Two centuries of plunder and humiliation

The European powers colonised one Islamic country after another. France occupied Algeria in 1830, and Britain Aden nine years later. Tunisia was occupied in 1881, Egypt in 1882, Sudan in 1889, Libya and Morocco in 1912. In 1915, the Sykes-Picot agreement divided the territories of the dying Ottoman Empire (which had sided with Germany during the First World War) between Britain and France in anticipation of victory. After the war, Britain and France duly set up protectorates and mandates in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan.

This was experienced as an outrage since the European powers had promised the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire independence. In the Ottoman heartlands, Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk (1881-1938), could keep the Europeans at bay and set up the independent state of Türkiye. Even after some of these countries had been allowed to become independent, the West often continued to control the economy, the oil or such resources as the Suez Canal.

European occupation often left a legacy of bitter conflict. When the British withdrew from India in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned between Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, which are to this day in a state of deadly hostility, with nuclear weapons aimed at each other’s capitals. In 1948, the Arabs of Palestine lost their homeland to the Zionists, who set up the Jewish secular state of Israel there, with the support of the United Nations and the international community.

The loss of Palestine became a potent symbol of the humiliation of the Muslim world at the hands of the Western powers, who seemed to feel no qualms about the dispossession and permanent exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

An Overview of the European invasion of the Islamic World

Dugin: From Ukraine to the Middle East: On the Brink of World War 3

Russia, as a pole of a multipolar world, is fighting the West in Ukraine. Many Islamic countries, influenced by Western propaganda, did not clearly understand the reasons, goals, and the very nature of this war, assuming it was a regional conflict (and there are many such in the Islamic world itself). But now, as globalism in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict directly affects all Muslims worldwide, Russia’s special military operation takes on a different meaning in their eyes.

This is a struggle of the multipolar world against the unipolar one, meaning it is fought not only in the interests of Russia as a pole but also indirectly (or even directly) in the interests of all emerging geopolitical poles. China understands this best, and among Islamic countries — Iran. However, there is a rapidly growing geopolitical consciousness in other Islamic societies — in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

Hence the attempts at rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Türkiye’s sovereign policy. And the more the Islamic world sees itself as a pole, a single civilisation, the clearer Russia’s behaviour becomes. Putin is already a popular leader on a global scale, especially in non-Western countries. Now, in the eyes of the world, his strategy acquires a very clear sense and justification: Russia is already fighting full force against unipolarity, that is, against globalism and the West.

The moment of Islamic World arrives

Thus, the moment of Islam arrives. And in this potential war of Muslims against Western hegemony, which could flare up at any moment (knowing the Israelis, there is no doubt that they do not intend to stop until they completely destroy the Palestinians; the war already has a biblical scale), the Islamic world has objective allies. In this situation, primarily Russia and China, which itself will soon have to resolve the issue of Taiwan.

Could this lead to a third world war? Most likely, yes. And in some sense, it is already underway. For a war to become global, what is primarily needed is a critical mass of accumulated contradictions that cannot be resolved in any non-military way. This condition has been met. The West is not intending to voluntarily give up its hegemony. And the new poles — emerging independent civilisations, large spaces — are not willing to tolerate this hegemony. Especially since the USA and the collective West demonstrate a complete inability to be leaders of humanity, not alleviating but only fanning new conflicts and wars with their policies. If war is inevitable, then it remains to be won.

Alexander Dugin

 The world will either be multipolar or not exist at all

What will the world order look like during this impending confrontation? There is no ready-made answer to this. The only certainty is that establishing a strong and stable unipolar world order, which globalists desperately cling to, is ruled out. The world will no longer be unipolar under any circumstances. The world will either be multipolar or not exist at all. The more aggressively the West insists on maintaining its hegemony, the more fierce the struggle will be.

But multipolarity will not just come into being on its own. The Islamic world is currently undergoing a significant regrouping. If Muslims can unite against a common fierce enemy, a full-fledged Islamic pole will emerge. If not, the advent of multipolarity will be delayed.

It seems that each pole must prove its right to exist through conflict. Russia will become a full and sovereign pole by winning in Ukraine. China — by resolving the issue of Taiwan.

The Islamic world — by insisting on a just solution to the Palestinian issue.

Every new pole will have its turn

Then it will be the turn of India, Latin America, and Africa, increasingly clashing with the neocolonial forces of the West. All poles of the multipolar world will have to pass their exam.

After that, we will partially return to the pre-Columbian world order, where, in addition to Western Europe, several empires coexisted — Chinese, Indian, Russian, Ottoman, and Persian, as well as independent, strong states in South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Even in Oceania, there were political and social systems, later equated by European colonisers and racists to ‘savagery’ and ‘barbarism’. Therefore, multipolarity is quite possible. This is what humanity was like before the start of Western globalist imperialist policy in modern times.

This does not mean that peace will immediately prevail on the planet. But such a multipolar world order will be much fairer and more balanced.

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The news about the US vetoing the UN Secretary’s request for a resolution on “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza just arrived as I am finishing this article. Anglo-Zionist hegemon and subordinates Euro-Nazi-Satanists (EU/NATO) will not change their attitude unless FORCED to do so. I think that the Islamic World is starting to come to terms with that fact.