Wael Hallaq: The State, Freedom, and How Society Disintegrates

[ZBR]

Also war only increases you in numbers

 

[Idilinaa]

These are some excerpts from this interview

Hallaq is an intresting author. But the islamizcie account is making hallaq look retarded by screenshoting the few fringe views he holds. The idea that china didn't use violence or expand is ridiculous they did towards the interior. He's making him look like a crackpot who doesn't know history

He is right , Europe for centuries was the most savage and violent place in the world and they later just exported that

I remember reading Noam Chomsky explaining this

See how linguistically and ethnically diverse france used to be

Exactly. Premodern France is a good example. The country used to be far more linguistically diverse with regions having their own identity and cultures until the French revolution happened that saw mass assimilation policies and the forced adoption of French by minorities. Heck, even before the revolution the monarchy already made French an official language and started phasing out languages like Occitan.

Meanwhile Somaliweyn only ever had Somali as the majority language. Other languages like Swahili did exist but most minorities adopted Somali on their own as a result of trade and contact with Somalis. To that end, its easier to argue that France is more artificial than Somalia is as the concept of Somalia is based on a single ethnicity and language that was always dominant whereas France had to force itself to be majority French.