We can’t seem to get away from Amidhan this month, but I guess that’s because he doesn’t often give his gob a rest.
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Now he’s urging youngsters to watch a serialised tv drama about Al-Ayyubid Shalahudin – whom we dreadful Western folk know well from our history lessons as Saladin.
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Amidhan wants the kids to sit enthralled as Saladin strides forth and rides his stallion majestically across their tv screens.
Why?
..He said that the leadership of Salahuddin in the past had shown the world how powerful Islamic forces were at that time. One of the main factors was that Muslims were united and not split despite having different backgrounds. The series demonstrated how Muslims should unite to put aside differences. At that time, he said –
Muslims were able to come together and dominate the world.
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World domination, the dream Amidhan wants to inculcate into young minds.
Yes, it’s my translation, but I’m attaching the original Republika.com report at the bottom of my page so sceptics can see for themselves that I’ve not distorted Amidhan’s nostalgic paean to an era of Islamic imperialism.
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I’ve never seen that Islamic warlord Saladin portrayed ( in ‘infidel’ Western films, BTW) as anything other than a decent gent, but it remains true that his cause was far from just.
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Jerusalem in days of old
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Jerusalem, and Palestine as a whole, were for centuries part of the Roman, later Byzantine, Empire, and its people were overwhelmingly Jews and Christians – and pagans, worshipping Jupiter etc.
They did not suddenly convert to Islam. The Muslim conquest of the area was an act of brazen sectarian imperialism.
That’s why I tend to find criticism of Israel as some sort of colonialist occupation state so ludicrous. The post-war Jewish settlers merely took away from the Arabs what the Arabs had taken from the people who’d lived there for ages under Rome and Constantinople.
It is tempting to review the UK report on the English moron who wanted to ban England’s St. George’s flag – Radstock Rocks – Total Victory for England’s Flag! – because it resembled Crusader banners. A subservient mentality, exactly the opposite to Amidhan’s triumphalism.
By rights, looking at the facts of history, the Crusaders were a liberation army. They succeeded in pushing out the Saracens for a while from the lands those Saracens had seized by force of arms, but then they lost to Saladin’s determination and strategic skills.
In modern times, Saladin’s heirs have similarly lost out to the Israelis – again and again.
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Islamc conquests
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So serious students of history should be aware that there was no question of Islamic incursions into Palestine, nor, later, Europe, being exercises in peaceful persuasion. Their armed aggression is a matter of record, and only heroic resistance by valiants in Iberia and on the Danube saved all our countries from such jihadist expansionism.
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Had Saladin, and those who came after him, indeed, as Amidhan fondly puts it ‘dominated the world,‘ London might well be full of drabs in burkas, its citizens ordered to comply with shariah law.
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Oooops!
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Dia mengatakan, kepemimpinan Salahuddin pada masa lalu telah menunjukkan kepada dunia betapa dahsyatnya kekuatan Islam saat itu. Salah satu faktor utamanya adalah umat Muslim bisa bersatu dan tidak tercerai berai kendati memiliki latar belakang berbeda-beda. Lewat serial itu ditunjukkan bagaimana seharusnya umat Islam bersatu dengan mengesampingkan perbedaan-perbedaan.
Pada saat itu, kata dia, umat Islam dapat bersatu dan menguasai dunia. MUI: Salahuddin Al-ayyubi Bisa Satukan Umat Islam …
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