The GREAT JIHAAD of 1914-1918 (WW1). Deep Historical Analysis

[Music] I used to talk for many years about the sahaba time Disciples of prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam about umay time Abasi time about the AI time uh NRI times I mean I used to talk about those historian uh intervals uh too long but now I decided not anymore I decided just to talk about the modern history why first of all the most important reason that the modern history up to this time that I'm talking to you it is really influ influencing us and our societies too much there are um the big influence uh we are caring about for the mid history modern history this is a very important reason now and what happened with The Colony Colonial Western uh the Western Colonial uh and they took most of the Arab and Islamic countries that happen the in the modern history this is the second reason all of the Islamic groups um they started in the modern history of course and the independent the independence of the Muslim countries it happened also in the modern history of course so the Conquering then independence happened in the modern history so modern modern history is very very very important uh the uh panian case of course it Happ beened the modern history the fall of the Ottoman Empire happened also in the modern history so history is very very very important for all of us to understand and to know other reason and also good reason that most of the Arabs maybe most of the Muslims also they don't know much about the modern history they know something about the old history the beginning of Islam uh Prophet Muhammad alhi wasallam time time they know something about it but if you ask them about what happening in the modern history I say I say it's about more than 90% of the people they don't know they don't know what happened they don't know how Napoleon came and conquered Egypt they don't they didn't know the how the French came and conquered Alger Tunisia Morocco they did not know uh how the Dutch came and took the malayi countries which is which is today of course Indonesia Malaysia pronai fatani Philippine they don't know they don't know what happened in the African countries the black African countries and um Germany took some uh and Italy Italy took some French took most of the black countries England took some they don't know they don't know what happened in Palestine they they don't know what happened in Syria they don't know what happened Iraq so we're going to look at World War I well effectively the decade at least of World War I and it is literally uh I cannot underestimate over over that it is the single most impactful and important decade in the entire 20th century all of us have been affected by this all of us one way or the other we've been affected where we live today the languages we speak today the state of where we are today in the Muslim world everything the entire AIS of humanity has shifted in the 20th century but in this decade between 1910 to 1919 everything you can think of happened in that decade and the Muslim world of course suffered the greatest blow that we've suffered for a long time and that was the end of the Ottoman Empire towards the end of World War I so we're going to look at today the Great War it's an important topic that often times as Muslims or for those of us who may not be uh necessarily align ourselves to Western civilization we tend to think of as being overemphasized in school there was talking about World War I when I turn on uh History Channel when it was good it's not good anymore but when it was good it's all about World War I it's all about the Allies Central Powers but it is a topic that cannot be emphasized enough it really isn't unfortunately for the Muslim world because we tend to have a very isolated perspective on what history is so Islamic history is only about the and it's about at a stretch we can include thead and then we can go on to the Ottomans but we don't go beyond and look at what's actually shaped our reality today so the Great War I would say is a great Jihad it's the great Jihad in fact not just one Jihad two jihads the Germans waged the Jihad and the British to we the Jihad both of them and on both sides Muslims were absolutely essential and critical for the success of both sides so it is literally the great Jihad it's a global Jihad that we don't talk about enough so today we're going to look into that inshallah and uh cover a lot of ground actually a lot of ground so we begin with the New World Order we need to understand the mentality La monal as the anal school of thought says you need to understand everything about the era the Customs the political situation the language the MS everything needs to be understood to contextualize an Epoch in history properly so before we enter World War I let's look at what led up to World War I what created the mentality the Zeitgeist of the age that would create a situation that would result in such a global catastrophe then we're going to analyze we're going to go into analytics of the 51 Muslim nations that we picked okay so these 51 Muslim nations before World War I leading up to World War I what was the trajectory what were the State of Affairs in these countries we're going to analyze a number of countries we're going to to analyze today for the first time movements we have four movements we're going to analyze we're going to score them we're going to review them we're going to discuss them over the course of this year we're going to cover as I said about 50 movements so we begin with four today inshallah then as we did last time a timeline of events from 1900 to 1909 and finally we we're going to add another segment to our presentation which is obituaries and birth so year by year who was born this year who died this year Okay so it's a very comprehensive you will want to watch it again anyway you're going to want to watch it again there is a lot to take in so the book I'm holding here the Oxford