:Mamdouh Bitar, Ruba Mansour 

      What did the conquerors carry with them when they came to the Levant, Egypt and other countries? Did they have a book in their hand, or did they have a religious man, a scholar, a culture, a philosophy, etc.? They had nothing in their hands but the sword and the concept that I have come to you with slaughter, then the principle of converting to Islam and you will be safe, or pay the tribute and you will be humiliated and by hand, or fight where you will certainly be slaughtered. What do we expect from a colonial conqueror of this cave type compared to the French invasion of Egypt, which was accompanied by many scholars who deciphered the secrets of the hieroglyphic language, then brought the printing press and other things. Of course, all of this was not for the sake of the Egyptians’ good eyes, but for a private benefit, or rather for a civilizational concept mixed with occupation. Egypt advanced at the hands of the printing press and benefited from the French presence in some way, even if the benefit was partial.

On the other hand, what did the people of the Levant and Egypt benefit from the Bedouin conquests? There was nothing but harm, crime and primitiveness that took root over time in the consciousness of the people, and which is still dominant to a large degree until now despite its great erosion through uncovering it. One of the worst results of the Bedouin invasion was that stagnation in all aspects of life. Here we notice the absence of differences between the stagnation caused by the Ottoman colonialism and the stagnation caused by the Bedouin colonialism.  

Before the era of free social communication, peoples’ interaction with history was distorted by the factor of not knowing the reality as it really is. Consequently, we drifted into wrong assessments, including excluding Bedouin colonialism from criticism and rejection because it was, as we were told, a liberation. However, today we do not consider it a liberation, but rather a vicious, degraded usurpation. The Arabists and the Brotherhood are an exception to this rule, as they consider the Bedouin occupation a clear conquest that must be celebrated and commemorated to the point of glorifying its symbols, such as naming mosques, schools, and others after the symbols of the invaders, i.e., the name of the Caliphate and the name of its military leaders,  based on Arab Brotherhood-like concepts such as the concept of loyalty and disavowal, which is concerned with the religious nation and not with the earthly homeland. Rather, it fights the earthly homeland, because the international religion is like a “homeland.” The matter is not limited to the abolition of the homelands that were formed according to modern concepts, but the abolition expands to the family and the abolition of the role of the woman as a mother, as the importance of religion was much greater than the importance of the mother, wife, or even the father or son or Wife, when the son abandons religion or does not perform the dawn prayer, he is killed, even by his father. The duties of religion were the basis of all this crime and madness.

  The Bedouin catastrophe was not limited to destroying social relations, then violating homelands and striving to abolish them, because their new belief, which was born 1450 years ago, considered homelands to be idols and idols to be destroyed. All of that disappeared in the age of digging and excavation. Here, a rotting corpse was identified that was hidden behind lies and illusions. Their graves were full of scandals and thus a cause for ridicule, not for pride or even emulation of the inhabitants of the graves from the degenerate criminals like Khalid Ibn al-Walid and his likes. 

All of this and much more, such as the violation of homelands and the destruction of social relations such as motherhood, indicated that a “civilization” was born 1450 years ago, and was rich and great according to their claim, but in the age of digging, excavation and revealing the hidden, a rotting corpse was identified, hidden behind lies and illusions, their graves were filled with the garbage of backwardness, stagnation and degenerate scandals, and thus a cause for ridicule, denunciation and shame, not for pride and emulation.

The invasion of Egypt and the invasion of the Levant were carried out by savages carrying swords. We have not heard anything about the books they wrote or the ideas they created. They were illiterate, including Ibn Abdullah. They did not add anything to the civilization of the Levant or the civilization of Egypt or others. Rather, they demolished what the ancients had built in Egypt and the Levant, even some of the pyramids. The same applies to the rest of the conquered areas, which were taken over by the invaders as they took possession of other spoils of war such as captives, concubines, property, and everything available, such as money in the form of a tribute. Even the dead had to pay it at the hands of the living among their relatives, and they were humiliated. The violation was complete, including people and stones. All of this was done without any knowledge of managing the offices and records related to money and spoils. Here, they sought help from the Copts in Egypt and from the Syriacs in the Levant.

The invasion and the collection of spoils of war cannot be considered “civilization” or “liberation” since the peoples of the conquered regions were not of a lower civilization, and the Egyptians and Syrians did not need to learn anything civilized from the invaders, except for the way of dealing with the sword, then captivity and theft, which represented for them the main primary goal. The Syrian farmer and the Egyptian farmer remained behind their plows, and with time even agriculture disappeared, and no alternative was invented, even the Bedouin invaders did not learn from the civilizations of the peoples who afflicted them.

The Roman and Pharaonic Egyptian monuments remained standing tall, defying time. The barbarism of the Bedouin locusts was not limited to not advancing or learning from civilized peoples, but rather the barbarism was keen to stimulate backwardness, so that the military level of the Bedouins would be somewhat balanced with the level of civilization of the conquered countries. To weaken the level of civilization, the Bedouin locusts resorted to deliberate destruction. Saladin destroyed many pyramids, and the Bedouins did nothing else in the Levant. The destruction was not limited to the era of conquests, but rather extended to the current era, for example, primarily at the hands of ISIS. Before ISIS, the Brotherhood practiced this, and before the Brotherhood, the Ottomans did this.

It is not permissible to attribute civilization to anyone other than those who contributed to it. The Pharaonic civilization was created by the Pharaohs, i.e. the ancient Egyptians. The Mesopotamian civilization was created by the Arameans, Syriacs and Chaldeans. The Mayan civilization was created by the Mayan people. What did the Bedouins create? What books did they write, what buildings did they construct, what laws did they enact, and what cultural works did they practice? There were no arts, philosophy or sciences in religion. Drawing was forbidden, photography was forbidden, theater was forbidden, and even the establishment of libraries was forbidden. The printing press was forbidden, with the exception of beards that reached the knees. Then prayer, the practice of animalistic forms of rape, and murder for the most trivial reasons were permitted and were a type of worship.

When we discuss or evaluate any colonial invasion of our country, ancient or modern, we denounce, condemn and find it ugly, because it represents exploitative ambitions with barbaric and savage means. However, the Arabists and the Brotherhood do not consider the Bedouin locust invasion to be colonialism, but rather a clear conquest. They praise it and do not hesitate to hold celebrations in its memory. Rather, they name schools, streets and mosques after criminals such as Saladin, Ibn al-Walid or Uqba ibn Nafi’ to immortalize them. All of this proves that the Arabists and the Brotherhood do not know the truth about the Bedouin locust invasion, or that they know it, but they want to employ the indoctrination of glorification to facilitate the possibility of their domination as if they were an extension of the Bedouin locusts. That is, they want to have the privilege of plundering, dominating and stealing as the Bedouin locusts had. That is, they are afflicted with duality on the one hand, and on the other hand they do not have a means of living other than plundering and stealing. The duality of work and production was missing among the Bedouins and remained Missing among the Arabists.

They originally only want sanctification for themselves, and they use sanctification in the process of subduing and hybridizing consciousness according to their elastic standards regarding the sacred, which has turned into a major problem, especially after it expanded on the personal level. Thus, Sinwar reached the rank of Omar, and Omar reached the rank of a sacred god. Even the invasion was considered sacred, and fabrication against the Creator by His creation became sacred. Killing is sacred, and much more. The sacred was surrounded by a wall of excommunication, and whoever excommunicates is killed. That’s it, and quite simply