Barbarism of West: Europe and Its Wars

Although the history of different nations recorded an extensive record of wars, it did not place the countries that caused the wars on a single scale, especially if we look at it through the size of the population ratios and the privileges available to them. The Western European model and what emerged from it by its title stand out as a striking model in human history, especially since its vitality in the issue of making wars continues to characterize its civilization until today. 

European history is characterized by having the most wars and bloodshed, regardless of what happened in its history or what it does in its contemporary reality, and its global record rates maintain the highest rates, without competition from anyone from any other civilizational group. Despite the multiple factors that are usually involved in making wars, the West is distinguished by the fact that its religious reality in the Middle Ages does not differ in this quality from its secular and atheistic reality in later eras, all the way to the reality we live in today.

Wars and killing are a general characteristic of the history of civilizations. The East, to be fair, was not peaceful. So what did the West do that the East did not do? This question seems strongly fallacious, because civilizational construction is based only on the duality of: "propulsion and cooperation", "construction and protection". Therefore, we can easily see the civilization built by the Easterners throughout history, but where is the Western civilization? 

We should not be tempted by what Europe has reached today - ostensibly - as this is only intended to hide the bloodiest and most abhorrent racist civilizations, stemming from the white man’s superiority. 

Those who follow the path of the contemporary West will find that it is a distorted copy of the civilizations that preceded it, which were frantically seeking to get rid of any other civilization, a civilization that does not accept anything else. 

History is a witness that does not lie. We can see when the Europeans arrived in North America, where they completely and bloodily exterminated the indigenous peoples. We can also talk about slavery and racism, and what Europeans did to the Africans, where they enslaved and transported them to America. 

It can be said that this standard rate applies to all types of wars that the West fought, such as wars of religious, racial, or cultural genocide, wars of colonialism, wars of the slave trade, wars of mass destruction, and the like. The West has achieved the highest numbers in the list of these types of wars in the land in which it was present. We can hardly be wrong if we say: There is no contemporary Western country that does not find its historical heritage filled with crimes and killing, which has become one of the foundations of the existence of these countries, without any difference between the blood of its citizens or the blood of their counterparts in other countries, whether fighters or civilians.

What is astonishing is that the huge gap between the way of thinking in the Middle Ages - which claimed to speak on behalf of Allah - and the way that claimed to be the opposite of what came before - where it dethroned Allah as the philosophers and thinkers of atheism claimed – led, in terms of the outcome, to the same result in the world of conflict and wars. The numbers that resulted in medieval wars are similar, in style, to the numbers produced by the wars of contemporary Western civilization, if we keep the difference, in terms of population number and the development in death techniques and weapons. In all cases, their numbers are superior to the numbers of wars produced by other civilizations.

Although the world suffered so much, as a result of the series of bloody attacks that this civilization waged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beginning with the Napoleonic wars, and passing through the Austrian wars and the wars of Italian unification and the like, all the way to the first and second world wars and the resulting loss of tens of millions of lives in a period that is unparalleled by any period in global history in terms of the European human being’s skill in spreading death, enslavement, and the violation of sanctities. Although this stage was an opportunity for the killers of the West to become aware of what they had committed, and despite the work between nations to formulate mechanisms that would prevent wars, but what we saw after World War II is that the treaties that were approved, instead of being an institution for establishing peace, it turned into an element to arouse European people’s greed for people’s resources, which led them to shed more blood distributed among Asia and Latin America, as well as Africa. 

What the Europeans did not do with their own hands, they replaced it with what is known as neo-colonialism, and established dictatorships in countries that became known as the Third World, to carry out the European mission on its behalf, including guidance, motivation, and declared and undeclared coverage, as long as it continues to kill and spread wars of all kinds. However, the practical outcome is a long series of wars that began with the Indochina Wars at the end of World War II, continued during the days of the Cold War, and then began to rage more after the end of the Soviet Union, and what we see today of outrageous crimes in Gaza. 

Here the Westerner is in the Ukrainian crisis, the Taiwanese crisis, and the Zionist crisis to make wars that are more violent and destructive than what the Earth has witnessed in all of its history. Indeed, previous wars may be simple compared to what is being prepared for future wars, as European tyranny and arrogance have overcome any value related to human humanity, so industries and technologies have been used to provide the tools and mechanisms of killing in any war. Any review of what wars and peace research mentions - about the terrifying numbers of what armies were supplied with - is sufficient to know where humanity, which led by the West, is being led.

