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British colonialism
X ^ | 15 August 2025 | Dan Burmawi

Posted on 08/16/2025 11:33:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The British colonialism lasted a few centuries, left behind railroads, legal systems, education, and modern institutions.

It wasn't perfect. It had its sins. But it also built.

The British brought modern medicine, science, engineering, and governance. They opened schools, built cities, printed books, developed infrastructure, and left behind functioning states, many of which are now sovereign global players.

Now compare that to Islamic colonialism,

1,400 years long, relentless, brutal, and still ongoing.

It left behind slavery, tribalism, religious apartheid, cultural erasure, and the complete destruction of countless civilizations.

In India alone, Islamic invasions are estimated to have killed 80 million Hindus.

Entire cultures, Zoroastrians, Berbers, Assyrians, Nubians, Copts, were wiped out, Arabized, or reduced to second-class citizens.

Native languages were erased. Indigenous philosophies were buried under Arabic supremacism. Libraries were destroyed.

Islamic empires didn't bring modernity.

They stole achievements from conquered people, translated their works, stamped Arabic on them, and claimed the glory.

What was preserved from the Greeks, Persians, and Indians wasn't Islamic brilliance, it was Islamic appropriation.

Islamic colonialism didn't leave behind parliaments, constitutions, or democratic institutions.

It left behind dictatorships, theocracies, blasphemy laws, and sharia brutality.

It replaced thinkers with clerics, debate with dogma, and diversity with submission.

Never put British and Islamic colonialism in the same category.

British colonialism built nations. Islamic colonialism buried them.

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A compare-and-contrast exercise.
1 posted on 08/16/2025 11:33:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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“Other than that, what have the British ever done for us?”


2 posted on 08/16/2025 11:35:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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LOL!


3 posted on 08/16/2025 11:37:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Rummyfan

Leftists who claim they are siding with Islam because of western imperialism are the biggest hypocritical dolts on the planet. Islam has been the ultimate in ugly, vicious imperialistic colonizing.


4 posted on 08/16/2025 11:43:29 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: dfwgator

Dang it, I was just looking For that!


5 posted on 08/16/2025 11:47:22 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Rummyfan

In India, they ended the practice of killing a widow after her husband died. That’s the one place where Islam was superior to Hindu. The islamists understood the value of a mother if a father went to his 72. Other than that Islamic culture only produced a few not religious notables like Omar Khayyam’s advances in algebra and calculus. And he was probably Zoroastrian


6 posted on 08/16/2025 11:57:21 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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British ended the kill a widow practice


7 posted on 08/16/2025 11:58:14 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: dfwgator

The British brought cricket to many of their colonies where it is still popular. Fortunately, cricket developed after the Thirteen Colonies were settled.


8 posted on 08/16/2025 12:03:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rummyfan

Do note, India defeated the Brits….the end of their sunset Empire.


9 posted on 08/16/2025 12:09:42 PM PDT by delta7
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Leftists who claim they are siding with Islam because of western imperialism are the biggest hypocritical dolts on the planet. Islam has been the ultimate in ugly, vicious imperialistic colonizing.

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The last time Islam invaded Europe it took 700 years to kick them out.

Wonder how long round 2 is going to last.


10 posted on 08/16/2025 12:12:28 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: delta7

Do note, India defeated the Brits….the end of their sunset Empire.


WWI and WWII defeated the Brits...They had nothing left in the tank.


11 posted on 08/16/2025 12:14:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

The British treat Ukraine like it’s their colony.


12 posted on 08/16/2025 12:16:29 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Rummyfan

True.


13 posted on 08/16/2025 12:23:25 PM PDT by boycott
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To: dfwgator

this didn’t help either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Pound_Poms
That’s how the members of AC/DC moved from Scotland to Australia


14 posted on 08/16/2025 12:29:50 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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And the Brits got Jamaicans in return.


15 posted on 08/16/2025 12:30:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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this didn’t help either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Pound_Poms
That’s how the members of AC/DC moved from Scotland to Australia


The Bee Gees left England for Australia.


16 posted on 08/16/2025 12:37:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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they were Brits to begin with, they just went back later on


17 posted on 08/16/2025 1:16:10 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: Rummyfan

And now British colonizers are allowing themselves to be colonized by Islamic colonizers. Ironic isn’t it?


18 posted on 08/16/2025 1:22:24 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRATic party is a treasonous America hating cult.)
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To: dfwgator

Jamaicans weren’t really a problem. A lot of the early commonwealth immigrants loved Britain and it was common for them to put a picture of the queen up on the mantlepiece.

In later decades, they became entitled and hostile. Aggravated by subversive leftists and segregationist Islam.


19 posted on 08/16/2025 1:25:38 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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True, it’s the second generation that causes the problem, especially the Muslims, they are the ones who get radicalized.


20 posted on 08/16/2025 1:26:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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