history of the 20th century it's a very concise Edition it's a very concise B relatively concise compared to the other books that we have on that topic which are very thick very volumeless and you have various different uh I've got table full of them just thick and this is just one volume has a lot of detail about the what the where the when and even the how of World War I and the events leading up to World War I what we don't have is a why let's begin with a why as I said in the madima book club if you're following the book club and madima the reason for things being says that often times historians fall into the Trap of detailing events to the point to which they forget the reason why it even happened in the first place this's analyze the reason why World War I happened the reason why the world as a whole effectively collapsed and there is a chapter even a page in this book that I'm holding that I recommend every one of us we take time to read I'm going to break it down here but I want you to take time if you have time later on to read it watch the presentation Again download it read this page page it has all the ingredients so on page 91 of this book it says in the early 20th century colonial empires were associated with the ideas of national greatness competitiveness and the survival of the fittest the color is painted on maps over vast areas of Asia and Africa symbolized National Power Prestige and Destiny this is literally a a quote Straight Out of The madima Prestige is one of the terms he mentions power and Destiny of the Empire but it all begins in 1885 the Germans were an ascending power there were a new a new Dynasty a new Empire that was looking to Mark its territory on the world the French the British to an extent the Italians the Spanish the Portugues ke had had centuries in advance to colonize and Conquer and to pillage World civilizations but the Germans had only come onto the scene so in 1885 we can see the pictures on the on the right side of the presentation we have a conference that happens in Germany OV vanon bismar which is the first Secretary of this new German Empire arranges for the European heads and ambassadors to come to his residence in Berlin and to they have a conference the conference topic is how we going to carve Africa they decide for themselves that they're going to divide Africa between themselves without consulting the African leaders or the African people they've just decided we're going to carve this continent between us but in order to avoid conflict and fighting one another let's come around the table and let's discuss how we're going to divide this so you can see on the right top picture there's a map of Africa and there were people pointing towards it okay this is the beginning of the nightmare cameras begin their turning in Berlin one of the earliest Motion Pictures finds Prince B bismar exalting the Germans to love blood and iron it doesn't begin only in Africa and end that it actually extends across different continents Asia specifically Middle East right all of these nations eventually fall under this race to conquer because there was a competition among these nations to conquer as much as they can and to claim as much as they can because it reflects upon the national greatness so ovon bismar was the guy who effectively sparked this race in 1885 it begins there now the importance of the words utilized here very very key because it says competitiveness and the survival of the fittest what does that remind you of this statement survival of the fittest what theory what world viiew yes yes I want you to keep this in mind often times when we talk of colonization when we talk of uh Western imperialism we think of military we think of sometimes Financial exploitation what we don't think of is the ideology behind that is linked to Social Darwinism or the biological element of evolution one of the major driving forces behind this campaign is Darwinism and we're going to unpack how that actually is the foundation of all of this so here we see the statue that's been actually uh effectively dis Dishonored or disrespected of a very famous Infamous I would say Emperor or leader European leader does anyone know who this man is second the second yes yes now let's read what this page continues to say because it's very important and this for me was very fascinating because it captures everything in there colonies seemed to enrich National character and to encapsulate National Glory so we're talking of national caran Glory we're not talking about the colonies themselves talking about the colonizer right we're talking about the colonizer so every time France scores a point on the map it's literally a game for them it's literally a game the great game the great game they're scoring points on the map I've conquered this part I've conquered that part I've conquered this part I've conquered that part with each point they score it increases the Prestige of the nation and increases their their uh among the other nations in in Europe how people see them so National character and glory is attached to conquering as much land as possible in Africa to begin with the natives were to be [Music] civilized while the raw materials and other resources of the colonies would benefit the economy of the Metropolitan country so the natives the people who actually live in these lands were to be civilized and so it was it was a civilizational project and when we go to places such as uh Congo one of the worst affected areas in fact Congo was one of the worst examples of what this ideology could actually uh inflict upon people leopo II effectively he pillaged the entire country he mutilated millions of people he killed un innumerable amounts of people who actually died at his hands and we talk of often times of Hitler this man was worse than Hitler on all counts was worse than Hitler but in a process of being there and civilizing the natives a new ideology evolves so even later on when he