Don't Colonize Yourself: Mohamed Ghilan Speaks on The Colonizer And The Colonized
Albert Memmi is a Jewish Italian-Tunisian who lived during colonial Algeria and wrote a book on his observations from his unique position in society: between colonizer and colonized. Mohamed Ghilan, a Canadian of Yemeni-Sudani origins who studied Maliki fiqh in Mauritania and has a PHD in neuroscience, discusses the relevance of the revolutionary (in the literal sense) text to the modern day secular-liberal-atheistic ethos. The book offers a perspective of the mentality of the European colonizer and contrasts it with the perspective of the colonized. Do watch the video! Beast mode activates at 9:20 in the video. Summary and Analysis of the Video At 9:30, He illustrates the following argument that the materialists present us with: The church propagated beliefs that prevented science and advancement and lead to the dark ages. Since, Islam has similar beliefs to Christianity Therefore, Islam prevents science and advancement. But ...