Abdulkadir Özkan: "The problem of the Islamic world to imitate the West"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "The problem of the Islamic world to imitate the West"
Date: 24.8.2021 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on latest developments in Afghanistan. Here is the full article.

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With the USA's withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years, the country's tumbling into complete uncertainty has inevitably raised some questions. For example, collaborators in some countries that had been acting together in Afghanistan for years began to say, "The USA will let us down, too." My concern is not what the USA and its coalition partners think about the Islamic world, but because the sufferings of the Islamic world caused by the constant invasions, exploitation and withdrawal of some local collaborators in Islamic countries, are not our problem, because we have not seriously focused on it. Wherever there is suffering in the Islamic world, behind it lies the inability of the Islamic world to act in order to find a solution to the problem of that country, although the Christian alliance is clearly visible.
 
If we can think about how we got to this point, if it can be seen that the Crusader alliance is behind this mess of the Islamic world, if those who see it can form a common movement, blood will not shed in Afghanistan for 40 years. At the point reached today, the fact that the determination of the future of Afghanistan has been left to those who have been occupying this country for years shows that the exploitation of the Islamic world will continue from now on.
 
Some intellectuals in the Islamic world, who declared themselves democrats and libertarians, defended the occupation of Afghanistan by Russia (Soviet Union). I've experienced this myself. Discussing the issue with a colleague, I asked, "Is Russia's invasion of Afghanistan in line with your understanding of freedom?" When I asked him, he said that Russia did not invade Afghanistan, but that it was protecting it against US imperialism. For many years, some people have called pro-USA as patriotism. However, our country was being exploited and the interests of the imperialists were being protected knowingly or unknowingly. Not only in our country, but also in the Islamic world, the society was almost divided into two, and they were on the side of Russia, the other side, and the coalition partners.
 
It may be possible to dwell on the reasons for this for a long time. However, it would not be wrong to say that the power of propaganda plays an important role in this. Because today, primarily the imperialists present themselves through propaganda means. After taking the people as thought, they seize the wealth of the exploited countries in various ways. It would not be correct to say that this situation has changed even today. Maybe the tactics applied before the invasion of the countries may have changed a little. But nothing changes in the exploiters and the exploited. If we bring the word to the attitude of the Islamic world, the issue that emerges there presents different dimensions. Colonists find some tools in the exploited countries, they continue the exploitation of the countries by using them with some opportunities they provide, or they create camps in the countries and take over the people who are tired of internal conflicts, then from time to time, actual occupations come to the agenda. This is what has been happening in Afghanistan for years. Of course, besides this, the fact that Islamic countries do not think and cannot think that a new power should be formed against the forces behind some internal turmoil and attacks against their Muslim brothers constitutes the basis of the issue.
 
When the Islamic world begins to see and perceive the problem as the problem of the entire Islamic world in the face of attacks on its other brothers, I think the colonialists will no longer be able to run around in the Islamic world as they wish. I hope that the awakening of the Islamic world in this direction is not too late, the Islamic world will save its mind from the cultural imperialism of the West and give up imitation as soon as possible.

YEREL HABERLER

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