To think that, once, the West had held us in its armored hands. It had treated Islam as it treated a natural resource, its invincible armies tearing through the lands of the Faithful like bulldozers. The West had chopped our world up into colonies, and smiled upon us with its awful schizophrenic perfidy. It told us to separate God and State, to separate Mind and Body, to separate Reason and Faith. It had torn us apart.