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Undoubtedly, this tendency to oppress people and expose them to death did not result by coincidence. If we look at that from the ethical side, or the theorizing of political philosophy, or economic or psychological justification, it leads to one truth: The Western mind is built on the basis of not submitting to any restriction that stands against the ego, and the manifestations of tyranny and arrogance that it produces, even if that means shedding the blood of the whole world.

Since the Westerner abandoned the valuable and standard constant, and said that values and ethics are the product of reality, considering them a relative matter that adapts according to its benefits or interests; since philosophy and ideas were removed from the world of reason and meaning, and turned into a mere reflection of social reality and its requirements; and since this reality is created by the controlling forces - not by what the peoples create - We will not wait for philosophy and political theorizing to shift from the path of arrogance and tyranny to what is opposite to it. On the contrary, when political and moral philosophy dethroned Allah, Almighty, and lowered man from the status of divine honor to the status of animal hierarchy, conflict became the law that governs, and in this conflict only the strongest will survive. This survival is governed by submission to the super man, as Nietzsche puts it! What do you expect from results reflected on the reality by its makers, not those who live alongside it?

In fact, we should not be overly shocked by the West's behavior towards Gaza massacres, because the mind that dares to exclude “Allah” from being a moral high authority, on which morality is based, is closer to disbelieving in values, and is more capable of committing crime with cold blood. Westerners have lacked any sense of awe, because they are driven by the illusion of power, and nothing can deter them from their quest to subjugate nature. This idea is one of the radical ideas in the mind and depths of the Western conscience. This is an idea that is not separate from the Westerner’s loss of the divine foundations of morality; and his lack of respect for the idea of the Creator; which makes a person go through his life humble before the majesty and holiness of the human spirit, which is derived from the Creator, and not the contractual holiness that can be violated at any moment. 

Although European thought, due to the bloody results of the conflict, tended to the principle of the social contract, as codified by Thomas Hobbes or Jean-Jacques Rousseau and their likes, and a huge amount of texts regulating social unity were mobilized in the form of laws, constitutions, treaties and agreements, but the question remains urgent about the extent of the usefulness of these systems in preventing the outbreak of wars or promoting them, especially since reality has proven that the most ferocious wars came after the emergence of law and similar means of control and systems! The situation in Gaza at the present time is clear evidence of the fragility and futility of this law.

Westerner is codified on the basis of the view of Thomas Hobbes, which says: "Every human being is the enemy of every human being"; and is up brought on the foundations of the struggle for survival, as Darwin depicts it, and that conflict is the character of life as you find it in Marx. While Freud decided that man is strongly inclined to satisfy his aggressive need at the expense of his neighbor, to exploit his work without compensation, to use him sexually without his will, to seize his property and humiliate him, to inflict pain on him, persecute him, and kill him. "Man to man is a wolf". Malthus also depicted for him his miserable equation about the depletion of the resources of human life unless others are eliminated. When Westerner is stripped of the sanctity of morality and replaced with the morality of instrumental pragmatism based on the values of benefit, then what is useless has no virtue, so it is given the despair of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism. All of this is within the framework of the tendency of capitalist selfishness that does not care about others. 

All of these ideas and theories, and the like, are caused by the authoritarian powers’ need for them in order to justify their atrocities and crimes, and then work to provide them with weapons of destruction and lethal techniques for control, tyranny and oppression. 

Do you expect anything other than war and destruction as a result of them?

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Whatever the matter, the second issue of Oumam magazine, which will be under the title: "Barbarism of West: Europe and Its Wars", represents the first part of an issue that will come in two parts. In the first, which is in our hands, we try to shed light on the wars that the Europeans fought. The second will present the wars fought by the United States of America.

It goes without saying that the research contained in the first part of the second issue will not chronicle all the wars that Europe has fought in its history, as that would require volumes. Rather, we present some examples of them, through two research papers related to European thought, which is dominated by the philosophy of force, tyranny, and murder, to point out to a deep-rooted Western mentality that believes in force, not justice, as well as only victory, power, hegemony, and tyranny determine the status of every state, and through which rights are determined. 