passes when he's taken out of power when he passes away there's an after effect amongst the people who are there among the people in Congo at the time there was a term called evolu and again is attached to the idea of survival of the fittest every way was something that they would call somebody who spoke European languages who dressed like the European master and who espoused the beliefs and the principles of the colonizer that man that African would go from being a native to being evoluate he evolved literally he evolved this term was utilized he evolved d right so in other words he has passed the test he's now a full human being please I just want to go now don't try to kid me man I'll make a deal with you what I desire is man's red fire to make my dream come true now give me a secret man come come on do me what to do give me the power of man's red flower so I can can be like you oh ubo I want to be like you I want to walk like you talk like you too you'll see it's true someone like me can ly to be like someone like you now you might think it's ridiculous that me a gigantopithecus would ever dream I'd like to team with the likes of you man come but together we'd have powers all the jungle Treasures ours I got desire you got to fire but the dream I dream takes to so I want to be like you I want to use that flame just the same as you can do oh how magnificant it would be a giganto picus like me could learn to and so the people will be not only exploited of their resources but also of their culture their language the civilization what made them who they were was being taken away from them all in the name of what the development of human species the evolution of human species they literally believe this right so later on what we find is technological Advance made it easy to believe in human progress throughout the world yet at the same time humankind seemed trapped in an evolutionary struggle when Daren wrote his book he talks of the white races inevitably having to conquer the darker races because of their advantage the privilege they have so biologically speaking there's an advantage the more evolved so in the interest of everyone they would have to conquer the darker races and so this evolutionary struggle between the colonizer and the colonized really begins to take place and take root and really we can see the effects in the late 19th century but it doesn't stop there it continues because we need to work all the way up to 1914 the Origin of Species this a it's a it's a short title it's more palatable but the original title published in 1859 by Darwin was On the Origin of Species by means of natural natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life let me repeat that the Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life and this was published in 1859 so it wasn't too long before the conference they had in Germany so according to this principle which became social Darwinism only the fittest Nations and the fittest Empires would survive great Powers should possess great Empires if necessary at the expense of lesser Empires the possession of the weaker Colonial Powers would be absorbed by the stronger just as the territories of the dying nations of turkey in China would be annexed by the more verile European nations so by this point it was just a matter effects strong Nations devour weak Nations and the dying Empire such as the Turkish otoman Empire would inevitably be annexed at the time they used to called it the sick man of Europe so it was just a fact for them it wasn't even a discussion it was just a fact that as a great nation as great European nations we just have to go and Conquer because it's a survival of the fittest we have to survive May the best man win but this caused many problems because you have have one part of the world that has a mentality of conflict and imposition and competition and you have other parts of the world that don't have that mentality they don't have that comp Competitive Edge or that idea of dominating other people and so what we see in the 20th century is effectively these two coming together and on one side a ruthless campaign to conquer to survive to dominate on the other side people are still thinking what's going on here they don't understand the full impact of what's happening but the ideological foundations come from Darwin who takes it from a famous man known as Thomas meltus if you have the 100 most influential people in history by uh har Michael har malus is in there he's mentioned there because of his theory the theory he wrote about was that human beings natural resources grow typically increment so resourc food whatever we survive on grows incrementally but the human population grows exponentially and for that reason if we don't control populations we will run out of resources to make it simpler the resources we have on Earth are not growing as fast as the number of people and so in order for us to survive as a species some human beings have to be called effectively discussion bad still going on because we know what happened a few years ago with Bill Gates and his injections they want to minimize the population especially population that are considered less worthy than other populations so from this idea that he proposed and he started writing about the idea of competition between races began because if you have limited resources and a growing human population a buring population at some point we're going to run out of resources so who has to actually who has the right to survive the fittest and so this race begins this race begins but unfortunately the as I said the outcomes are catastro catastrophic so the European nations have this mentality of competition limited resources growing populations how do we manage in Europe for example in Britain because of this Theory from malus in some of the most impoverished quarters of London I'm talking of London here when they were planning cities they would build them in certain ways and