Salam,
We are products of the end of coloninalism.. nationalism was really a way for europeans to go back to the safety of the fiefdoms,,nobody wanted to share land with the foreign influx...the Russian immigration to Geramny..it was a way to say this land is my land not your land...this land was made for me and my kind...i have simplified it...our early politicians were Oxford educated men...and we emulated the west...until something happened in Iran in the 1970 and now we need to reevualte our values and remember we are Muslim first.