>So what gives a “colony” no legitimacy or right to exist?
So your friends in Iran give you a few billion dollars a year in aid and you take over, I don’t know… let’s say – Maine. What do you think the good folks in Lobster Land would have to say about it? Helps if you were to add that God gave you the land since you need a place for Muslims to live free of persecution. You had checked out Ireland and Sweden but God told you Maine was the spot.
When Canada, Mexico and the USA start to get a bit angry, you fly over to Canada (the strongest military at the time) and take out all their major weapons in a preemptive strike that lasts a few weeks. Next you roll over to the USA and Mexico to finish the job.
A few moons later, when these countries, joined by Belize, Panama and Guatemala (know as the Christian World) band together to fight, your friends in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia give you all the extra help you didn’t really need to fight them for 6 days.
After this, you expand to take New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts and start calling Christians terrorists. In the process you have created the largest refugee situation in the world. You say they are refugees by choice since 80% of those you displaced live within 50 miles of the homes you colonized back in 1948. Plenty of them can even see the bulldozed towns where their family lived for generations.
What is so strange about that? I mean, it happened a mere 58 years ago and plenty of folks who resided in Main are still alive and kicking. Damned Christians terrorists are never happy…