neighborhoods that would promote uh the spread of disease on purpose why would they do that these were Mal not these were underprivileged communities they didn't really have much value for society so creating an environment where disease spreads easily is a way of calling those communities it's a natural way of what calling the communities if you remember a couple of years ago we also had the grand grand greld Tower incident and one of the criticism was that these are poor people and that is why you've allowed for them to live under those circumstances which were very very detrimental because you don't value these people in fact it may actually benefit you to actually have them out the way so you can build so this idea of building poorly so that the impoverished Society doesn't survive comes from this idea again how do we minimize the population how do we make sure that it is less and for those who remain there's a competition perpet for resources it's a very dangerous Foundation whereas in in in Islam the Muslim perspective is we have an abundance of resources there is no competition the provider Rak provides for everyone and he never his stores are never empty so there is no competition to see who can get the most quickly at the expense of another but the world view we're going to look into actually is based on this this premise is there and to this very day we have the same premise so the population of Muslims globally is a concern for many people the the birth rates amongst Muslims is a is a is a fear for many people the population of Africa is a concern for many people it's always linked to resources we don't have enough resources for these people so the project really continues effectively and we can see here that uh what evolves from this is what is known as social Darwinism so from the scientific base or the pseudo scientific base you have a sociological phenomena social Darwinism the uh the obsession with classifying human beings according to races to groups to Social stru and then the competitiveness that follows with that who can get the most resources who can get it quicker who doesn't deserve the resources so on and so forth so social Darwinism is born of this and later on in the century you find for example the Germans take it to another level the Germans take it to another level what the Europeans the Western Europeans France and Britain and Italy did initially was to conquer physically but the Germans took it to another level have Eugenics we find that they take it to the level whereby they actively and proactively trying to create and cultivate the fittest of the fittest and those who don't meet that standard are literally killed yeah so when we talk of Darwinism as being a as being a fact or a science we need to look at the fundamental principles and what is what do it produce what has It produced for Humanity uh over the centuries here we see also based on the same principle you have various books have been written very very famous books actually the bell curve is one of those books which places the dark races is towards the bottom of the IQ curve and the wher Aryan races at the top it's a very controversial book that's caused much discussion you know they're still trying to prove that certain race are naturally less intelligent than others measuring skulls uh if you look at uh Leopold when he was actually ruling Congo they had literal human skulls and you had anthropologists coming to measure the skulls to try and prove or disprove these theories so it's literally a religion at this point it's an ideology that's really got out of control the Germans this is a German uh propaganda piece only healthy seed must be sown okay Eugenics check the SE of her this is effectively saying the Germans at that time were actively looking to find ways to create a superior human being with the best possible jeans blonde eyes blonde hair blue eyes we know the whole story right but they took it to the absolute limit if this is the reality of humanity we need to have the best the highest quality of human being and as a result of that look at the catastrophe that happened even within their own Nation so it gives birth to many many many deplorable ideas and deplorable projects but it doesn't end there the drive for Empire contributed to a spirit of Ruthless militarism so because they were indoctrinated and they believed in these ideas of superiority I'm better than him which we know where that came from I have a better composition better genes I'm more intelligent I have a better origin I am better than him that mentality created a ruthlessness that would inflict the rest of humanity for those of you who do not who are bit screamish I would advise you turn away or you don't look the following images are depicting what happened in Algeria one of the first places to be colonized following this massive project unfortunately for the Algerian population they were subjected to almost 100 Years of absolute Terror absolute Terror and believe me the images I'm showing you here are like they are light compared to the full catalog of what's available online I would not recommend you go and look into it but you look at the soldiers smiling here for them this is just normal they have no problem because they've been indoctrinated they believe genuinely that they are superior Pines of humanity and the people they're dealing with men and women nobody's saved men and women are just natives who need to be civilized and so this ruthless is what they come to Africa and Asia and the Middle East with and the result of it is colonization ruthless colonization when they arrived in North uh in Libya Italians entered Tripoli uh some of the sh would say there's no point fighting these people they are invincible yeah because of the sheer Terror inflicted and the lack of humanity inflicted they did not see these people as human beings at all and they saw their mission as one that was necessary for the continuation of