Jamal Awil

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Christian colonizers viewed colonial rule as beneficial for Muslims. [fact]

Samuel M. Zwemer, one of the most famous – and perhaps the most well published – missionaries to Muslims summed up this view: “In India and Malaysia God’s favor has given us an open door to 100,000,000 Mohammedans. Under Queen Wilhelmina, the Christian Queen of Holland and under George V, the Christian Emperor of India, 100,000,000 Mohammedans are enjoying the blessings of Protestant Christian rule.”

XREF: Connects to broader literature on missionary-colonial entanglements and the 'white man's burden' ideology of the era.

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 113