The power of the battle we witness in the history concerning the demolition of the Khilafah (as we will see) ought not come to us as an astonishment. The battle in the middle of Islam and Kufr is as old as time. All the Prophets occupied with this battle. Nuh (as) battled against his kin for just about a thousand years, whilst they planned against him and his Muslim supporters. Hud (as) battled against 'Ad, Salih (as) against Thamud. Ibrahim (as) experienced an extraordinary battle with his own particular tribe such that they tried to blaze him alive. Musa (as) confronted the plots of Firawn, and Muhammad (saw), the last Messenger, was liable to much abuse from the polytheists of Makkah, who tried to complete him and his call to Islam.
Hence we see that the battle in the middle of Islam and kufr is a progressing one and is an unquestionable reality. It is a battle established in philosophy, and will essentially exist at whatever point two individuals convey contending perspectives and look to execute them in life. As Allah makes it clear, in plain dialect,
“Verily, the disbelievers are ever unto you open enemies.” [Qur'an Surat al-Nisa’: 101]
That is, those skeptics who look to battle against you and try to detract individuals from the deen of Allah (swt) are open adversaries to you.
In accordance with the open, the last devastation of the Khilafah State was not the first run through the Europeans had assaulted the Muslims. The primary assault came much before as the Crusades. The Crusaders came south into the Muslims arrives looking for blessed success and to battle the "heathen" Muslims whom they considered an "abhorrent" race.
Tending to the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II aroused the Christians of Europe to a religious war against the Muslims, saying:
“Most beloved brethren: Urged by necessity, I, Urban, by the permission of God chief bishop and prelate over the whole world, have come into these parts as an ambassador with a divine admonition to you…O sons of God, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked your brethren in the East and have conquered the territory of Romania…On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ’s heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot- soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends.”
The Christian crusaders won a few fights. The Muslims won the war. Salah al-Din asked the crusaders to take a hike with his conclusive triumph at Hittin in 1187. Imperatively, if the Europeans learnt anything from the Crusades, it was that looking to annihilation the Muslims militarily alone was unimaginable. They learnt, but while making things as difficult as possible, that the genuine quality of the Muslims was their aqeedah, their convictions, which pushed them to yield everything in the way of Allah, which pushed them to be united under one authority, which pushed them to have no apprehension of death and no common connection to life. The following European assault was hence significantly more exhaustive, as we should see.
Annihilation of the Khilafah
The Khilafah was officially annulled on the 28th of Rajab 1342AH, which relates in the Gregorian schedule to the 3rd of March 1924. However this was not an one- off assault. Maybe it was the zenith of three centuries of work by the Western forces. Besides, it is imperative to admire that the measures taken by the Western forces were not of any one sort. There was a mixture of assaults. It was not just a social intrusion through preacher work. It was not just a political intrusion through actuated resistance. It was not just a military assault through war and intrusion. It was not just a legitimate intrusion through burden of Western laws. It was not just the co-selecting of specialists. It was not any of these things. It was these together. Just these together, over a time of right around three hundred years, and during a period of chronicled shortcoming of the Ummah, were the kuffar ready to cut down the may and eminence of the Islamic State.