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This paper critically examines the assertion that “no inch of turf was unoccupied” on Earth when the “myth of Cross or Crescent” emerged, transforming religious doctrines into ideological weapons for invasion, occupation, resource and slave labor extraction committing genocides, ethnocides, and ecocide under the garb clad with “terra nullius”,(empty land)” and civilization mission.
Special attention is paid to the role of “Male hoods”—the patriarchal, male-dominated structures of both religious institutions and military forces—in perpetuating this violence under the guise of “God’s command,” cultural annihilation, the most dangerous than the gun carrying killer militias.
The paper concludes that what was aggressively branded as a civilizing endeavor was, in reality, barbarism without limits, leaving a lasting legacy of injustice and trauma globally that they still don’t think about, let alone do justice to the sheer insanity of the whole criminal enterprise. No, they justify it.
The history of humanity is, in large part, a history of movement, settlement, and interaction with land. Yet, a fundamental premise underpinning much of the world’s colonial and imperial violence rests upon a foundational lie: the concept of “empty land.”
This paper asserts that, by the time the ideological frameworks of the “Cross or Crescent” (representing the expansionist phases of Christianity and Islam) were fully weaponized, virtually “no inch of turf” on Planet Earth was truly unoccupied. Instead, lands were teeming with diverse human societies, complex ecologies, and intricate systems of governance, spirituality, and resource management.
This paper argues that the “myth” of these religious expansions—not as faith systems but as justifications for conquest—provided potent ideological weapons, transforming what was presented as “God’s command” or a “Civilization Mission” into an unparalleled era of “Barbarism without limits.”
Furthermore, it highlights the deeply patriarchal nature of these invasions, embodied in the “Male hoods” that led them, systematically imposing their will and structures upon existing, often more egalitarian, human societies. Through a critical examination of historical narratives, the paper seeks to expose the profound hypocrisy and devastating consequences of these religiously-sanctioned acts of conquest.
The Myth of Empty Land: An Occupied World
The assertion of “Europeans” that “no inch of turf was unoccupied” fundamentally challenges the colonial doctrine of Empty land, which posited that lands not demonstrably “civilized” or settled by European standards were vacant and thus available for appropriation.
This doctrine was instrumental in justifying the forceful seizure of lands from indigenous peoples, the larger, richer and older and civilizations, across Africa, Asia, Americas, and Australia.
The uncomfortable and naked truth of the whole vulgarism, “barbarian, savage, primitive, e.t.c,” a politicized ideological jingoism of Europe dresses used as a smoke and mirror to uplift her inferiority complex to be a hero from zero. To be a torch of world history maker being without having it.
It is also an uncomfortable and stark truth that Europe has generally been and still is the second-smallest, most resource-poor, and wasteful consumer in the world, after the US. Yes, there were some coals nothing more, and that was not enough. Therefore, all that Europe needed (and still needs) to develop, to survive, to fulfill her voracious needs had to (or must) come from abroad at gunpoint.
It explains, in a somewhat macabre manner, the brutality and genocides committed by Europeans who went out into the world to acquire land, resources, and wealth that they then shipped back to Europe and, by extension, the United States for the development and survival of their homeland.
It were not and have never been the older continent Africa, Asia or later named Americas that Europe vilified and called the “Dark continents” in deed it was and is a an insult to the older civilization that stands in front of the eyes of the newcomers to the older civilized world. What they were conveying was about whom they were rather than the oldest world were in the dark waiting for Europe to bring light.
As Eric Wolf 1982 seminal book Europe and the People without History: indicated that Europe comes out of almost over 16 centuries of barbarism, butchering each other from the era of Vikings to the era of “Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, etc.
Their captains navigated as it was called to the “Unknown world” , “New World” “Empty Land,“ crowned as “Explorers,” “Discoverers,” Civilization Missionaries under the banner of The Cross.
The Cross. that the Roman emperors plagiarized spun the oldest collection of the north-west Asian folklore as the best tool to hold political power in one man hands under the mantra “the civilized” and by branding their colonizing mission by naming and shaming them as “barbarians” to the people living beyond the perceived boundaries of their civilized Greeco-Roman world—societies that didn’t share Roman law, language (Latin or Greek) and invaded to civilize them.
