Muslims and the British Empire

"Never before in the world was born a nation so well versed in the art of diplomacy and deceit than that which lived in the island separated by the English Channel from the main European continent…But, the great British Empire was not won on the battlefields, but through intrigues and frauds…Britain has proved to be an inveterate enemy of the Muslim world during the last seven or eight centuries. In almost all conspiracies which were started to harm the Muslim countries during the last 250 years or more, Britain’s hand is visible.”

-Khwaja Jamil Ahmad in Britain and Muslims, 1971