim heritage.

As V. S. Naipaul reflected during his travels in Pakistan :

"The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology.

History has to serve theology. The excavated city of Mohenjodaro in the Indus Valley overrun by the Aryans in 1500 b.c. is one of the archaelogical glories of Pakistan and the world. The excavations are now being damaged by waterlogging and salinity, and appeals for money have been made to world organizations.

A featured letter in Dawn [a daily Pakistani newspaper] offered its own ideas for the site. The letter suggested that verses from the Koran, the writer said, should be engraved and set up in Mohenjodaro in "appropriate places-: "Say (unto them, O Mohammed): Travel in the land and see the nature of the sequel for the guilty.... Say (O Mohammad, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you. Most of them were idolaters." [ the verse suggests divine wrath for idolaters and those who disbelieve - Islam preaches that Allah (god) justly destroyed many ancient civilizations as a punishment for their sins]

Naipaul goes onto quote Sir Mohammed Iqbal(1875-1938), the Indian Muslim poet who is often considered the spiritual founder of Pakistan, and a kind of posthumous "national poet." Naipaul writes:

It was the poet Iqbal's hope that an Indian Muslim state might rid Islam of "the stamp that Arab imperialism was forced to give it."

It turns out now that the Arabs were the most successful imperialists of all time; since to be conquered by them (and then to be like them) is still, in the minds of the faithful believers, to be saved.

History, in the Pakistan school books I looked at, begins with Arabia and Islam. In the simpler texts, surveys of the Prophet and the first four caliphs and perhaps the Prophet's daughter are followed, with hardly a break, by lives of the poet Iqbal, Mr Jinnah, the political founder of Pakistan, and two or three "martyrs," soldiers or airmen who died in the holy wars against India in 1965 and 1971.

This contempt for the pagan past remains to limit the historical imaginations of most Muslims, to narrow the intellectual horizonsn [of the mindless masses]. Certainly at the beginning the sciences of Egyptology, Assyriology, and Iranology were the exclusive concerns of European and American scholars. It was left to the dedicated Western archaeologists to recover and give back to mankind a part of its glorious past.

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