They became a primary source for Rome’s vast slave populations, largely, a consequence of warfare and conquest; mass captures during military campaigns. These people, perceived as culturally inferior or simply enemies of the state, were stripped of their freedom and forced into diverse roles across Roman society, from gladiators and miners to domestic servants and agricultural laborers, profoundly impacting Rome’s economy and social structure.
Where was the Civilization of the Older World in 15th century
At the time European captains of the navigators of the newcomers of 15th century were escorted with armed scouts commissioned by their Monarchies to search for turf via seas and oceans coming out of her lethargy, almost over half of the world’s civilizations were accomplished.
Today than ever we know from scientific archaeological, anthropological, and historical evidence overwhelmingly refutes empty land prior to European arrival in the world is a historical crime and could not otherwise that must be told loud and written bold. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Africa: The first greatest the cradle of the world of human beings and human civilization which is no longer a matter of debate but a cornerstone of modern paleoanthropology. The East African Rift Valley, a geologically active region that bisects the Horn, has yielded an unparalleled wealth of hominin fossils, tracing the evolutionary path of our ancestors over millions of years,the unparalleled Anthropological Legacy. The great rift valley bisctes the home of Oromo people ,the great nation of Africa Nation of Kushitic family into two, the East and the west and they call them self’s the people of Great Rift valley of Africa (Gemechu Megersa, and Anessa Kassam, 2019).
The genius of Oromo people developed a unique remarkable system called the Gadaa- Seeqqee Sytem for time Immemorial. The unique civilizations of, indigenous social fabric. Among several master teachers of the history of Oromo, Africa, and the World, Prof. Asmarom Legesse, in one of his books entitled: Oromo democracy: An indigenous African political system, defines:
Oromo Democracy is one of those remarkable creations of the human mind that evolved into a full-fledged system of government, as a result of five centuries of evolution and deliberate, rational, legislative transformation. It contains genuinely African solutions for some of the problems that democracies everywhere have had to face.
Furthermore, Prof. Asafa Jalata, an author of eight books and over sixty research publications, stated:
I have studied the history of the world society, African, European, African–American, Oromo, etc, and I have never seen a system that can be compared to Sirna Gada-Seeqqee System, its complexity, mechanisms of check and balance of power, a civilization that can be able to be the model for the rest of the world suffering from the so-called western democracy of party lines in the 21st century.”
A unique autochthonous socio-political system of an indigenous African people, and one of those remarkable creations of the human mind that evolved into a full-fledged system of administration before the birth of the Athenian, later called the amorphous Western democracy.
As the KMTians (Ancient Egypt) clearly stated:
We KMTians came from the south, where the river Hapi (Nile) springs,” refers to the ancient Egyptian belief that their civilization originated from the south, the direction from which the life-giving Nile River flowed, a concept tied to the Papyrus of Hunfer and their reverence for Hapi, by KMTians, Abbayya (The Father of African Rivers or Mormor by Oromos and Nile from the Greek Neilos, “The God of the river’s annual flood and fertility.
While Hapi was the God, the statement reflects the Ancient Egyptians’ understanding that the Nile’s source was in the south, near the “Mountains of the Moon” (modern-day Rwenzori Mountains, where the river’s “birth” was believed to occur. The White Nile is the southern tributary that converges with the Blue Nile in Khartoum.
What makes the Nile River great and the cradle of a unique African civilization was a Dozen major tributary rivers that originate from the fertile black soils of Oromia in the Northeast African plateaus, including high and lowlands, such as the Jama, Moogor, Gudar, Dhedheesa, and Daboos rivers, among others.
They contribute about 80 % of the water that carries black soil called Kootiichaa in the Oromo language, flowing from south to North. It is the origin of the major Kushitic an d KMtic civilization of the Great Nile Valley,of Nile Valley. The sources of powerful and long-lived Kingdom of Kush. Flourishing primarily in the region of Nubia, modern-day Sudan, developed a sophisticated and distinct culture over millennia. Its history is typically divided into periods centered around successive capitals: Kerma (c. 2500–1500 BCE) showcased early indigenous power, followed by periods of strong Egyptian influence and even direct rule. However, Kush truly asserted its might during the Napata period (c. 1000–300 BCE), when its rulers, known as the ‘Black Pharaohs,’ famously conquered Egypt itself, establishing the illustrious 25th Dynasty and briefly reuniting the Two Lands under Kushitic rule.
