Does Complaining About Colonialism Remove Agency?
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💵 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/hikmahistory 💵 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12397811 Al-Muqaddimah poster in the background: almuqaddimah.com Colonialism ended. Not everywhere at the same time, not cleanly, not without leaving enormous damage behind — but the British left India in 1947, the French left Algeria in 1962, the last formal European colonial structures in the Muslim world were dismantled decades ago. And the question that has to be asked is this: at what point does invoking colonialism as the primary explanation for current conditions stop being an insight and start being an excuse? Because if we take it to its logical extreme, the colonialism argument removes agency from Muslim societies entirely. It positions the Muslim world as a permanent victim of external forces, incapable of determining its own fate, forever condemned to be the object of other people's decisions rather than the subject of its own history. And I think this framing is harmful to the project of M
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