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the poll no-one had the balls to start...
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Kassem on March 23, 2006, 02:14:49 PM ---
and about the ottamans they eren't really an islamic khalifa,they were just using the arabs as source of money,in egypt,syria,lebanon arabs were treated as inferior to turks
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I strongly disagree. I don't like what you are implying in your statement that Uthmani Empire was not a legitimate Khalifah and that it was justified for "Arabs" to rebel against them...
Today these "Arab" regions that rebelled against the Uthmani Empire are paying for their mistakes and they have become nothing more than client states of the West. They were better off paying taxes and pledging allegiance to a Muslim Khalifah. It was also the correct thing to do Islamically.
The Arab regions within the Empire aloud themselves to be manipulated by the West which brought into these regions their concepts of racism and nationalism. They influenced these countries to fight on the basis of nationhood and Arabism, which has no place in Islam. Because a Muslim should be seeking to perserve the unity of the Muslim (Ummah), and a Muslim is not aloud to take aid from non-believers in order to fight a rebellion against his Muslim brothers.
All the colonial powers wanted to do was weaken the Ottoman Empire by dividing the Muslim world up into nation states. Then, it became very easy for them to subjugate the populations of these smaller, weaker nations. Which is exactly what happened after WW1. History is best qualified to teach one.
Palestine is a perfect example. The British promoted ideas of nationalism and racism to the Arab Palestinians and encouraged them to rebel against the Ottoman Empire. Then as soon as the Ottoman Empire (Islamic Khalifah) was out of the picture, they began their plan of eradicating the Arabs off their land and created in their place a Jewish homeland.
Plain and simple: Ask any Palestnian if they are better off now, then they were 100 years ago under the Ottoman Empire?
Arkan:
^ Real talk and nothing else once again my brother.
Eihtball:
Where's the option for Chuck Norris?
Kassem:
you infinite i respect all that but its a fact arabs were treated as a second rate citizens at that time.a mulim khalifa would make the best possible ruler rule,not based on his national origin like the turks did.
Kassem:
ottamosn were more of an imperilistic power than a khalifa, and they weren't offical khailfas,they named themselves that when they got the power.
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