After their withdrawal from Egypt, the center of Kushitic power shifted further south to Meroë (c. 300 BCE–350 CE), marking a golden age of unique cultural expression. Here, the Meroitic script, distinct from Egyptian hieroglyphs, was developed, and the kingdom became a major center for iron production, a technological advancement that fueled its economy and trade networks stretching across Africa and to the Red Sea.
Meroë was also notable for its powerful queen regents, the Kandakes, who often wielded significant political and military authority. The legacy of Kush, characterized by its unique pyramids, advanced metallurgy, and independent cultural identity. The ancient Egyptian word for Kush (black) mean KMT (The black Land) their writing. Medu Neter or (hieroglyphs) refers to the fertile black soil deposited by annual inundations. The north their unparalleled architectural feats of KMT, colossal pyramids and temples, stand as eternal testaments to their engineering prowess, their development of a complex hieroglyphic writing system.
The invention of paper derived from the word Papyrus of the River Nile written in Kemmui as (the Ancient Egyptians call them) language Medu-Neter (or hieroglyphics). Kemmui means Black people and KMT means the land of the black people, and black is the symbol of God, the symbol of holiness and divinity except to the mis–educated mimicries and self-deniers and their mind and land colonial masters indeed.
The Kemmui were also the pioneering advances in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, religion shaped intellectual thought whose root stretches back ca- five thousand years BC. to the origin of the Great River Nile springs and KMT (Ancient Egypt was civilization along the River banks were considered as the flower of the African civilization whose stems and roots stretches.thousands of Kilometer to its Orgin,
The highly centralized state, boasting a sophisticated administrative system, the construction of monumental tombs, shaping art, architecture, and religious thought for millennia, and its vibrant culture, defined by resilience, innovation, and a profound connection to the sacred, continues to captivate and inspire, marking it as a foundational pillar of human history. The profound spiritual beliefs, while rich religion an pantheon of gods, and a deep preoccupation with the afterlife, evidenced by elaborate burial practices like mummification.
This paper argues for the recognition of ancient Kushitic civilization in the Horn as a primary cradle, challenging Eurocentric and diffusionist perspectives that have a historically marginalized its contributions. By examining archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidence, we trace the region’s unparalleled significance as the birthplace of Homo sapiens, and subsequently, its autochthonous trajectory towards sophisticated agricultural systems, monumental architecture, urbanism, complex political structures, and advanced material culture.
This re-evaluation positions the Horn not merely as a recipient of external influences but as an independent center of innovation, a vital nexus where humanity’s story began and where early civilization flourished with unique and enduring characteristics.Similarly, vast swathes of Africa were home to powerful empires (e.g., Mali, Great Zimbabwe), intricate tribal federations, and settled agricultural communities long before the Scramble for Africa (Boahen,1987).Yet, these ancient civilizations have not yet gave us their secret.
Asia: The legacy of these pre-colonial Asian civilizations is immense and enduring. Their innovations laid the groundwork for future global development, their philosophies and religions continue to shape billions of lives, and their artistic and architectural marvels inspire awe. Asia civilization were not merely complex; they were often the vanguards of human progress.
China’s unparalleled administrative efficiency, technological innovation, and economic might made it a global superpower. India’s profound spiritual traditions, mathematical genius, and role as a global trade nexus positioned it as a vibrant intellectual and commercial center. Japan’s unique cultural synthesis and distinctive social structures fostered a society of remarkable aesthetic and martial discipline.
And the diverse kingdoms of Southeast Asia harnessed strategic geography and agricultural prowess to build monumental empires and facilitate extensive trade.
These civilizations developed independently or through mutual interaction, creating a rich tapestry of political systems, economic networks, social organizations, and cultural achievements that often surpassed their contemporary European counterparts in various metrics, including medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and metallurgy. They fostered vast trade networks, like the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean routes, which interconnected the Eurasian landmass and beyond, demonstrating a world far more integrated than often portrayed by Eurocentric historical narratives.
Americas:The sophisticated civilizations such as the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans, alongside countless smaller nations and tribal groups, all with established geopolitical boundaries, complex trade networks, and diverse agricultural practices (Mann, 2005).
.Australia’s Aboriginal peoples: For millennia, developed intricate systems of land stewardship, spiritual connection, and customary law that governed every aspect of their interaction with their territories (Pascoe, 2014).
