Comments by "" (@richardkent2014) on "Keir Starmer and Joe Biden hold talks in Washington | BBC News" video.
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By 1911, the British Empire had a Muslim population of 94 million, larger than the empire's 58 million Christian population.[27] By the 1920s, the British Empire included roughly half of the world's Muslim population.[26] More than 400,000 Muslim soldiers of the British Indian Army fought for Britain during World War I, where 62,060 were killed in action.[39] Muslim soldiers of the British Indian Army later fought for Britain against the Nazis in World War II,[40] where Muslim soldiers accounted for up to 40%[41] of the 2.5 million troops serving the British Indian Army.[42] David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922, stated: "we are the greatest Mahomedan power in the world and one-fourth of the population of the British Empire is Mahomedan. There have been no more loyal adherents to the throne and no more effective and loyal supporters of the Empire in its hour of trial." This statement was later reiterated by Gandhi in 1920.[25] Winston Churchill also stated in 1942: "We must not on any account break with the Moslems, who represent a hundred million people, and the main army elements on which we must rely for the immediate fighting."[41]
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@curiositycloset2359
I hope that these comments remain
ifx like the British empire most of the world's Muslim population was living under us before ww1 the population had grown since then and today they try to make everyone look the same Muslims from Russia and the middle east have nothing in common with those under the empire that's where the problems stem from for everyone
The many efforts to revive and resist were largely unsuccessful. By 1818 British hegemony over India was complete, and many other colonies and mandates followed between then and the aftermath of World War I. Not all Muslim territories were colonized, but nearly all experienced some kind of dependency, be it psychological, political, technological, cultural, or economic. Perhaps only the Saudi regime in the central parts of the Arabian Peninsula could be said to have escaped any kind of dependency, but even there oil exploration, begun in the 1930s, brought European interference. In the 19th century Westernization and Islamic activism coexisted and competed. By the turn of the 20th century secular ethnic nationalism had become the most common mode of protest in Islamdom, but the spirit of Islamic reconstruction was also kept alive, either in conjunction with secular nationalism or in opposition to it
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