Unwanted children

I listened to the latest Talking Politics podcast this morning, which had an interview with the historian Tom Holland about Roman collapse and the present day. One throwaway point he made was that Europe, Russia, the Islamic World, are all descendants of Rome and, before that, Greece and the Near East, and their thought descends from these places. I think this is true, and how artificial it is to divide the Islamic world from Europe or Russia from either. And we, South Asian Muslims who link to both South Asia and to the Turkic/Persian/Arab worlds, fall in a sort of border zone between the Near East and Hind and, at a further remove, China.