The logic of Absolute Denial
It was first Rome who vilified and destroyed and plundered and shipped Africa and Asian wisdom’s, properties and land masses. Most significantly the entire civilization of Africa that Saafu Khepra called the Diopain principle named after the great Senegalese historian and writer the polymath son of Africa Cheikh Anta Diop that prophetical stated “We can’t beat them since we were not there at the beginning, so let’s deny it and keep on denying.”
Denying naked truth has been the foundation of all colonial enterprises and Europeans could not e otherwise. A dangerous inhuman tool of psychological self-preservation, shielding the ego from uncomfortable realities of failures, impending loss, or inconvenient truths about one’s own character. This self-deception may provide temporary solace, preserving a sense of self-worth or deferring the pain of radical acceptance desperate bid for social or systemic stability.
Collectively, denial can maintain social harmony, protect cherished narratives, or uphold existing power structures; ignore embedded prejudices to preserve an idealized self-image.
However, this “role,” while offering short-term relief or stability, invariably comes at a profound cost. By refusing to acknowledge foundational realities, denial prevents genuine growth, innovation, and problem-solving. It allows issues to fester, leading to a build-up of unaddressed complexities that often erupt with greater destructive force later on from generations to generations.
Ultimately, the “role” of denying naked truth is to create a temporary, fragile bubble, postponing an inevitable reckoning and often exacerbating the very problems it sought to avoid, thereby eroding trust, fostering disillusionment, and hindering genuine progress. That is all about European cultural nurturing visa a vis the rest of the world she encountered throughout historical accounts to the present.
Understanding their complexity and achievements is not merely an academic exercise; it is crucial for a balanced and comprehensive understanding challenging reductionist , denialsts views and affirming the central role of global history of humanity the pinnacle of human civilization.
These societies, regardless of their technological or political structures from a Eurocentric viewpoint, all maintained active occupancy, management, and often profound spiritual connections to their lands. Their landscapes were not untouched wilderness but rather carefully managed environments shaped by human activity, agricultural practice, and spiritual belief.
The language of “discovery” and “unoccupied land” served precisely to dehumanize existing populations, erase their sovereignty, and legitimize their dispossession, paving the way for the brutal imposition of foreign rule. The logic of Elimination that the African polymath Achille Membe coined Necropolitics: a work of Death
The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power. This sums up what Michel Foucault meant by biopower: that domain of life over which power has asserted its control.…
It was enough to suggest the presence of bone, a skull, or a skeleton inside the element. This bone, this skull, and this skeleton all have names: re-population of the Earth, exit from democracy, society of enmity, relation without desire, voice of blood, and terror and counter terror as our time’s medication and poison.
The Cross and Crescent as Ideological Weapons
The historical trajectory of both Christianity and Islam, particularly during their periods of expansion, reveals how deeply spiritual doctrines could be reinterpreted and leveraged as potent ideological weapons for conquest.
Under the banner of divine mandate and promises of salvation or righteous rule, vast empires were forged, and diverse peoples subjugated, with religious fervor often serving as the primary justification for territorial acquisition and violent subjugation. Yet, this grand narrative of divinely sanctioned expansion conspicuously sidelined, indeed largely omitted, the experiences and voices of women.
While both faiths claimed to transmit the unequivocal “word of God,” the sacred texts themselves, and their subsequent interpretations and codifications, were overwhelmingly the product of male scholarship, male authority, and often, anonymously penned male perspectives. The foundational male-centric authorship not only shaped the theological frameworks but also implicitly sanctioned the patriarchal structures that defined societal roles and power dynamics for centuries, rendering “God’s word” a reflection of human, specifically male, sociopolitical realities rather than a truly universal divine utterance.
Unless we live in the captivity of mind what ever the case may be the simple basic question but the very import one is that where did the females, mother, sisters, and spouse half of the society and yet called the true and sacred “Word of God” ? Fact is there is no male with female or visa a vis. that is an immutable law of Life and Nature? Even more tragic they have been installed as a dead enemy against each other even worst within themselves under countless names and versions carrying and preaching in the same book?
