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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
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One important feature of the Middle East policies of Britain and
France was to divide the region to serve their own interests. This artifi-
cial order in the Middle East was a poisoned seed of never-ending wars.
These two colonialist European powers were forced to abandon the re-
gion after the Second World War.However, an environment of disor-
der and trouble has never left the region and the blood has never
stopped flowing.
When we look at the picture whose general outline we have just
summarized, we can clearly see that the Islamic world has been a target
for foreign powers ever since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Throughout the ensuing 200 years, the world's Muslims have been oc-
cupied by these powers, colonized, and subjected to oppression and
cruelty. The puppet regimes these powers installed in some of the
Muslim countries also greatly oppressed Muslims, and they continue to
do so to this very day. Moreover, the outside powers imposed a number
of ideologies that were utterly foreign to the Islamic world, such as ex-
treme nationalism, fascism and communism. Then they used those who
were duped by these ideologies to work against their own Muslim com-
munities.

The Basis of Ideologies Opposed to Islam
When we analyze the oppressors of the Muslim world, we en-
counter three basic ideas:
1. Western imperialism: For instance, British and French colo-
nialism as described above.
2. Fascism-extreme nationalism: Italian fascism and pro-fascist
groups that cause civil wars in the Islamic world.
3. Communism: Soviet Russia, China, Cambodia under the
Khmer Rouge, communists in Afghanistan and various communist
groups in the Middle East.
Close inspection reveals that each of these three is based on ideas
that emerged in the nineteenth century, and developed in the twentieth.
Extreme nationalism and the fascism that came in its wake are ideolo-