Based on a fetid
foundation, a mixture of hostility against
Islam, despotism, trickery and turpitude, the
British Empire formerly called itself a state
on which “the sun never sets”.
At the end of their
invasions in the nineteenth century, the
Empire took possession of approximately
one-fourth of the earth’s surface,
colonizing more than one-fourth of the
earth’s population.
India was the most
significant, the most outstanding of the
British colonies. It was India’s tremendous
population of over three hundred million [well
over one billion as of today] and its
inexhaustible natural wealth that earned the
British their universal domination. In the
First World War alone, Britain utilized one
and a half million of India’s population as
fighting soldiers and one billion rupees of
its treasury as ready money. They used most of
these assets in smashing the Ottoman Empire.
In peace time as well, it was India that
helped Britain’s stupendous industries to
survive and sustained the British economy and
finance.
There were two
reasons for India’s being an incomparably
important colony: First, India was a country
where Islam, which the British considered to
be the greatest hindrance to their exploiting
the whole world, was widespread, and Muslims
were in the ascendant in this country. Second,
India’s natural riches. In order to keep
India under their domination, the British
mounted offensives on all the Muslim countries
that had transport links with India, sowed
seeds of mischief and instigation, set
brothers against one another, took these
countries under their domination, and
transported all their natural riches and
national wealth back to their own country. The
perfidious character inherent in the nature of
the British policy proves itself in that they
meticulously followed the movements in the
Ottoman Empire, set the Ottomans on a war with
the Russians by using all sorts of political
stratagems, and thus put them into a position
wherefore it would be impossible for them to
offer any help to India.