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The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.
The colonial powers’ arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.
Colonial political economy also concentrated “development” in resource-rich areas, while neglecting resource-poor regions and their populations, which in many cases were Muslim.
Her populist stance on the chaebol suggests that, if elected, she might similarly pander to nationalist sentiment by taking a tough stance against Japan, especially to play down her father’s service in Japan’s military while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule.
Losing one’s life in a foreign war fought at the behest of colonial rulers was an occupational hazard; it did not qualify as a form of praiseworthy national service.
Europe depends on energy imports from the Maghreb, and its geographic proximity and past colonial relationships make it a destination, not always welcoming, of African immigration.
Gillo Pontecorvo’s brilliant 1966 film The Battle of Algiers spelled out the dilemma for the occupying colonial power.
Rather than being welcomed as liberators, the US and UK are seen as new colonial occupiers, and the Iraqis are mobilizing to push the occupiers out.
For Havel, the feeling of Europe’s former colonial powers that they must make amends for past oppression led to an “intellectual dead end.”
They were spread in South Asian countries and elsewhere through British colonial rule.
The European imperial powers of the twentieth century would periodically hold out the distant prospect of independence to their colonial subjects – but not yet, not before they were ready, not before their Western masters had educated them to take care of themselves responsibly.
After all, those tensions were largely the result of colonial divide-and-rule policies.
In most other regions, ongoing political divisions have their roots in the Cold War or the colonial era.
The multi-ethnic nature of the 1998 champion was widely touted as a mark, not of a long and often bloody colonial past, but of national superiority born from the tolerance of the French Enlightenment and the fraternity of the French Revolution.
Sub-Saharan Africa is often cited as an example of a region where China’s influence has superseded that of Europe’s former colonial powers.
And it is here where China’s reliance on a civilizational discourse of mutual respect and shared history stands in stark contrast to the West’s colonial, post-colonial, and neocolonial discourse, which tends to frame local cultures as backwards or inferior.
“The pictorial symbol” of the Washington Consensus, quipped C. Fred Bergsten, “was the colonial posture assumed by the Managing Director of the IMF as the President of Indonesia....signed his diktat.”
We have been engaged in Africa for decades, not as a colonial power, but as a partner.
Nearly three decades later, women in southeastern Nigeria organized a revolt, known as the Aba Women’s Riots, against British colonial policies.
Indigenous groups constitute 62% of Bolivia’s population, and those with mixed blood another 30%, but for 500 years Bolivians had been ruled by colonial powers and their descendants.
In the 20 th century, leaders advocating unity against the colonial and imperial powers emerged.
To this day, Afghanistan has not recognized the Durand Line – drawn by a British diplomat in 1893 and imposed on Afghanistan by India’s colonial rulers – as the formal border with Pakistan.
With only a few exceptions, the local elite was assimilated into the colonial system.
This is, of course, a deeply colonial sentiment, and the legacy of colonialism works against Israel in another way, too.
The Palestinians are seen as colonial subjects, and the longer Israel continues to occupy Arab territories, the more this perception will be confirmed.
In early modernity, however, with the systematic expulsion of Muslims from Spain in 1492, and later from lands seized by other colonial empires, hijra acquired a more violent meaning that anticipated its later association with jihad.
The Hindu nationalists in India were reacting, understandably enough, to the shame of colonial subjugation.
These laws, originally promulgated by the British in colonial India and made more draconian by a succession of Pakistani administrations, make any comment considered to be disrespectful toward Islam or the Prophet Muhammad an offense punishable by death.
The “extremists” versus “moderates” language has served only to revive colonial memories in the region and divide it even more deeply.
The British Raj used minorities to help enforce colonial rule, by promising to provide a better life for those enduring discrimination.
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