1838 First Anglo-Afghan War
> Our nation came into existence
Gee... slavery... lucky we weren't involved in that.
When exactly was the last Muslim invasion of a western country?
European powers colonized one Islamic country after another. France occupied Algeria in 1830, and Britain Aden nine years later. Tunisia was occupied in 1881, Egypt in 1882, the Sudan in 1889 and Libya and Morocco in 1912. In 1915 the Sykes-Picot agreement divided the territories of the moribund Ottoman Empire (which had sided with Germany during the First World War) between Britain and France in anticipation of victory. After the war, Britain and France duly set up protectorates and mandates in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan. This was experienced as an outrage, since the European powers had promised the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire independence. In the Ottoman heartlands, Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk (1881-1938), was able to keep the Europeans at bay and set up the independent state of Turkey. Muslims in the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia became subject to the new Soviet Union. Even after some of these countries had been allowed to become independent, the West often continued to control the economy, the oil or such resources as the Suez Canal. European occupation often left a legacy of bitter conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Afghan_War
Obviously you are bigoted and one sided about the way you ignore the parts of history that you don't feel support your world view and exaggerate those parts that do.
I have no bone in the argument being irreligious. Religion IS bias. |
