The crimes of invasion and conquest

  What did the conquerors bring with them when they came to the Levant, Egypt, and other lands? Did they have a book, a religious scholar, a language, science, culture, philosophy, etc.? They had nothing but the sword and the concept of “I have come to you with slaughter,” then the principle of “Submit and be safe, or pay the jizya while you are humiliated and submissive, or fight where you will certainly be slaughtered.” What can we expect from a conquering colonizer of this cave-dwelling type compared to the French invasion of Egypt, which was accompanied by many scholars who deciphered the secrets of the hieroglyphic language and then brought the printing press and printing and other things? Of course, all of this was not for the sake of the Egyptians, but for a special benefit, or rather for a civilizational concept that was mixed with occupation. Egypt progressed 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 gain from the Bedouin conquests? There was nothing but harm, crime, and primitivism that took root in people’s souls and which still dominates to a large extent despite its great erosion after the veil was lifted from its true nature and its consequences, One of the worst results of the Bedouin invasion was that stagnation in all aspects of life. There is no difference between the stagnation caused by Ottoman colonialism and the stagnation caused by Bedouin colonialism. Then there is the absence of any civilizational monument built by the Bedouin and Ottoman invaders. All the colossal monuments that we see in the Levant and even in North Africa date back to the Roman era and before. The Ottoman Bedouin and the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula did not build anything at all except for the ten rooms of the Sulaymaniyah Tekke in Damascus. 20% of the Syrian budget used to come from tourism, and tourists did not see anything worth seeing of the Bedouin achievements in the Levant and North Africa. Did Amr ibn al-Aas build the pyramids, and was it Saladin who destroyed the pyramids?

Before the era of free social communication, peoples’ engagement with history was distorted. When we are subjected to any form of colonialism, we condemn and denounce it, recognizing that its primary purpose was not the interests of the colonies, Arab nationalists and the Muslim Brotherhood deviate from this rule, considering the Bedouin occupation a clear victory that should be celebrated and glorified, to the point of praising its symbols, such as naming mosques, schools, and other places after the symbols of the invaders, i.e., after the Caliphate and its military leaders. This  is based on Arab nationalist and Muslim Brotherhood concepts such as the concept of loyalty and disavowal, which focuses on the religious community and disregards the earthly homeland. In fact, it fights against the earthly homeland, because the international religion is considered a “homeland.” The matter is not limited to abolishing homelands that were formed according to modern concepts, but the abolition extends to the family. The importance of religion was greater by degrees than the importance of the mother, father, son, or wife. When a son apostatized from the religion, he was killed, even by his father. Religious fanaticism was the basis of all that crime and madness.

All of this and much more, such as the violation of homelands and the destruction of social relationships like motherhood, indicates that a civilization was born 1400 years ago and was great and rich, according to their claims, but in the era of digging, excavating and revealing what was hidden, a rotting carcass was identified that had been hiding behind lies and illusions, graves filled with the garbage of vices, scandals, backwardness and stagnation, and therefore a cause for ridicule and not pride.

The conquest of Egypt and the conquest of the Levant were carried out by barbarians who carried swords. We have not heard of any book they wrote or any thought they created, They were illiterate, including Ibn Abdullah, They did not add anything to the civilization of the Levant or the civilization of Egypt and others. Rather, they destroyed what the ancients had built in Egypt and the Levant, even some of the pyramids, The same applies to the rest of the conquered regions, which were taken by the invaders as they took other war spoils, such as captives, slaves, property, and everything else, such as money, in the form of tribute that the living had to pay in humiliation. Rather, the living had to pay tribute on behalf of the dead in Coptic Egypt. It was a complete violation of people and stones without any knowledge of managing the offices and records of money and spoils, Here, at first, they sought help from the Copts in Egypt and from the Syriacs in the Levant.

Invasion and the collection of war booty cannot be considered “civilization” or “liberation” since the peoples of the conquered regions were not civilized, and the Egyptian or Syrian 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 nothing new was invented, and even the Bedouin invaders did not learn from the civilizations of the peoples who were afflicted by them.

The Roman and Pharaonic Egyptian monuments remained standing tall, defying time. The barbarity of the Bedouin locusts was not limited to not progressing or learning from civilized peoples, but rather the barbarity was keen to promote backwardness. Thus, the barbaric Bedouin military level was somewhat balanced with the civilized level of the conquered countries. To weaken the civilized level, the Bedouin locusts resorted to deliberate destruction. Saladin destroyed many pyramids, and the Bedouin did nothing else in the Levant. The destruction was not limited to the era of conquests, but rather extended to the present era, for example, at the hands of ISIS in the first place. Before ISIS, the Brotherhood practiced this, and before the Brotherhood, the Ottomans practiced this.

Civilization cannot be attributed to anyone other than those who contributed to it, The Pharaonic civilization was made by the Pharaohs, i.e., the ancient Egyptians, the Mesopotamian civilization was made by the Arameans, the Syriacs, and the Chaldeans, and the Mayan civilization was made by the Mayan peoples,What did the Bedouins make? What books did they write, what buildings did they construct, what laws did they enact, and what cultural activities did they practice? There were no arts, philosophy, or sciences in religion. Drawing was forbidden, images were forbidden, theater was forbidden, and even establishing libraries was forbidden, The printing press was forbidden, except for beards that reached the knees, then prayer, and the practice of sexual intercourse in its animalistic and rapist forms, and then killing for the most trivial reasons, which were permitted and a type of worship.

When we discuss or evaluate any colonial invasion of our lands, ancient or modern, we condemn and denounce it, for it represents exploitative ambitions carried out through barbaric and savage means. However, the Arabists and the Muslim Brotherhood do not consider the Bedouin locust invasion a colonialism but rather a clear conquest, They praise it and do not hesitate to hold celebrations in its memory,They even name schools, streets, and mosques after criminals like Saladin, Ibn al-Walid, or Uqba ibn Nafi, in order to immortalize them. All of this demonstrates the Arabists’ and the Brotherhood’s ignorance of the true nature of the Bedouin locust invasion, or perhaps they do know, but they want to use this glorification to facilitate their domination, as if they were an extension of the Bedouin locusts. That is, they want to have the privilege of plunder, domination, and theft, just as the Bedouin locusts did, In other words, they suffer from hypocrisy on one hand, and on the other hand, they have no means of survival other than plunder and theft. The duality of work and production was absent among the Bedouin and remains absent among them. Arabists.

They don’t want sanctification except for themselves, and they use sanctification in the process of molding and hybridizing consciousness according to their elastic standards regarding the sacred, which has turned into a major problem, especially after it extended to the personal level, Thus, Sinwar reached the status of Omar, and Omar reached the status of a sacred god. Even the invasion was considered sacred, and fabricating lies about the Creator by His creation became sacred. Killing is sacred, and much more besides. The sacred was surrounded by a wall of takfir (excommunication), and whoever is an infidel is killed. Just like that!