Colonialism was synonymous to pillage by land grabbing. De-colonised era is continuation of western Imperialism. USA is the flag bearer of colonial legacy through neoliberalism and exceptionalism. However, the methodology has changed. Viceroys are replaced with American whip-dogs. Economic ecosystem is controlled through WB, IMF, Military Industrial Complex and The Eliteof physical occupation they appoint
Tawaf of White House is more important Tawaf of Black House.
De-colonial era in Muslim world is a hoax. From Arab Revolution of Sharif Hussain to Arab Spring, all began with an ostensibly noble cause and ended up serving post colonial imperial interests.
De-colonised Muslim world in its breadth from Morocco to Indonesia and from Caucuses in North to Tanzania in South is dealing with corrupt despotic regimes most of them are in the pocket of US and very few in Russian or Chinese camp.
In order to keep control over their people and resources, Muslim rulers in de-colonial era have been ruthless and obnoxious. Just to get a measure of it, since 1950s, Israel and Morocco enjoyed strong ties. Late King Hassan of Morocco when confronted with political upheaval in his country took Mossad’s help to neutralise opposition including targeted assassinations in Europe. As quid pro quo, besides allowing Mossad to bug and surveil Arab League Summit in Morocco, facilitating migration of one million Moroccan Jew to Israel under King’s protection.
Would be more appropriate to replace the term De-colonial with Post Colonial era. The very basis of a society’s outlook is weighed in terms of its education system’s ethos. In Muslim world, education is colonial which verifies and promotes Eurocentricity. Muslims apologetically continue to justify democracy aligned with Islamic system of governance because western form of democracy has become an acceptable standard. Economy is colonial because all major trade partners of de-colonised Muslim world are their colonisers of the past. Political social order is thoroughly colonial. Same paradigm agreed upon extracting British, French, Belgian troops has been replaced by local troops trained by ex-colonisers. Religious discourse is colonial to the hilt. Past three centuries, Muslims have been trying to look modern by admission that they are in decline because orientalists thought so or labelled them as such.
So much more on the biggest fraud of decolonisation in last hundred years or so in next parts.
Please note these de-colonial pieces are woven around current situation in Palestine because it is the iconoclast moment in the history. So if any state, organisation or people who do not stand by Palestinians are on the wrong side of the history and shall remain so forever. This movement is reaching a tipping point. A point where cause becomes larger than the cause itself and begins to challenge the elements of mainstream political, social, economic and cultural norms. Take for example social media imprints since October last year; on pro Israeli side the SMN imprint share was around 500 million whereas on pro-Palestinian side it was close to 25 Billion. These were not all Palestinians or Muslims alone but people of the world in general who believed that there was something fundamentally wrong. In the context of SMNs and their impact, just a quick comment on Pakistan, “We are well protected by the firewall”. There is no better pun to describe this, ‘Denial (The Nile) is not a river in Egypt’.
Back to Palestine in de-colonised era, Muslims have not been the gatekeepers of this movement. The system of imperial colonial control tightened the noose so hard through their ruling representatives in Muslim world that post 9/11 Muslims could talk about any thing like Wuddu, Taharah, Sufism, Divine love and so on. Or play their favourite sport of sectoral divide. For Palestine, Muslim discourse was limited to emotional rhetorical appeal and nothing substantial, structured or organised due to serious want of centrality of efforts. Post October 7, 2023, the situation got even worse. Let alone, Zionist sock puppet rulers, there aren't any significant protests for the fear of incarceration by despotic regimes in Muslim World whether monarchies, democracies, dictatorships, dictatorial democracies or theocracies. In their respective countries, these rulers are loyal jail superintendents of Imperial Colonial Jail the world has become.
Where does Pakistan stand in all this? Right in the middle of the queue of obedient superintendents. No encampments. No sizeable protests. Just a customary product boycott of Israeli sponsor corporations. This too is insignificant in the face of massive trade and logistics support system provided by significant Muslim countries to Israel. See for example, most of the supplies to Israel are coming through UAE and passing through KSA & Jordan. Turkey’s unabated trade with Israel continues which is approximately 7 Billion USD. The oil & gas supplies of Israel continue from Azerbaijan. Palestinians are not only facing the brutalities of Zionists, they are up against power of west and Muslim countries e.g. Egyptian closure of Rafah border & not to mention the spat between Israel & Iran which was no more than a lovers’ tiff.
So much more unveiling of de-colonial fraud in subsequent parts.
I couldn’t write. What was there to write. You get to hear everything on Vlogs, podcasts and analyses of your choice and liking. For me, the flight of this country has taken a nose dive and we are all waiting for the plane to hit the ground while these Vloggers, podcasters and analysts get more likes, views and dollars. What a horror show!!!
So let’s unearth what actually is happening? Let’s take a look at the world with a different prism. A clearer worldview may help us better understand the quandary we are in neck deep. The whole world has become an imperial colonial jail and Pakistan is no exception.
In de-colonised era of post colonial and post World War Two system of control, the Imperial Colonialism has taken a new shape and much horrible form. Take for example iconic western universities like Oxford, Yale, Harvard etc, where we yearn to go and get our customised leadership from, are not bastions of knowledge. They may claim to have academic freedom and discourse of liberal understanding. In reality, these institutions operate under controlled environments espousing dominant aspects of political landscape. The end product i.e. graduates are programmed to fit into politics, military industrial complex and mainstream media discourse. They indoctrinate generation next with the narrative of colonial discourse and prepare them to carry the baton of colonial legacy. The faculty consists of embedded intellectuals who are thinkers, writers, motivators, explainers and justifiers of colonial imperial legacy. De-colonial studies and institutional de-colonial studies are two different streams. Institutional de-colonial scholars remaining within the ‘framework’ are completely silent over what is happening in Gaza. This should give you a measure of how system works. These universities have big buckets of grants worth billions of dollars out of which academia get their fair share through book publishing, pays, perks, pensions and promotions. Whereas, de-colonial academia working outside the ‘framework’ are marginalised and cancelled due to power and influence of Zionist lobbies. Student encampments against Israeli atrocities in Palestine was not part of the playbook. To the horror of Zionist, marginalised de-colonial academias got to speak to students at university encampments. Student encampments are a watershed moment of our times. This event was like those out of syllabus conceptual questions which were a nightmare for rote learners. The whole facade of western liberal values came crumbling down. The ugly face of neo-literalism slowly got unmasked. The very kids that system of control was brooding as next generation imperial clones, refused to be brainwashed. They carried out police action and tried to gag them. This shook the edifice of the control system and shall have far reaching consequences.
The credit must go the lion-hearts of Hamas who woke the world from its opioid slumber of de-colonial fraud. If nobody else, at least, for me personally it was a rude awakening.
Lot to say on this in next parts.