For those confused about why the al-Qaeda regime in Syria is killing Muslim Kurds, and for those tempted to believe the claim that “terrorism isn’t Islamic because Muslims are also being killed”, read this carefully.

Non-Arab peoples who were forced into Islam were never absorbed into Islam the way Arabs were, and they never will be.

Their ethnic identity and historical memory stand in direct conflict with Arab-Islamic projects of domination, because Islam is simply the Arabization of the world.

When Islam speaks Arabic, it speaks with a voice that is raw, unfiltered, and closer to the ideological furnace from which it was forged.

Arabic is not just the language of Islam’s sacred texts, it is the language of its original imagination, its political ambitions, and its civilizational blueprint.

Islam was built atop the pre-Islamic Arab world’s harsh values: tribal loyalty over individual conscience, honor over mercy, conquest over coexistence, submission over questioning.

Islam did not erase these instincts, it baptized them, canonized them, and universalized them.

The Bedouin code of survival became divine law. The Arab instinct for tribal supremacy became the global mandate of the Ummah. Raid became Jihad.

In short, Islam did not civilize the Arabian Peninsula. It sacralized its savagery.

This is why Arabic-speaking Islam remains the purest, most potent version.

It is Islam in its native environment, free from the tensions and contradictions that arise when Islam migrates into non-Arab cultures.

In Indonesia, in Africa,and in South Asia, Islam must compromise. It must negotiate with older traditions: Buddhist compassion, Hindu metaphysics, tribal pluralism.

Non-Arab Muslims often unconsciously dilute Islam’s harder edges, trying to reconcile what is ultimately irreconcilable: the religion’s rigid supremacy with their native instincts for coexistence.

But Arabic Islam feels no such internal struggle. It is Islam undiluted, unapologetic, and fully at home.

This is why, paradoxically, Arab countries survive Islam’s full force only under secular dictatorships.

Leaders like Nasser, Saddam, and Assad understood that Arabic Islam, if left unbridled, does not produce democracy, tolerance, or pluralism. It produces absolutism, sectarianism, and civilizational warfare.

It can only be contained by a stronger fist than its own, a secular, nationalist power that forces Islam back into the private sphere through sheer force of will.

Without that, the political logic embedded in Arabic Islam will erupt into dominance.

Today, as Islam plants deeper roots in the West, it is not the softened, syncretized Islam of the periphery that is gaining ground.

It is the Arabic Islam, the Islam that knows no shame in demanding supremacy, that sees the nation-state as an obstacle to the Ummah, that uses religious liberty as a Trojan horse until it can close the gates behind it.

Arabic Islam is the version being promoted in mosques, schools, and media outlets across Europe and North America. It is the Islam that carries not just a faith, but an ancient memory of conquest, of zero-sum struggle, of civilizational replacement.

The West imported people and got an ideology instead. It thought it was offering asylum to refugees; it was offering a stage to an ancient ambition.