humanity and the balance in humanity so it's an ideological movement before it is a military movement but the science of the Pudo science justifies why it's okay to treat people like this and there are many other examples the beginning of the century in that sense represents a Rubicon from which there could be no return the Rubicon or Crossing the Rubicon is a historical phrase it's an instance in which Julius Caesar he was a governor and when the end of his term came typically the Senators would call you back so you've served your term as a governor you need to come back to Rome for your next assignment but the rule was you were not allowed to come back with your soldiers into Rome because that's a Potential Threat if you bring your soldiers into Rome is a potential poal threat to security so on and so forth so the governor would come back without without any army Caesar decides to do the opposite he decides he's going to enter with his army which is a sign of Confrontation it's a sign of potentially War prior to Cesar no one has had ever done that but Cesar decides he's going to enter Rome with his army and when he comes to the Border region between where he was governing and where Rome was there was a river called the Rubicon and so he's looking at the river and he's told it's looking at the river thinking is he going to cross it because once he crosses the river he's entered Roman territory that's an act of treason a declaration of war and effectively there's no going back once you cross the Rubicon there's no going back okay so that's what the phrase means so in this book they said that the beginning of the century the 20th century was the Rubicon and once that was crossed there no going back there is no going back Life As We As We Knew It Before will never be the same again the entire world has been changed there not going back to the old ways indigenous societies would never be allowed to continue their own Natural Evolution the Traditions that people had how they ruled over themselves how they governed how they organized their tribes the maps that we have today do not represent any of the natural uh organizations it's just a grouping of people based on France wants this part England wants that part so what it used to be will never go back to what it is never ever they will be modernized and in some cases assimilated imperialism would be the engine of Social and economic change and so from 1900 onwards the world literally took on a new character and there is no going back there is no going back to what it used to be I want you to ask yourself this question if you live in if you are native to France to to Italy to the UK to any of these nations in the west how would your life look like today had your government never left and gone to colonize Africa Asia the Middle East and other parts of sou South South America how do you think your life would be your Customs your daily activities the resources you have access to how do you think that would look like today and it's a very uncomfortable question just ask yourself how do you think your economy would look like today if you did not have access to those resources in those lands if things were as they were in 19 in 1850 and remain that way how would Europe be today and for those of us who are from the other side of the equation how would our places look like today if there was no colonization if there was no survival of the fittest if they just left those lands to be as they were to rule themselves as they were ruling themselves how would things look today I can guarantee you one thing we will not have the imbalance we have in the world today I promise you that the balance we have in the world today where you have large populations that are impoverished despite having natural resources in their land and you have populations that have no resources but have all of the finance and all of the leverage in the world things would be very different so we crossed the Rubicon in in 1900 and things as according to this analysis will never go back to how they were the best we can hope for is modernization and is some cases a simulation that the conquered people will evolve to the status of the Conqueror and as we Traverse the rest of the century we're going to see that attempt at Sometimes some of the Muslim thinkers and ideologues will begin to talk of modernizing and uh evolving or catching up to the West right the best we can do is to be like them right imperialism would be the engine of social and economic change very profound social because how we carry ourselves what we've deemed valuable what we aspire to sometimes how we dress how we look at the world from what perspective all of that has been changed our economics I don't even have to explain the economic status you know if you speak to people who lived 50 60 years ago they'll tell you I had friends that will tell me that Nigeria 50 60 years ago the currency was far greater than the British pound you have people who come from Somalia will tell you the same thing 50 60 years ago Somalia was a different completely different world you could see the pictures you could see the development you could see the people happy and many other places similar to that but things changed and what we see today is actually is our is our reality we've come to accept it and for many of us the best we can hope for is to resemble or to evolve into the Conqueror so that's the first part just to understand before we get into the rest of it it was a process that began in the 19th century and the ideological Foundation was the the concept of resources being limited races and Nations competing for resources and the great game among the European nations welcome to history Yun the world's leading online learning platform specializing in Islamic history discover the history Yun mobile app and participate in regular live and interactive seminars and tune in directly from your 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