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Posted by The Ummah is dead. Middle Eastern dilettantes killed it. The governments of the Middle East have no love and no concern for any other Muslims around the world other than trying figure out how to use us for their purposes. Nor should they care for the rest of us. Let them take care of their problems and the rest of us will take care of our problems. Don’t lecture me about Muslim solidarity until those who claim to be the true keepers of my religion start to care about those who have helped to spread it so far and wide and make it as populous and vast and diverse as it is today.
300 years ago, the Muslim Mughal empire of South Asia was crumbling at the hands of the European colonial powers and the Muslim empires of the Middle East lifted not a hand. If that’s too far back in time for you to consider then fast forward – in 1980 a typhoon struck Bangladesh, the world’s 3rd most populous Muslim majority nation. The outpouring of aid was trully great but I don’t seem to remember any Arabs on the ‘Concert for Bangladesh’.
In the 1980’s and 1990’s when famines struck Somalia and Ethiopia, the majority of aid came from the US and the Infidel West. In the 1990’s when Slobodan Milosovic was wagering an ethnic genocide against Bosnia’s Muslims, it was the United Nations led by the United States that stepped in to stop the fighting, not Saudi Arabia or Jordan or the others.
When a tsunami struck the South Pacific last December devastating Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim majority country, once again, the majority of aid came from the US and the Infidel West not the Mideast. And yet President Bush is lambasted for upping the ante from an initial US$35 mil (do you really think that would’ve been the final amount?!) to almost US$400 mil while the entire amount of aid given by all the governments of the countries of the Middle East was dwarfed by… wait for it… Canada. Good for you, Maple Leafs.
Look at the Darfur region in the Sudan – so much for Muslim solidarity there. Arab Muslims are killing African Muslims.
What have the people of the Middle East done for the rest of us but set up madrassas in our countries to train our boys to fight in their wars. Mind you, I’m not unsympathetic to their cause; the Palestinian people have been sh*t upon pretty d*mn badly. But just because I am Muslim does not mean I must automatically take their side, nor must I pay more attention to their struggles than the struggles of my own people.
Of course I’m brainwashed, aren’t I. I am a pawn of the Western media controlled by the Jews, right? The Jews are the smartest people in the world. How can a worldwide population of 16 million people control the US media and make the 250mil+ people of the Muslim Middle East their b*tch but by being smarter than them.
The Jews get it. Democracy is about power and those who participate have the power not those who blow themselves up because they can’t shoot straight enough to kill their enemies. American Jews participate in politics peacefully. They vote, they influence their politicians and they use democracy to help their brethren back in the home country. The Mideast and the greater Muslim world should take a lesson from the Yudhi’s.
Leave my religion out of this mess. These are ethnic and sectarian conflicts. There will be no ‘Clash of Civilisations’. Don’t call this a crisis in Islam. This is even barely a crisis given the long history of the Middle East itself. Keep this in mind – the nation of Israel is barely 60 years old. In the grand scheme of events, we often view the First Crusade as barely a blip on the historical radar. However the armies of Christendom held Jerusalem for over 100 years before the Muslims won it back. History tells us that Jerusalem will not remain forever under the control of Israel and the ‘West’ but only if/when the people of the Middle East get their act together again. All concerned would do well to consider history.
I’m Bangladeshi by descent. My people are poor. My homeland struggles just to breathe. If the governments of the Mideast want to do something for their ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’, they should stop building madrassas in our lands and help us raise crops to feed ourselves. Until then, I think I’ll pay attention to my people and they should do the same for themselves.