The West is not the product of humanism, science, morals, or values. Rather, it is, first and foremost, the product of injustice, persecution, savagery, and barbarism.

firstly because the act of killing was strongly linked to the political and philosophical transformations witnessed in the modern stage, through which the concepts of the state and sovereignty were rebuilt. Secondly, and this is specific to post-modern philosophy, because the act of killing is criticized for causing actions that go beyond the modern conception of killing in life, such as issues related to mutilation, disability, and death. This is what made philosophers confront it with analysis and criticism, especially since it came accompanied by violence after the entire world had settled that contemporary life was dominated by peace and security. But it turns out that the idea of security that the state - as the holder of power - seeks to ensure, at the same time conceals a killing different from that which existed before. If killing was previously in exchange for life, that is, to defend life, then life itself in the contemporary understanding, as Michel Foucault shows, is what drives death. 

To achieve what we were aiming for, we asked the following questions: What is killing and what is its relationship to death? How can we find the moral commandment in prohibiting killing? Can we make a philosophical argument against killing?

within a careful reading of historical events with the aim of justifying the conquered peoples and revealing and revealing the circumstances associated with the European expansion (Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French) in South America and North America during the 16th and 17th centuries AD, and clarifying the forms of violence and crimes committed and the ugliness of what they committed, which is considered an organized and systematic crime against humanity, despite the attempts of many colonial circles to erase and deny it, and to refute the circulating ideas that what happened is a natural event during wartime and does not rise to the level of genocide, but rather it is just self-defense. This study sought to prove the bloody and racist practices that led to the annihilation of people and places, it was not just an annihilation but several annihilations: the annihilation of indigenous races, the desecration of the land, the destruction of the population, the marginalization of the cultural and civilizational heritage and erasure it from local and human memory.

and the alienation of human values due to the brutal massacres and genocide that Gaza is being exposed to, and the Zionists carrying out horrific war crimes. If we want to know the criminal doctrine of the Zionists and its formation, we must know their political environment from which they came in the European diaspora. This helps us understand the Western and American role in supporting terrorism and extremism. 

This study will shed light on extremism and terrorism in Europe during the Middle Ages, by adopting the objective historical approach, presenting and analyzing scenes of historical events that occurred in the Central European era, and clarifying the roots of terrorism, extremism and the rejection of the other in that era. 

Here, we raise the problem of how religious wars shaped the history of Central Europe and left their bloody terrorist mark on human history to this day? Then we ask the question: Were these bloody historical milestones real for projects of enlightenment, patriotism, and world peace, or were they an episode of global terrorism and extremism that we witness today?

and pointed out the determinants of colonial discourse, by relying on the descriptive historical approach that most appropriate to the topic. We chose four examples of colonial crimes in Africa, but we limited ourselves to mention the most brutal of them, which are the crimes of genocide in Algeria during the 19th and 20th centuries, "Diabe" and "Makondi" massacres in Ivory Coast, then the crimes of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, and the conclusion was the crimes of German colonialism in Namibia. While we chose the crimes of British colonialism in India, and the crimes of French colonialism in Indochina, as examples of crimes carried out in Asia. 

The content of this research requires more documentation effort - to enumerate all the crimes of colonialism in the rest of the world continents starting from the 16th century AD - and analyzing the colonial discourse by delving more deeply into its structure.

in the period before European colonialism, by presenting the most important peoples who were able to reach the continent before the Europeans knew about it, and the civilizations that arose and flourished before the continent was exposed to European invasion, the most important of them are: Aztec, Inca, and Mayan civilizations. The research contains a brief description of this continent and the progress it has achieved. It also addresses the first European invasions of the continent, in particular the four voyages of Columbus, the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci and the traveler Alvarez, and the discoveries that occurred. Then, we discussed the European expansion into the continent, the systematic destruction of the ancient civilizations that had existed until that time, the plundering of the continent’s resources, killing its inhabitants and the replacement of them with the African ones. 

The research concluded the most important negative consequences of European colonialism of the continent and the plundering of resources, depopulation, and change in the nature of American societies there.

The purpose of the research is to show the brutal European model for what it is exactly, through showing practices on civilians and military personnel, and presenting the extent of hatred among Europeans, which led to the destruction of infrastructure of all kinds. To deal with the issues and ideas that were raised, we also relied on the descriptive and analytical approach, reaching results that showed images of European brutality of all kinds and methods in the two world wars, perhaps the most notable of which was the fall of a large number of innocent people, due to using internationally banned gases, genocides, plundering, and famines that accompanied them, which led to increase the number of displaced persons in European countries.

