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For five hundred years, between the 15th’ and loth

centuries, the entire world was plundered for the:. benefit oCWest.

It is an irony that the a~ ()f liberal democracy was aiS() the age of imperialism. When Paris was ri0.rin8 with, the revolutionary slogans of liberty, fraternity and equality, the French forces were crushin& the independent states of Africa and South.East Asia. and were harnessing them Under their imperialistic yoke. While Democracy reigned $Upreme in England and America, China and India. were ‘bein& subjupt. ed and enslaved; these countries were ruthlessly enchained and their cultures destl’Oyed m~t inbumanely. The Indian industries were strangled . to death only to give a lease of life to the Lancashire tex.tile industry.

China was impoverished only to enrich . Britain.

The great Shanghai library was burned to ashes only to quench tlle imperialist thirst for domination.

Russia was invaded by Western armies in 1610, 1709, 1812, 1915 and 1941. The peoples of Africa and Asia were subjected to successive waves of imperialist aggtessi()ns in the forms of Western missionaries, tr.lders md . adventurers ever since the 15th century. During this very period, the West colonized America, Australia, New Zealand. South and East Africa and exterminated or subjugated the aborigines. Millions of Africans were enslaved and deported across,the Atlantic in order to serve the European colonizers ()f the America$ as liviD& tools to minister to their Western masters’ greed for wealth. ThrolJihout Asia and Alrica. every endeavour has been made to eliminate the local cultures. In the minds of the ncwgcneration see~ of revolt against their own ciYilization have been meticulously sowed and through the agency of education and the lll3SS-media, an assassination

ot their mind and thought has been accomplished. Their

culture and Civilization are not tolerated and the system of th~ West has been superinlposcd upon th~m.s.

S.Fanatjrjsm. Into/rrtlllrtantilslturi. Kbunbid Abtrtad. ISlamic Pubic • • &ions, LAbOlt., 19S7.