[walidthedream]

I read it. I think you’re talking about two things that have little in common … you re comparing middle age military conquests with 19th / 20th century colonialism. Arab conquests had no racial basis, they did not establish « colonies » in the 19th/20th century sense, they did not subdue the population, kill or banish their intellectuals except at specific and limited religious extremist times, segregate ethnies, and siphon the economy deliberately. which probably explains the arabization process and the fact that 90 percent of modern berbers consider themselves as Arabs because Arab is a culture, it’s not a race or an ethnic belonging. Maybe a fairer comparison would be with the Ottoman era imperialism and I can guarantee you there are plenty of writings and arts in the Arab world that depict it in critical ways.

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So racism is a pre requisite to imperialism? How do cultural imperialist societies (China, Russia) with decorated racism (everyone outside the main area is a bumbling backwards peasant) but a multi ethnic setup into this definition? This whole uniqueness of the western colonialism seems rather flimsy.