The Captivity of Mind and the Missing Half
The human mind, in its quest for meaning, often finds solace and structure in belief systems, particularly and Christianity and Islam represents it self as “true faiths,” definitive truths, claiming to transmit the “unequivocal word of God” through their texts: the Bible and the Qur’an. Yet, beneath the veneer of divine authority and universally accepted dogma, a profound and unsettling question often remains unasked, suppressed by what can only be described as a “captivity of mind”—an unquestioning acceptance of dominant narratives, particularly those with spiritual gravitas. This critical inquiry begins with a stark observation: where are the females, the mothers, sisters, and spouses—half of human society—in these foundational narratives and the structures they engender?
The absence or marginalization of women in religious texts, leadership, and theological discourse is not merely an oversight; it is a systemic lacuna that begs fundamental questions about the nature of the divine, the process of textual transmission, and the very concept of sacredness. it is crucial to break free from the “captivity of mind” by posing three interconnected, yet profoundly challenging, questions directed at the heart of Christian and Muslim claims to absolute truth:
Whose God?: If these texts embody the word of God, why does this divine entity consistently appear to endorse or reflect patriarchal human social structures?
Who wrote it?: Given the claim of unequivocal divine authorship, what role did human agents play in the inscription, redaction, and canonization of these texts, and how might their biases have shaped the “word of God”?
What is sacred about its content?: If sacredness implies universal truth and ethical perfection, how can content that systematically diminishes or silences half of humanity maintain its claim to inherent sanctity?
The Crescent: Early Islamic Expansion
The early Islamic conquests, beginning in the 7th century CE, rapidly spread across the Middle East, North Africa, and into parts of Europe and Asia. While motivated by a complex mix of religious fervor, political ambition, and economic factors, the concept of jihad (often interpreted as holy struggle) and the division of the world into Dār al-Islām (the abode of Islam) and Dār al-Ḥarb (the abode of war) provided a powerful framework for expansion (Kennedy, 2004).
The promise of reward in the afterlife for those who died in battle for the faith, coupled with the imposition of jizya (a tax on non-Muslims) and the option of conversion, served as a comprehensive strategy for territorial acquisition and the consolidation of power. While Islamic law often protected “People of the Book” (Jews and Christians) as dhimmis, allowing them to practice their faith under certain conditions, the primary goal was the expansion of Islamic rule and the establishment of a caliphate, often through military conquest over existing political entities and populations.
This expansion was not into empty lands but into established empires and kingdoms—Byzantine, Sasanian, Visigothic Spain, and various North African and Central Asian polities.
The Cross: Crusades and European Colonialism
Similarly, Christian expansion, particularly from the late 11th century with the Crusades and later during the Age of Exploration, employed its religious doctrines for territorial and political gain. The Crusades, initially aimed at reclaiming the Holy Land from Muslim rule, were explicitly sanctioned by the Papacy as “holy wars” offering spiritual salvation to participants (Riley-Smith, 2005). This concept of a religiously mandated war against infidels or heathens would later be resurrected and adapted to justify European colonial expansion globally.
The Papal Bulls of the 15th century, such as Dum Diversas (1452) and Inter Caetera (1493), explicitly granted Christian monarchs the right to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, duchies, principalities… and other property whatsoever held and possessed by them, and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”
This “Doctrine of Discovery” became the legal and theological bedrock for European powers to claim lands and subjugate peoples across the Americas, Africa, and beyond (Miller et al., 2010). The “Cross” thus became an emblem not merely of faith, but of conquest, enslavement, and the spiritual and physical subjugation of non-Christian populations, turning the “myth” of religious superiority into a license for invasion.
“Male Hoods”: Patriarchal Domination and the Imposition of Order of Christianity ad Islamic
The evocative phrase ‘male hoods’ which is often used in the Abrahamic religions, both Islamic and Christian, underlines the intensely patriarchal character of these expansionist movements. These invasions were overwhelmingly conceived, directed, and carried out by men, who then imposed their male-dominated social structure on the conquered peoples. Bear in mind that there is no archeological, real historical person by the name of Abraham outside of the Torah and the Bible, that serves a theological purpose, and there is no scientific evidence.
In both Islamic and Christian expansion, military leadership was almost exclusively male. Caliphs, Sultans, Popes, Kings, and generals—all were men, operating within and reinforcing deeply patriarchal religious and political systems. The invading forces themselves were composed predominantly of male soldiers, who, in addition to physical conquest, often engaged in sexual violence, further entrenching male dominance and demoralizing conquered populations (Spivak, 1988).
