Haviv Rettig Gur
I agree. The very zealousness with which so many Arab elites (though not all) have adopted these Western excuses for their dysfunction is the most powerful signal of their weakness. But it’s not the fault of Western academia. Arab elites have agency here. It was Arab
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Western academia gave a sick civilization the nonsense words to deflect attention away from its own responsibility to reform itself, practice introspection. Muslim dynasties were the biggest colonizers, exploiters, and enslavers in the history of human kind. Alien colonial rule over Muslim Arab countries has been a blip in their history, not the rule. Between 636 and 2024, Lebanon, Syria were under non-Muslim rule for 23 years only (coastal area exceptions during Crusades), Egypt was ruled by British for 84 years since 640. Even the longest colonized Arab Muslim country, Algeria, was under French rule for 132 years and under Muslim rule for 1892 years since the Arab invasion in mid to late 600s CE.