The research was concluded with recommendations, the most prominent of which were: Holding conferences and seminars to introduce the First and Second World Wars, clarifying the extent of the seriousness of the European brutality that was practiced against humanity in the twentieth century, and showing the Europeans’ lie in claiming democracy and spreading freedom and humanity as they portrayed them to us. 

The research will clarify and explain all of this through three sections: Firstly, the motives of the First and Second World Wars, secondly, examining the brutality of the Europeans on the military level, and thirdly, examining the brutality of the Europeans on the social level.

which they established during their expansion from ancient history (Greek and Roman), through the Middle Ages, inside and outside the European continent, up to modern and contemporary history.

The significance of this research lies in its focus on a profoundly humane issue, and because it sheds light on the extreme cruelty that prisoners suffered in the Greek and Roman eras, and in Latin Europe. It examines the methods and tools of torture employed, the types of prisons, the role of churches and clergy in the torture process, and subsequently turns out the psychological impacts resulting from the extent of human oppression and the responses of humanist thinkers, the dilemma of conscience and morality. It also shows what happened in detention and torture camps in European history during the Middle Ages, also during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. In addition to that, the research extends to modern and contemporary colonialism in Africa, North Africa, and Asia, where actions often exceeded the limits of inhumanity. A notable challenge in this research was the scarcity of sources and references, which provide historical material, either intentionally or unintentionally.

 starting from the Greek and Roman wars, to the crimes of European colonialism in the continents of Asia and Africa. The aim is to document the results of the most prominent European wars that broke out for many motives - including the expansion of influence and control over wealth and markets. The most prominent of these results are the numbers of military and civilian deaths, arbitrary arrests, forced displacement, famine, the slave trade, the spread of diseases as a systematic policy to exterminate peoples, and other war crimes in the European history.

With the spread of the concept of fair war - as a theory that emphasizes consideration of morality in war - it was necessary to learn about this concept and its most important foundations and principles from which it starts, and to compare these principles with Islamic teachings and morals, and to explain the differences and commonalities between them, especially in terms of justifying the legitimacy of war, while taking into account and preserving the origin of human dignity, and then explaining the most important Islamic morals in war.

Therefore, this research explained the concept of fair war and its principles, Islam’s view of war and how to justify it, the most important Islamic morals of war, and a comparison between the principles and morals of war in Islam and in the theory of fair war.

mankind is an individual, self-being, with priority in himself, so they moved towards that self and recommended the necessity of preoccupation with it. They emphasized that he could not be himself without living his abstract nature as it is, even in the subject of his pleasures, desires, and instincts.

In general, Greek philosophy’s understanding of nature was reflected even in its awareness of morality, which gave it a natural, sensual dimension, away from any superhuman obligations and restrictions. This is why we noticed how sensual pleasures in the Greek era (Aphrodisias: the pleasures of the body without the pleasures of the soul) were extended and wide-ranging in thought and action, so that many interpretations were given for them and for all the sensual instinctive tendencies, covered with ethics and moral visions from their origins.

With the advent of Christianity, the situation was completely reversed. All moral thinking focused on calling on the believer to dominate his pleasures and desires as a sign of his faith and spiritual victory, with an emphasis on purity as a path to total salvation. So, morals in the modern Western philosophical mind ended up as a sensual positivism, which made dealing with mankind - and everything related to him – a subject of possible scientific knowledge, far from any relationship with the human moral standard itself and far from any spiritual meanings. This is what affected Western political thought, which witnessed and continues to witness a complete absence of morality as a standard and condition for practicing politics.

through which we aim to reveal the truth about the barbaric European culture that was not faithful to its enlightenment principles, and to know the nature of complex and complex thought. We relied on the analytical and critical approach, to reach the following results: The culture of Europe is a colonial culture that wants to impose its logic and control, despite its inclusion of what was essentially humanism. From that, we conclude that it is necessary for the Arab mind to wake up from the lie: “Europe’s pure humanity,” and to benefit from the self-criticism practiced by "Moran", while working on self-building and developing infrastructure in anticipation of any physical, symbolic and cultural European attack.