Beyond the battlefield, the “civilization mission” championed by these “Male hoods” entailed the systematic dismantling of existing indigenous gender relations and the imposition of a rigid patriarchal order.
Many indigenous societies, particularly in the Americas and Africa, possessed more fluid, complementary, or even matrilineal gender roles, with women often holding significant spiritual, economic, and political power (Perdue, 1999; Oyěwùmí, 1997).
The arrival of European colonizers, driven by Judeo-Christian patriarchal norms, often suppressed these roles, relegated women to domestic spheres, and introduced new forms of gendered violence and exploitation.
The “Hoods” here represent not just individual men, but the entire ideological and structural edifice of male supremacy that was foundational to both the invading cultures and the systems they sought to implant globally. This imposition was integral to their notion of “civilizing” the “barbaric” natives, enforcing a specific, male-dominated social hierarchy as part of “God’s command.”
The “Civilization Mission”: Indeed Barbarism Without Limits
The grand rhetoric of the “Civilization Mission”—to bring light, order, true religion, and progress to the “savage” or “uncivilized” peoples—stands in stark contrast to the unparalleled barbarity that characterized these invasions. Under the veneer of divine mandate and benevolent upliftment, colonizers unleashed a torrent of violence and destruction.
Genocide and Demographic Catastrophe: In the Americas, the arrival of Europeans led to a demographic collapse of indigenous populations on an unprecedented scale, primarily due to disease, but also through systematic massacres, forced labor, and deliberate starvation (Stannard, 1992). This was not merely an unfortunate consequence but often an explicit strategy to clear land for settlement.
Slavery and Forced Labor: Both Islamic and Christian empires engaged in extensive systems of slavery. The transatlantic slave trade, driven by European powers and sanctioned by theological arguments, forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas, reducing them to chattel and exploiting their labor for centuries (Beckles, 2016). Similarly, indigenous populations were subjected to forced labor regimes (e.g., encomienda and mita systems in Spanish America) that decimated communities and destroyed ways of life.
Cultural and Spiritual Eradication: Missionaries, often integral to the “civilization mission,” actively sought to destroy indigenous spiritual practices, languages, and cultural traditions, deeming them pagan or demonic. Sacred sites were desecrated, spiritual leaders persecuted, and children forcibly removed from their families to be “re-educated” in colonial institutions (e.g., residential schools in Canada and the US, missions in Australia), leading to profound intergenerational trauma (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015).
Resource Extraction and Ecological Devastation: The primary economic motivation for many invasions was the insatiable demand for resources—gold, silver, timber, furs, land. This led to rapacious extraction practices that devastated indigenous economies and irrevocably altered ecosystems, often driven by a colonial logic of exploiting nature for profit rather than living in harmony with it (Crosby, 1986).
Political Dispossession and the Imposition of Alien Governance: Existing indigenous systems of governance, law, and social organization were systematically dismantled and replaced with colonial administrative structures designed to benefit the colonizers. This resulted in the total loss of political autonomy for countless nations and the imposition of artificial borders that continue to fuel conflict today.
These acts, far from “civilizing,” represent a profound and “unlimited barbarism” that reshaped the world through violence, exploitation, and the deliberate destruction of pre-existing life-ways. The “God’s command” served as the ultimate moral alibi for systematic cruelty and unparalleled avarice, leaving a legacy of profound injustice that persists to this day.
Conclusion
The assertion that “no inch of turf which is not occupied on planet earth at the time of the myth of Cross or Crescent was born” is not hyperbole but a crucial historical correction. It reframes the age of religious expansion and European colonialism not as periods of “discovery” or “civilization” but as an intentional project of invasion, dispossession, and violence against established, diverse, and sovereign peoples.
The ideological weapons of the “Cross or Crescent,” wielded by “Male hoods” operating under the guise of “God’s command,” unleashed a “Civilization Mission” that was, in its practical application, nothing short of “Barbarism without limits.”
The legacy of this barbarism is etched into the global landscape: in stolen lands, enduring poverty, intergenerational trauma, persistent racial hierarchies, and ongoing struggles for decolonization.
Understanding this history demands a dismantling of the myths that continue to obscure it, recognizing that the foundations of modern global power structures are built upon acts of profound injustice. Only by confronting the reality of this past can societies truly begin to address the enduring impacts of colonialism and work towards a more equitable and just future.